The term “October Surprise” originated against the backdrop of President Jimmy Carter’s 1980 reelection campaign. The Iranian hostage crisis overshadowed the last year of...
On June 17, 2026, President Donald Trump defended Iran’s ballistic missiles as “self-defense,” floated U.S. Space Force monitoring of Iranian uranium — should extraction...
The terms of the U.S.-Iran Memorandum are now being announced, supposedly “settling” the Iran war. Before this, the Western world had long been clear...
California’s secretary of state announced last week that the Billionaire Tax Act, an initiative supported by the state’s labor movement, has qualified for the...
