Washington is in a deep freeze
As the Potomac ices over for the first time in decades, Washington is in a deep freeze. Democrats are about…
Far from all Americans support Trump’s advance on Greenland
President Trump isn’t ushering in a golden age but rather an age of gold. The precious metal has hit an…
Trump’s Greenland caper will heighten inflation
On February 24, Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union speech of his second term as president.…
Venezuela has left Trump feeling cocky
There was no dancing, let alone prancing, in the Brooklyn courtroom as former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was arraigned on…
Maduro appears in NY court as Venezuela replaces him
There was no dancing, let alone prancing, in the Manhattan courtroom as former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was arraigned on…
Why does Trump care about Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’?
In Ukraine, as elsewhere in Europe, Donald Trump’s new national security strategy is being met with a mixture of incredulity…
Trump is running out of tricks to prop up the American economy
President Donald Trump dozed off during his cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Who could blame him? Listening to Secretary of State…
Donald Trump’s affordability blues
So President Donald Trump may have dozed off during his cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Who could blame him? Listening to Secretary of State Marco Rubio…
Trump blames Biden for shooting of National Guardsmen
In response to the attack on Thanksgiving eve by a suspected Afghan national upon two West Virginia National Guardsmen, President…
Elon Musk’s Doge was a damp squib
Doge has been Doge’d. Elon Musk’s once fearsome US Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has been shut down eight months…
Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about Epstein
The contrast could hardly have been starker. As Donald Trump palled around with Mohammed bin Salman in the newly gilded Oval Office, Congress was voting on…
The Epstein files continue to haunt Donald Trump
The main thing that has made the Epstein files seem politically (as opposed to morally) significant is that Donald Trump…
Trump is creating a political Frankenstein
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump depicted himself as synonymous with winning. “We’re gonna win so much,” he said, “you…
Is Trump becoming a lame duck?
No sooner did Democrats in the Senate reach a deal to end the federal government shutdown than a frenzy of…
Trump’s battle against the Democrats is only just beginning
No sooner did Democrats in the American Senate reach a deal to end the federal government shutdown than a frenzy…
Is Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend plan loopy?
It’s becoming increasingly taxing for Donald Trump to defend his tariff policy. His latest gambit is to float the prospect…
Who will replace Pelosi in Republican demonology?
Nancy Pelosi’s career is ending as it began. She entered Congress in 1986 during the Reagan administration and is ending…
How Dick Cheney made Donald Trump
Former vice president Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at age 84, loathed Donald Trump. In a 2022 election campaign ad for…
‘Nuking’ the filibuster would only aid Democrats
Donald Trump keeps going nuclear. First it was his demand on Thursday that the Pentagon resume nuclear testing. Now he’s…
A rare earths deal is China’s gift to Trump
Donald Trump went nuclear. Before his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at an air base in South Korea, he ordered the…
So much for Trump’s peace push
Here we go again. Now that Russian president Vladimir Putin has resumed his bombardment of Ukraine, President Donald Trump is responding by…
Trump, the foreign policy president?
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine continued his excellent sartorial adventure at the White House, appearing in an elegantly cut black…
Has Trump fallen into Putin’s trap – again?
Sorry, Volodymyr. There won’t be any Tomahawk missiles headed to Ukraine now that president Vladimir Putin of Russia has talked on…
Donald Trump’s finest hour
This is Donald Trump’s finest hour. Speaking in the Knesset on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called him Israel’s “greatest…
Has Trump won peace – or a pause?
Donald Trump is on a roll. He not only wrangled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu into submission, but also the terrorist…
