President Trump didn’t need to launch a single missile to put Iran on the back foot. Smart pressure, smart alliances, and the kind of economic and intelligence tools the other side calls “secret” did the heavy lifting. Call it diplomatic judo: use the world’s rules and our clout to flip Iran’s strengths into liabilities. If More

Mike Mazzei just put a sharp question to voters in Oklahoma: do we want a law‑and‑order governor who also defends our constitutional rights, or a candidate who treats surveillance like free parking? His recent campaign comments about Flock Safety license‑plate cameras are more than a talking point. They are a test of whether Republican leaders More

NYT national correspondent Jeremy Peters dropped a political truth bomb on HBO’s Real Time this week: House Democrats worry that a slim win could leave them “beholden to the new Squad” — a handful of Democratic Socialists with outsized veto power. CNN’s Dana Bash agreed on the panel, even pointing to House Minority Leader Hakeem More

The New Yorker Radio Hour interview that just exploded online is worth more than the usual media circus. In that longform chat, David Remnick pressed Megan Romer, the national co‑chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, on what she meant by the slogan “taxing the hell out of millionaires.” The clip that went viral shows More

Vice President J.D. Vance stood on the shop floor in Middletown and did something simple: he named names. In plain language, he told working people why their towns were hollowed out and why the money flowed to elites — and he pointed a finger straight at the Wall Street Journal, globalist policy choices, and corporate More