Politics

As mediators report a 60-day roadmap toward a final deal, Trump’s threats, Iran’s Hormuz warning, and Israel’s refusal to withdraw from Lebanon are testing whether diplomacy can survive another push toward regional war.

The horror exceeds whether Trump is stupid, ignorant, senile and/or fixated, even locked into failed “instinctual” responses. What matters is the damage done from MAGA recklessness before being defanged, decommissioned, impeached or exiled.

As U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland move toward sanctions relief, frozen assets, and a Hormuz hotline, the unresolved war in Lebanon remains the central obstacle to turning a fragile memorandum into peace.

Making War on Planet Earth, the Rest of Us, and Even Himself.

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Trump’s Middle East record reveals the short life of “America First.”

Democratic senators are pressing the president to say whether he would veto benefit cuts, as the program’s 2032 funding deadline becomes a flashpoint in the fight over retirement security.

In Iran, Trump and Netanyahu thought they could impose imperialism on the cheap — but it turns out not everyone is playing that game.

Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas.

The interim framework could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pause a war that killed thousands, but unresolved disputes over sanctions, Iran’s nuclear program, frozen assets, and Israel’s military operations leave the deal vulnerable before it is even signed.