Ben Domenech

El Salvador deportation is just another partisan jump ball, says poll

20 April 2025 2:00 am

The barrage of media coverage and political activity surrounding the deportation of an illegal migrant to El Salvador might suggest…

Democrats are doing themselves no favors on El Salvador

18 April 2025 9:53 pm

The political battle over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, where he is imprisoned based on a…

It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans

17 April 2025 2:55 am

It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans over the coming year and a half: tie them to Elon…

Of course Jasmine Crockett should run for president

27 March 2025 2:33 am

The leadership of the Democratic Party is as open as it has been in generations, with Nancy Pelosi occupying emerita…

The Signal leak isn’t just about Europe – it shows how powerful J.D. Vance is

26 March 2025 4:50 am

This is an extract from today’s episode of Spectator TV, with Freddy Gray and Ben Domenech, which you can find…

The Goldberg groupchat ‘glitch’ is a crisis of competence

26 March 2025 3:58 am

To be fair, Donald Trump’s team did promise to have the most transparent administration ever – a line I was…

Don’t let gambling scaremongers ruin your March Madness bracket

21 March 2025 1:20 am

Today tens of millions of Americans will happily place a billion bets they know they will lose. The tradition of…

Chuck Schumer imperiled from the left and the donor class

20 March 2025 8:49 am

The rapid nature of the turn against Chuck Schumer, ostensibly the most powerful Democrat in Washington as Senate Minority Leader,…

How Republicans should capitalize on Chuck Schumer’s weakness

18 March 2025 3:22 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s failed fiscal gambit last week proved as obvious as it was predictable. Yet Schumer’s flub…

The Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome comes home to roost

6 March 2025 6:44 am

The strangest thing happened last night: the Democratic Party, which has built its success in recent years thanks almost entirely…

‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump

4 March 2025 1:41 pm

From the moment you enter Donald J. Trump’s Oval Office, you are surrounded, not by staff or Secret Service, but…

Spectator exclusive: Don’t ban the tush-push, says Trump

28 February 2025 11:23 pm

In a wide-ranging interview with The Spectator in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Donald J. Trump weighed in on…

President Trump: Biden blames Obama for losing the election

28 February 2025 5:02 pm

In a wide-ranging conversation at the White House yesterday evening, Donald Trump was in the mood to talk about everything…

Casey DeSantis is clearly running for Florida governor

26 February 2025 6:57 am

Palm Beach, Florida Casey DeSantis is running for Florida governor. That is simply a matter of accepted knowledge for the…

Tulsi confirmed: Gabbard survives Todd Young’s attack on the Constitution

13 February 2025 4:53 am

Despite frequent claims that Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be director of national intelligence was in danger, repeated ad nauseam in…

TikTok, J.D. Vance’s new sherpa assignment

8 February 2025 5:37 am

Fresh off guiding a series of President Trump’s nominees through the high-wire act of the cabinet approval process in the…

Gabbard and RFK Jr. head closer to confirmation

5 February 2025 8:47 am

For the past month, the tone among Washington insiders was dour as it related to the confirmation prospects of Donald…

Media partisans weaponize plane crash tragedy

1 February 2025 2:42 am

For the past several years, the air traffic I see out the windows of my office has been constant —…

Will Trump’s new friends stick around?

21 January 2025 5:51 am

The temperatures at game time in Kansas City and Buffalo this weekend were in the high teens and the low…

Hegseth in the hornet’s nest

15 January 2025 7:57 am

Pete Hegseth was the first cabinet nominee to the breach, leading Donald Trump’s collection of outsiders, populists and hellraisers into…

The Democrats are changing their tune on Trump

9 January 2025 5:00 pm

The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum – and that’s…

Trump’s new world order

27 December 2024 2:45 am

Donald Trump’s ascension to his second presidency comes with a new cadre of followers and sidekicks, in the form of…

Trump is already tiring of Mike Johnson

20 December 2024 4:14 am

Mike Johnson’s status as an accidental speaker, thrust into his role in part because it was so undesirable or impossible…

Democrats are about to get a do-over for their 2017 mistakes

18 December 2024 2:24 am

Could 2025 give Democrats a do-over for how they misplayed the results of Donald Trump’s first election? Early signs point…

Trump is already driving the left crazy

7 December 2024 5:30 am

A phenomenon that will likely be with us throughout the second term of Donald Trump as president is a dynamic…