Ben Domenech

The New Right is going nowhere — and knows it

24 April 2023 11:00 am

It is an irony of history that the bronze Statue of Freedom which stands tall atop the US Capitol dome…

Thunderdome 2024: only Trump supporters want DeSantis to get in now

21 April 2023 12:18 am

In the two months since the launch of the 2024 Thunderdome for the Republican nomination, the field has turned out…

The indictment that broke the country

6 April 2023 2:38 am

It was a bright blue-skied July day in 1861, so the Washington elite decided to have a picnic and take…

The insanity of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ led America to this point

5 April 2023 8:15 am

They have come from far and wide today to see the elephant in New York City. The #Resistance that promised…

The right’s two responses to Trump’s indictment

1 April 2023 2:27 am

The immediate reaction to the indictment of Donald Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has been a run to support…

Why Democrats shouldn’t celebrate the charges against Donald Trump

31 March 2023 5:59 pm

The indictment of former president Donald Trump as part of an investigation into hush money paid in 2016 to an ex porn…

Why using the military against Mexico’s cartels is catching on

10 March 2023 4:47 am

“Slowly at first, then all at once” is the most famous line Ernest Hemingway never wrote, and credit its fame…

Mexico has become a failed narco-state

9 March 2023 3:50 am

Over the past week, a security policy conversation that’s been taking place behind the scenes has emerged into the open.…

Can Trump’s unorthodox campaign break the mold again?

3 March 2023 4:34 am

Just based on public behavior, you’d think Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis weren’t even interested in running for the same…

TikTok may be the real test of the China Select Committee

2 March 2023 3:35 am

The primetime launch event for the House China Select Committee shows the bipartisan consensus that has formed in Washington on…

Thunderdome 2024: here come the Republican hopefuls

22 February 2023 2:59 pm

Over Presidents Day weekend, Donald J. Trump, our most beloved former president — according to him anyway — posted the…

Kamala Harris should run for Senate again in California

18 February 2023 4:35 am

Here’s an idea that won’t happen but should: if Kamala Harris really wants to reset her political future — and…

A paean to the single cat lady

16 February 2023 8:40 am

In recent years, Republican candidates and media figures have become increasingly critical of one portion of the population. At the…

A Republican presidential field with no Texans?

16 February 2023 3:54 am

The biggest open secret in Texas politics is now public knowledge. For months, it’s been known that Ted Cruz will…

Congress’s Twitter hearings show Democrats are done with free speech

10 February 2023 3:16 am

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, free speech was primarily defended by civil libertarians and the…

Biden’s State of the Union went quiet on China

9 February 2023 2:21 am

Joe Biden’s meandering State of the Union left out a great many things, as his voice toggled between insincere whisper…

So we’re canceling AI for being transphobic now

7 February 2023 4:18 am

With the dramatic expansion of artificial intelligence-generated text, the speed and frequency of the internet’s milkshake-ducking has become all the…

Trump forfeits his vaccine success to attack DeSantis

3 February 2023 3:09 am

Why would a candidate for the presidency purposefully undermine his greatest achievement in government — one that required the movement…

Here’s how extreme Democrats have gone on abortion

18 January 2023 2:14 pm

A great deal of the conversation about abortion in America is based on lies about who occupies the more extreme…

Mike Gallagher’s China challenge

17 January 2023 2:14 pm

Twenty-five years ago, bipartisan American consensus about China was built on hope, spin and money. Despite the trauma of Tiananmen…

Prince Harry and Andrew Tate are two sides of the same coin

12 January 2023 2:19 pm

On the face of things, there is little in common between Prince Harry and Andrew Tate. Yet look closer and…

What has Kevin McCarthy won?

8 January 2023 2:50 am

After Kevin McCarthy finally ascended to the heights of the speaker’s chair, it remains to be seen what he actually…

Who would be the Republican House Speaker now?

5 January 2023 7:32 am

The clash that has led to the historic abnormality of a House of Representatives without a speaker is fascinating in…

Trump’s war on pro-lifers is a sign of desperation

3 January 2023 6:26 pm

Donald Trump just made his first significant political error of the 2024 nomination battle, and it’s a doozy. After being…

A Winston Churchill Christmas

25 December 2022 3:25 am

On Christmas Eve 1941, in Washington on a diplomatic mission to organize the support of Britain’s American allies in the…