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Iran's Deadline is here. What happens next? The world is watching
As a critical geopolitical deadline arrives, the world is waiting to see how Iran and the international community respond to rising tensions. This episode explores the potential consequences of this p...
Thorium energy can help Trump make peace with Iran
With thorium, America gets a permanent, verifiable, physics-enforced end to the Iranian nuclear threat that every administration since Carter promised and none delivered.
Palestine is Trump’s leverage to end the Iran War
What would happen if the U.S. were to offer to form Palestine as part of a deal to end this war?
Europe cheers Trump’s Iran ceasefire
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcome the last-minute deal to pause hostilities.
Democratic presidential candidates set to court Black voters at Sharpton’s NAN Convention
A parade of potential 2028 presidential contenders is set to take the stage this week at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) Convention for an early audition aimed at courting Black v...
Trump’s grave threats toward Iran stoke war crime debate
President Trump’s dire warnings to strike Iranian civilian targets if Tehran does not meet his calls to open the Strait of Hormuz is opening a fierce debate over whether service members will be asked ...
NATO secretary general visits Trump at volatile moment in Iran war
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s planned meeting with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday comes at a potentially explosive moment for both the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, and the f...
White House budget would cut thousands of TSA jobs: What to know
President Trump’s 2027 budget proposal would cut thousands of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) jobs in a push toward privatizing the agency founded in 2001 that is housed under the Departm...
Wisconsin city passes nation’s first anti-data center referendum
The vote suggests ballot measures could become a powerful new tool for grassroots activists seeking to block data center projects.
Free buses in New York? Even Mamdani isn’t holding his breath.
The mayor campaigned on a plan to make buses free. But it isn’t going to happen this year, he acknowledged in an interview.
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The Kenyan government from 2014 to 2024 perfectly illustrates Rothbard’s thesis: a parasitic caste that siphons public funds while cloaking predation in the rhetoric of development, security, and publ...
The Parasitic Kenyan State: Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of Power and a Decade of Economic Scandals (2014–2024)
In Anatomy of the State , Murray N. Rothbard describes the state not as a benevolent servant of society but as an organization that maintains a monopoly on force and extracts revenue through coercion ...
‘A wow moment’: Democrats make big gains in key battlegrounds
They notched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and cut into the GOP’s margins in Georgia’s reddest House district.
World exhales — a little — as US, Iran agree to ceasefire
Iran hawks in the U.S. have already started to question whether the Trump administration is taking the right approach.
Democrats build on overperformance streak in Wisconsin, Georgia elections
Democrats’ high hopes of a flip were dashed in Georgia’s special House race on Tuesday, but an overperformance in the red district — plus a landslide win for liberals in a Supreme Court race in Wiscon...
Hegseth, Caine to hold briefing Wednesday after Trump touts Iran ceasefire
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine will brief the press at the Pentagon on Wednesday at 8 a.m. EDT, after President Trump announced a two-week pause on strik...
Trump on the warpath is Rutte’s toughest test yet
With recriminations growing between the U.S. and Europe, NATO’s leader will try again to avoid an all-out rupture.
Cuellar says he will support a war powers resolution to curb Trump’s attacks on Iran
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) said Tuesday that he will back a House war powers resolution when it comes before the lower chamber again, a reversal of his previous position. In a lengthy state...
Liberal judge cruises to victory in Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Chris Taylor’s win doesn’t come as a surprise.