Image courtesy of Student News Agency, SNN.ir There are days in Washington where the news writes its own punchline. Sunday was one of those days. The New York Post reported that President Trump was briefed last week by U.S. intelligence on Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei — the man the IRGC installed to replace his father after Operation Epic Fury ended Ali Khamenei's reign. The intelligence report contained a detail so perfectly ironic that Trump reportedly burst out laughing on the spot. Others in the room joined him. One senior intelligence official, according to sources, has not stopped laughing ...Continue reading

This past weekend on CNN, Pete Buttigieg — former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, former Secretary of Transportation, and current professional cable news guest — sat down with Jake Tapper to deliver his verdict on the Iran war. "This is clearly amateur hour at the Pentagon and in the White House," Buttigieg announced, without apparent awareness of what those words sound like coming from him specifically. He called Trump "unfit to be the Commander-in-Chief." He said the administration was treating the war "like a video game." He accused Trump of "raising money over the bodies of America's war dead" because ...Continue reading

The orders are starting to sound familiar. Work from home. Don't travel. Cut back on driving. Conserve fuel. Schools closed. Meetings online only. You've heard all of this before. The difference this time is that there is no virus. There is no pandemic. There is no CDC guidance or Dr. Fauci press conference. What's driving governments around the world to reach for the same toolkit they used in 2020 is something far older and far simpler: they are running out of fuel. The Iran war has shut down commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through ...Continue reading

There are hard deadlines in government and soft deadlines. Most of Washington's funding fights involve soft deadlines — continuing resolutions, extensions, last-minute deals that kick the can another few months. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is not a soft deadline. It starts in June. Sixteen American cities. Millions of international visitors. And as of today, the Department of Homeland Security has been in a partial shutdown for 28 days — because Senate Democrats blocked the funding bill over a fight about keeping ICE away from polling places, despite insisting illegal aliens don't vote in elections. Here is what that shutdown ...Continue reading

In June of 2022, the United States recorded 9.1 percent inflation — the highest 12-month price increase since November 1981. That number belongs to Joe Biden. It is the economic legacy of his energy policies, his spending policies, and his "transitory" dismissal of the inflation warning signs that economists were raising a full year before the peak. In January of 2026, inflation is running at 2.4 percent. That number belongs to Donald Trump. This is the most powerful economic comparison in American politics right now — and it is being dramatically under-deployed by every Republican who should be making it. ...Continue reading

For years Americans were told the chaos at the southern border was mainly about migrants looking for work or claiming asylum. That story is comforting. Unfortunately, intelligence warnings suggest something far more dangerous may be riding the same smuggling routes. According to multiple security analysts and intelligence sources, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — specifically its notorious Quds Force, the regime’s foreign covert operations arm — may be exploiting cartel-controlled trafficking networks to move operatives into the United States. In other words, the same cartels moving migrants across the border could also be transporting agents working for one of the ...Continue reading