From 50% tariff threats on China to a full naval blockade, Trump has deployed every economic weapon in his arsenal against Tehran. Iran is still at the table — on its own terms. Donald Trump built his second-term political identity on the power of economic coercion. Tariffs brought China back to the table. Tariffs extracted…

Three byelection wins, five floor crossings, and an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver have handed Mark Carney something that narrowly eluded him at the ballot box: a majority government built to resist Donald Trump. When Mark Carney stepped in front of cameras Monday night to claim victory in three federal byelections, he was not just celebrating a…

With the ceasefire expiring in days, three nations are racing to narrow the gaps on uranium enrichment and Hormuz tolls — who has leverage and what a last-minute deal would require. Seven days. That is what separates the world from the expiration of the only thing currently standing between the United States and a resumed…

The President spent years attacking the JCPOA as the “worst deal ever made.” Now, with Vice President Vance in Islamabad and Iran at the table, the question haunting Republican hawks is whether Trump is about to sign something worse. For eight years, Donald Trump made the Obama Iran nuclear deal a centerpiece of his political…

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called it a “make-or-break moment.” The Council on Foreign Relations called it a “standoff growing by the hour.” Foreign Policy ran the headline: “US-Iran Peace Talks Risk Collapsing.” As Vice President JD Vance touched down in Islamabad on April 11, 2026, to lead the highest-level US-Iran talks since the 1979…

At 1 a.m. on April 7, 2026, Donald Trump posted a Truth Social message demanding that the Supreme Court of the United States “study the Mark Levin Show” before ruling on birthright citizenship. The nine justices on the nation’s highest court did not, as far as anyone knows, tune in. But the midnight outburst told…

On the morning of April 10, 2026, a US Air Force aircraft carrying Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner touched down in Islamabad, Pakistan. The delegation’s mission: negotiate a permanent end to a war that has killed thousands, shut down 20% of the world’s oil supply, and brought…

On the morning of April 5, 2026, Donald Trump posted a characteristically blunt warning on Truth Social: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.” Forty-eight hours later, the war paused.…

At 8 a.m. on April 7, 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” if Iran didn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his self-imposed deadline. By 6:32 p.m. — ninety minutes before that deadline — Iran blinked. A two-week ceasefire was announced,…

It has happened with China. With North Korea. With the Taliban. With Canada and Mexico. With tariffs. Now with Iran. Donald Trump runs the same four-step playbook every time — and every time, the world acts surprised when it works. WASHINGTON — Watch it long enough and the pattern becomes impossible to miss. Step one:…