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Big Guy- SportsFIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off June 11 with 11 U.S. host cities, 104 matches, and 48 teams. Three months out, some cities are locked in. Others are still figuring out how to get fans to the stadium.
Big Guy- SportsFive days after Venezuela's stunning 3-2 championship win over Team USA, Big Guy breaks down the most emotional WBC finish in tournament history — the nine-inning masterclass, the three hits that ended America's night, and what this title means for a country that lives and breathes baseball.
Ella Smart- PoliticsThe Senate has voted down three War Powers Resolutions in two weeks. Senator Graham's constitutional argument is actually sound — which is exactly why it should worry every conservative who believes in limited government.
Jack Smart- PoliticsThree weeks into the US-Israeli war on Iran, 13 Americans are dead, gas is approaching $4 a gallon, and the administration still can't articulate an endgame. Democrats are calling it illegal. They're not wrong.
Ella Smart- PoliticsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Iran's navy, air force, and missile capabilities are decimated after 15,000+ targets struck. Democrats want a congressional debate. The data suggests the administration's approach is working — and that's the story the press isn't telling.
Ella Smart- PoliticsThree weeks into the US-Israel operation against Iran, the first invoice is in: $11.3 billion in the first six days alone. Republicans want to pay it. But between fiscal hawks, procedural constraints, and unified Democratic opposition, getting there is considerably harder than it looks.
Jack Smart- PoliticsThree weeks into an unauthorized war with Iran, the Trump administration is preparing to send Congress a $50 billion funding request for Operation Epic Fury. Democrats have a simple answer: no authorization, no check. This isn't obstructionism. It's the Constitution.
Big Guy- SportsVenezuela's stunning elimination of defending champion Japan reshapes the WBC semifinal picture. Team USA beat Canada cleanly behind Logan Webb, but the upcoming matchup is the real test — and the pressure is entirely on the Americans.
Jack Smart- PoliticsThree weeks into the Iran war, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News he is going back to South Carolina and asking them to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East — a man with none of his own. Congress voted twice to look away. Fifty-six percent of Americans oppose the war. And the working families bearing the actual cost never got a vote on it.
Ella Smart- PoliticsThree weeks into the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, congressional Republicans are confronting an uncomfortable truth: supporting a president does not require abandoning the constitutional principles you built your career on. It is a distinction some are having trouble making.
Ella Smart- PoliticsSenate Republicans voted 47-53 to defeat a war powers resolution last week, with only Rand Paul breaking ranks. As the Iran conflict hits $11 billion in its first week, the question isn't whether conservatives support the military campaign — it's whether they're making the honest case for why they should.
Jack Smart- PoliticsSix Democratic senators are forcing a public reckoning on Trump's Iran war — one that's consumed over $11 billion without a single congressional vote. Meanwhile, economist Paul Krugman asks an uncomfortable question about who funded the president who launched this war, and whether they're satisfied with their investment.
Jack Smart- PoliticsWhen the War Powers Resolution failed by seven votes last week, four House Democrats handed Trump the margin he needed to keep Operation Epic Fury running without congressional restraint. Now a competing "compromise" resolution would authorize the bombing for 30 days before asking any questions — which is, conveniently, exactly the timeline the Pentagon says it needs. With 74% of Democratic voters opposing the war and progressive groups promising primary challenges, the party faces a defining choice: real opposition, or a permission slip with extra paperwork.
Ella Smart- PoliticsWhen the War Powers Resolution failed 212-219 in the House and 47-53 in the Senate, four House Democrats and one Senate Democrat broke ranks with their caucus to vote with Republicans. Now progressive groups are threatening to primary them for it. This is what the Democratic Party's dysfunction looks like up close — and it explains, better than anything else, why Republicans hold the foreign policy high ground right now.
Jack Smart- PoliticsOperation Epic Fury is burning through roughly $1 billion a day, and the White House is drafting a $50 billion supplemental funding request. Before Congress writes that check, someone should do the math: $50 billion would extend enhanced ACA subsidies for a year, restore nutrition assistance to millions, and expand Medicaid coverage to nearly 2 million people. Jack Smart does the arithmetic Washington doesn't want you to see.
Ella Smart- PoliticsAs Operation Epic Fury burns through standoff munitions at Desert Storm rates, defense analysts are flagging what five years of tariff-driven reshoring didn't fix: a weapons industrial base too structurally fragile to sustain high-intensity conflict. Ella Smart argues that economic nationalists who championed import tariffs need to ask whether the policy produced outcomes — or just brochures.
Jack Smart- PoliticsOperation Striking Storm deployed more than 5,000 U.S. troops to Israel this week — America's largest Middle East military action since Iraq. Congress was informed, not consulted. Progressive Democrats are calling it what it is: an unauthorized war. And they're right. Jack Smart examines the progressive revolt, the Democratic Party's uncomfortable silence, and why the constitutional question matters more than the market reaction.
Ella Smart- PoliticsOperation Striking Storm deployed 5,000+ U.S. troops to Israel this week — the most significant American military action in the Middle East since Iraq. While the press fixates on tactics and international reaction, the underreported story is domestic: the conservative coalition of evangelical voters, national security hawks, and the MAGA base that gave Trump the political runway to act. Ella Smart examines how that coalition held, what the markets are signaling, and what conservatives should watch next.
Ella Smart- PoliticsEight days into Operation Epic Fury, the U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran's nuclear infrastructure is producing real results — six American service members are dead in Kuwait, the Iranian regime is shaking at a 44% collapse probability, and Congress has said absolutely nothing about whether it authorized any of this. Ella Smart argues that conservatives who care about limited government cannot celebrate the policy win while ignoring the constitutional process that was bypassed to achieve it.
Jack Smart- PoliticsFor decades, the right had the transnational infrastructure — think tanks, conferences, policy networks. Now a Zohran Mamdani aide is advising British progressives, and something that looks a lot like a progressive international is quietly taking shape.
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