Ben Domenech

Do not under any condition let Liz Cheney babysit your kids

23 October 2024 6:38 am

I don’t understand why Liz Cheney thinks we would trust Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff with our children when we…

Unpacking the race for the US Senate

22 October 2024 12:40 am

In the middle of the most chaotic presidential election in the modern era, with its death race through senility, assassination…

The Big Dog unleashed on immigration

17 October 2024 2:02 am

The Big Dog has returned to the campaign trail, and he’s up to his old tricks. No, not those tricks — the…

Does Joe Biden want Kamala Harris to lose?

8 October 2024 12:49 am

On Friday, two minutes after Kamala Harris walked on stage at a campaign event in Detroit, Joe Biden decided to…

A debate night for Vance to remember and for Walz to forget

2 October 2024 2:42 pm

It’s not always easy to tell who wins a political debate. Sometimes performances need time for people to process them…

Tonight’s vice-presidential debate might actually matter

2 October 2024 2:36 am

Vice-presidential debates rarely matter in politics except as fodder for jokes and, for today’s lazier commentariat, memes of the lesser variety.…

Gretchen Whitmer’s struggle shows Democrats’ Israel problem isn’t going away

25 September 2024 1:24 am

Democrats have an Israel problem that isn’t going away any time soon. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer illustrated why this weekend…

Trump and Kamala are competing over who’s more online

17 September 2024 1:43 am

The messaging in the 2024 election has devolved into a contest to determine which campaign is more online, to their…

Tim Walz’s Minnesota vibes

12 September 2024 11:35 pm

The first thing a Minnesota political activist tells me when I ask about Tim Walz is this: when he gets…

Kamala has more to lose in the debate than Trump

10 September 2024 1:10 am

The Kamala Harris campaign team apparently based their debate strategy assuming that ABC News would prove as pliable and willing…

Tucker Carlson is just asking questions

4 September 2024 10:49 pm

Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. Questions like: what if Andrew Tate’s camgirl harem is actually the height of masculinity?…

How RFK Jr.’s looming exit could rain on Kamala’s parade

22 August 2024 6:44 am

There are multiple reports, still unconfirmed at the moment but from reliable sources, that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will end his independent…

A Joe Biden convention with Kamala Harris layered over it

21 August 2024 12:48 am

Chicago Even for someone used to the idea of mass media lies, the dichotomy between the way the 2024 DNC…

Kamala’s DNC team is saying the quiet part loud

20 August 2024 5:05 am

From the moment Kamala Harris ascended to the status of 2024’s bringer of joy, the vice president has navigated a…

Kamala shoots the moon

19 August 2024 12:55 pm

So how exactly does a political candidate who fell on her face in the most dramatic way possible, whose campaign…

The myth of a vibes election

10 August 2024 12:00 am

I’ve seen it repeated numerous times, most recently by our friends over at the Free Press: 2024 is a “vibes…

Tim Walz is the real-life definition of an MSNBC dad

7 August 2024 9:39 pm

Well, we knew it would only take so long for even a media-ensconced, Hollywood-produced, consultant stage-managed Kamala Harris to make…

Mark Kelly is Kamala’s best choice — and it’s not close

24 July 2024 12:43 am

Kamala Harris’s ascension to the Democratic nomination has been rapid and energizing for a demoralized party that had, in some…

Biden’s media sycophants are the biggest losers of him stepping aside

22 July 2024 5:34 am

The speed at which politics moves in 2024 is enough to give the American citizenry a massive case of whiplash.…

Trump has reshaped the GOP in the last decade. What comes next?

19 July 2024 6:30 am

From the outset, it was inconceivable. The idea that Donald J. Trump, limousine liberal, famed for bankruptcies both financial and…

The intellectual journey of JD Vance

19 July 2024 3:18 am

For someone who is not yet 40, the path JD Vance walked to become the next potential vice president of…

JD Vance is a loyal Maga man

16 July 2024 8:02 am

The most surprising aspect of Donald Trump’s choice of JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate is how unsurprising…

Trump shouldn’t make the mistake of embracing false unity

16 July 2024 1:00 am

In the wake of his brush with death in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump appears to be indicating that he is…

The Trump shooting is an indictment of the national mood

14 July 2024 12:22 pm

It was a long, hot, steamy day in Butler, Pennsylvania when someone crawled onto a rooftop that had baked in…

A Kamala Harris-Gretchen Whitmer ticket could help Democrats avoid a landslide

11 July 2024 12:05 am

The mood among Washington Democrats is grim. Understanding that Joe Biden is headed toward defeat, they’ve also come to the…