The IRGC is willing to let the ceasefire collapse and resume fighting the Americans because the American press tells them they are winning. One of the reasons the IRGC thinks it's winning? Because of the Western press.
On the morning of the Unite the Right rally, I lumbered down the staircase of a Catskills Airbnb rented for a bachelor party to learn that only hours before, a gang of white nationalists stormed the University of Virginia campus wielding Tiki torches and chanting, 'Jews will not replace us.'
Murphy's tweet clearly appeared to be a sarcastic jab at what appeared to be a failure of the U.S. blockade, many of his critics quickly accused him of rooting for Iran.
Analilia Mejia's win with a nearly 20-point margin over Hathaway is significant, indicating strong voter support for Democrats in the current political climate.
We are in the middle of at least four unravelings: The unraveling of the postwar international order. The unraveling of domestic tranquility wherever Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents bring down their jackboots. The further unraveling of the democratic order, with attacks on Federal Reserve independence and excuse the pun trumped-up prosecutions of political opponents. Finally, the unraveling of President Donald Trump's mind.
"It has been baked in that the states are largely in charge of the election process, and that the federal government can set or override rules for that process if they wish, but it's very specific that that has to be done through Congress and not through lone executive action," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional and law of democracy scholar at Loyola Law School who was a non-partisan policy adviser for Democracy and Voting Rights during the Biden White House.
