When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the global left dismissed it as an American aberration — a one-time populist tantrum that would be corrected by the next cycle and contained within American borders. Ten years later, the movement that started with one election in one country has spread to governments on three continents, and this weekend it assembled in Budapest to make that fact impossible to ignore. CPAC Hungary 2026 opened on March 22nd with a video address from President Trump delivering his "complete and total endorsement" of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary's April elections. ...Continue reading

Mojtaba Khamenei became the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran on March 9, 2026, inheriting the position from his father Ali following the elder Khamenei's death in an airstrike. He is 56 years old, presents himself as a devout hardline cleric, has close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and has been on the U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions list since 2019. He also owns approximately 11 luxury mansions on Bishops Avenue in London — one of the most expensive streets in the world, known internationally as "Billionaires' Row" — along with two apartments in Kensington, a luxury ...Continue reading

American universities have spent the past two years debating which speakers to allow on campus, which books to assign, and which ideological frameworks are acceptable in the classroom. One conversation they haven't been having: whether the children of the men running the Islamic Republic should be shaping the minds of American students. A new wave of reporting — led by the New York Post and the Daily Wire — answers the question of whether that's actually happening. It is. At some of the most prominent universities in the country. Here are the names. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani was an assistant professor at ...Continue reading

One month ago, the national average for a gallon of gas was $2.92. Today it is $3.84. The Iran war's disruption of Strait of Hormuz energy flows has pushed oil above $107 a barrel and sent energy costs climbing at a pace that American families feel every time they pull up to a pump. Trump's response was not a task force. It was not a speech about "complex global factors." It was a 60-day executive waiver of the Jones Act — a century-old shipping law — combined with eased sanctions on Venezuelan oil and an explicit order to open American ...Continue reading

There is a word in entertainment circles now. It is a verb. The verb is "Markled." It means: to charm your way into a lucrative institutional relationship, make yourself impossible to work with, and leave the institution holding the bag while you give interviews about how unfairly you were treated. Netflix just got Markled. The streaming giant that handed Harry and Meghan a reported $100 million deal to produce content — apparently on the theory that two people who walked away from the most famous family on earth would make great business partners — has quietly ended its partnership with ...Continue reading