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For many years, far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz party seemed entrenched in Hungary. Orbán didn't come to power via a military coup d'état like Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile in 1973 but rather, was voted into office. Orbán, however, did everything he could to undermine Hungary's system of checks and balances, making it very difficult to replace him as prime minister.But on Sunday, April 12, Orbán was voted out of office after 16 years in Hungary's parliamentary elections, and it wasn't even close. Center-right Prime Minister

President Donald Trump's war of choice against Iran is "humiliating" the U.S. "on a daily basis," and according to lawmakers who spoke to The Hill, a new strategy is taking hold to more aggressively try to force it to an end."Since the strikes began on Feb. 28, the lower chamber has voted only twice on war power resolutions, which would require President Trump to terminate the military campaign against Tehran unless Congress explicitly approves it," The

According to former CIA director William J. Burns, the war with Iran has been plagued by President Donald Trump’s “unforced errors.” But having spent a lifetime in diplomacy — which included leading negotiations with Iran in the run-up to the nuclear deal that was later canceled by Trump — Burns says there are still three critical things the commander-in-chief can do to extract the U.S. from the "mess" in Iran.“President Trump’s war of choice with Iran has paid little attention to our past mistakes and added many of his own,” writes Burns. “He assumed tha

President Donald Trump is in a political death spiral as his disastrous Iran war poisons his brand, but don't count him out yet. Writing for The Nation, Sasha Abramsky warns that while GOP lawmakers take "baby steps" away from their unraveling strongman, "his authoritarian ambitions have not yet been corralled."For the first time in both of his administrations, Trump has lost his stranglehold on the average MAGA voter. It happens as Trump’s favorability rating cratered to the mid-to-low 30s on specific issues.

Donald Trump is uniquely dangerous among modern presidents, one ex-DHS chief warned for The i Paper, as he has a "very real" obsession with deploying nuclear weapons against his adversaries. Miles Taylor previously worked as the chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term, and became famous for penning an anonymous New York Times op-ed about being part of the "Resistance Within the Trump Administration." Sinc

The recent publication of confidential Supreme Court memoranda by The New York Times has brought to light a pivotal moment in the court’s history. “The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery,” wrote reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak. “Until now.”Originally coined by legal scholar William Baude, the term “shadow docket” refers to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, which, as Baude wrote, includes “a range of o

Pentagon staffers are grappling with a new wave of fear over potential firings, with sources telling Axios that "petty, high-school or middle-school drama" has everyone on edge.On Friday morning, Axios released a new report describing the tense atmosphere within the Department of Defense, following the recent ousters of Navy Secretary John Phelan and Army Chief of Staff Genereal Randy George, among other high

Tucker Carlson has a long history of praising U.S. President Donald Trump publicly but reportedly saying disparaging things about him behind closed doors. Recently, however, the far-right podcaster and former Fox News host has been publicly giving Trump vehement criticism because of his war against Iran, attacking it as a major betrayal of the "America First" movement and even apologizing for endorsing Trump in the United States' 2024 presidential election.Carlson decla

President Donald Trump's overnight posting spree is prompting questions from those online about his mental stability. Trump's final post on TruthSocial came about 2:45 a.m. EDT with a post about conspiracy theories around the "birth tourism industry." It isn't unusual for Trump to go off on a TruthSocial posting spree, and it's the second time in a week. The spree began about midnight EDT and lasted over an hour. For a moment it seemed like he might stop, but about 90 minutes later he began sharing content from filmmaker Clint Eastwood. It was just one of 16 posts that ranged in attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinto

One thing that the ongoing spat between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV did was expose the hollow core of the Christian nationalism in his administration, one columnist argued on Thursday. The New York Times' David French wrote that the spat between Trump and Pope Leo "may be the most important theological debate of my lifetime" for revealing how t