The episode covers a temporary de-escalation in U.S.-Iran hostilities after nearly two weeks of reciprocal attacks, ongoing economic impacts of the conflict on global oil prices, the growing political salience of child care affordability in the U.S. election, a suspected Islamist terror a
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