Jul 15, 2026 · 50 min · 10 segments
Topics covered in today’s Politics Chat: U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding withdrawal, Strait of Hormuz control, Iranian port blockade, cargo transit fees, War Powers Act notification, ICE…
Heather Cox RichardsonHost[gentle music] Welcome to Politics Chat, in which I try to answer your questions about modern politics.
[gentle music] There's a bunch of stuff going on, but, um, but it all seems to go around a couple of, of general themes that...
And, and I'm happy to, to try and cover a lot of them, um, a- and throw comments, and I'll try and look for, for things in the comments that you might like me to cover as well.
Because we're in that summer moment when there's less sort of, like, emergency breaking news and more kind of people taking a breath and trying to figure out what comes next.
And that's not to say that there's not important stuff happening, but often, you know, there's sort of breathless stuff in, in the middle of the year when people are trying to get through with things.
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