Spectator exclusive: Don’t ban the tush-push, says Trump
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
A phenomenon that will likely be with us throughout the second term of Donald Trump as president is a dynamic…
Hunter’s pardon is the legacy of Joe Biden’s weakness
So Joe Biden decided to go out by doing the thing. And why not? For all the people who praised…
Gaetz pulls out
In Washington, you don’t name anyone disruptive or potentially transformative to your administration without dealing with flack from the Senate. They…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the DEIty
A decade ago, in June 2014, the Atlantic published a cover story with a simple declarative title: “The Case for…
Trump 47 is transforming what a cabinet means
The reaction in most elected Republican circles to the naming of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for the most prominent positions…
The end of NeverTrump
Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the 2024 election saw the end of a host of political assumptions — about the…
Thune rises to the top
It took John Thune just two ballots to get the job of the new majority leader of the Senate, replacing…
Trump’s very catholic cabinet
Donald Trump’s second term administration is taking shape, and thus far it’s turned out to be impressively Catholic in its…
The winners and losers of the 2024 election
Every election has winners and losers that extend beyond the politicians themselves, but in this particularly unique situation, the sheer…
It’s a grim start to the night for Kamala Harris
This is a grim night so far, in terms of every piece of data that we have about how Kamala…
The meme election comes to a close
For most of American history, elections took a long time. Many of the gaps that still exist today between when…
Trump’s closing argument is for the faithful supporter
For the past several months, it’s been well apparent that Donald Trump is winning this election. There are numerous factors…
