The Week: Socialism Spreads West

• The way the DSA is going, Graham Platner can restore his tattoo.

• Cease-fire negotiations continue between the United States and Iran. In the weeks since both countries signed a memorandum of understanding, Iranian drones have struck a Singapore-flagged container ship and a Greek-owned oil tanker. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its naval and aerospace forces also carried out a joint missile and drone operation targeting U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain. Despite all this, President Donald Trump is an optimist. “They’re agreeing to everything that I want, and they have to,” he said of the Iranians. “Otherwise, we just go back and do what we have to do.” But the previous night, on Fox News, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, “Iran has not been cooperative at all yet.” The Islamic regime is about as untrustworthy a negotiating partner as you can find, but we may be proving a confusing one.

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• The way the DSA is going, Graham Platner can restore his tattoo.

• Cease-fire negotiations continue between the United States and Iran. In the weeks since both countries signed a memorandum of understanding, Iranian drones have struck a Singapore-flagged container ship and a Greek-owned oil tanker. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its naval and aerospace forces also carried out a joint missile and drone operation targeting U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain. Despite all this, President Donald Trump is an optimist. “They’re agreeing to everything that I want, and they have to,” he said of the Iranians. “Otherwise, we just go back and do what we have to do.” But the previous night, on Fox News, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, “Iran has not been cooperative at all yet.” The Islamic regime is about as untrustworthy a negotiating partner as you can find, but we may be proving a confusing one.