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The landslide defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was not just a repudiation of his authoritarian rule and a blow to the global far-right movement. According to the New York Times Editorial Board, it also revealed a "road map" for toppling President Donald Trump.Orbán has been a close ally to the MAGA movement in the U.S., so much so that Vice President JD Vance was dispatched to Hungary to campaign on his behalf. The outgoing prime minister's efforts to exploit the judiciary, redraw electoral maps in his favor, target immigrants and

A grudge against former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an overall contempt for the environment may motivate President Donald Trump’s war against the Presidio Trust, a 1,500-acre northern California recreation hub that includes Disney Family Museum, Industrial Light & Magic and many non-profits.Yet according to the San Francisco Gate's Travel Editor Silas Valentino, Trump’s grudge will primarily hurt the more than 9 million people who visit the Presidio annually.“The 1,500-acre recreation hub is one of the country’s greatest public parks,” Valentino wrote on Monday. “I

President Donald Trump wants Americans to believe blockading access to Iranian ports will compel Iran’s government to admit defeat in the ongoing war, but experts see a flaw he will not acknowledge.“A former [President Joe] Biden-era Pentagon official said the U.S. is trying to turn the tables on Iran, which has blockaded the strait for weeks during the U.S.-Israeli war with the country, creating a bottleneck that roiled global markets and strained the economy,” reported CNBC’s Garrett Downs on Monday. Even though the blockade is intended to compel Iran’s leaders to back down and acquiesce to U.S.

President Donald Trump’s prosecution of the Iran war reveals that he does not understand his own voters, revealed an expert on Arab American affairs.Dr. James J. Zogby, president of a non-profit advocacy group called the Arab American Institute, reached this conclusion in a Monday post analyzing multiple polls. Zogby’s brother is famous pollster John Zogby, and Zogby’s Arab American Institute advocates for Arab American rights. (Iran, though majority Muslim like millions of Arabs, is predominantly ethnically Persian.)“With the apparent collapse of the US talks with

Smack dab in the Rust Belt city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the Movie Tavern Trexlertown is a welcome hybrid of multiplex and gastropub. Yet even though I was there to join a large audience to experience a sci-fi masterpiece called “Project Hail Mary,” I allowed my curiosity to briefly lead me on a tangent about a film with a drastically — um — different quality.“Was there anything like these crowds for ‘Melania’?” I asked the employee who sold me my ticket. They bristled at the title; I clarified that I was a film critic seeking demographic information and not a supporter of President Donald Trump. They relaxed, then answered: “Not a lot of people saw that, but a few did.” “Melania” viewers tended to be groups of senior citizens turning out to support Trump.I cannot imagi

Since President Donald Trump launched war against Iran at the end of February, his administration has been fighting on four main battlefields. The first is the conflict itself, which has inflicted violence across the Gulf and wider Middle East. The second is economic, as Trump has frantically tried to keep the financial costs of the war from hurting him politically. The third is diplomatic, with the White House alternating between criticizing and appealing to allies who have distanced themselves from the war. The fourth, however, is the theater where Trump typically fares best, but has been soundly bested by Iran: the realm of social media. Since the earliest days of the war, social media has played a key role in how both the Iranian regime and the Trump Administration have attempted to control the narrativ

Catholics are by and large reacting very negatively to President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on Pope Leo XIV.Despite denying reports that Trump officials tried to bully a Vatican representative several months ago, on Sunday the president posted a lengthy diatribe lambasting the Pope. Denouncing him as “Weak on Crime” and “Weak on Nuclear Weapons,” Trump included an AI-generated image of himself as a Jesus-like figure healing the sick with patriotic iconography in the background. He later

Sir Edward Davey, a UK Member of Parliament who serves as the leader of the Liberal Democrats, blasted President Donald Trump on Monday, and warned that Britain’s King Charles should not visit the American president later this month.Quoting President Trump’s recent threat to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” Sir Davey called the statement, “words I never thought I would hear from an American president,” and “a stark reminder of how reckless, immoral, and completely outside the bounds of international law this president is.”Davey declared Trump “no friend of the United Kingdom” and “no leader

The Republican Party has been bracing for harsh losses in the upcoming midterm elections, but according to a leading political report, the party's worst electoral nightmare, which could spell the real end of the Trump administration, is now a few steps closer to reality.Ever since Trump's mounting unpopularity became unavoidable last year, the GOP has been predicted to lose its House majority in the 2026 midterms, especially since the margin was already razor-thin. The odds have been much less dire for the Senate, with the set of races this year considered unfavorable for Democrats. It will be especially difficul

President Donald Trump is pressuring a leading inter-American human rights watchdog to stop an investigation into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s illegal attacks on supposed enemy boats.By allegedly engaging in these extrajudicial killings in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, Trump has aroused the concern of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), according to an article The Intercept senior reporter Nick Turse published on Monday."What it is is murder,” Juan Méndez, an Argentine lawyer known for his work on behalf of political prisoners, told Turse. “You're de