Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Republicans should make AOC House Speaker

25 November 2020 3:47 am

Republicans are currently on track to end up with 214 seats in the House of Representatives in January. As of…

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Who deserves blame for the Democrats’ lost House seats?

17 November 2020 7:31 am

Democratic joy at defeating Donald Trump was partially dulled by the simultaneous diminishment of the party’s House majority. As of…

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The Democrats’ civil war begins

10 November 2020 5:27 am

There is, as our presumptive and somewhat presumptuous President Malaprop told us on Sunday, a time to plant and a…

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The Democrats after Biden

15 September 2020 7:47 am

There’s been lots of speculation, even in The Spectator, about the direction of the Republican party after Trump. But less…

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Sleepy no more: Joe Biden unmasked

21 August 2020 11:22 pm

It was like an Elvis sighting. ‘WHERE’S HUNTER,’ Trump kept bellowing in his tweets. Well, there was the recently reclusive…

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Who do Democrats want to be?

20 August 2020 10:51 pm

In 2004, Democratic senator Zell Miller spoke to the Republican National Convention in New York City. Focusing on the wars…

Running against AOC

15 July 2020 1:52 am

‘Orange Man Bad’ is a fairly predominant ideological maxim of today’s American left. Many Republicans are invoking its right-wing counterpart…

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End the lockdown. Stop the riots

31 May 2020 3:10 am

These riots are not just about pent up frustration over police brutality and the murder of George Floyd under the…

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The circular failing Squad

12 March 2020 2:27 am

The history of socialism being one of high hopes and rude repudiations, everyone could see that Bernie Sanders was about…

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What stunts should we expect to see at future State of the Unions?

10 February 2020 2:47 am

The State of the Union is like that annual meeting where the boss says it was a triumphant year as…

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The white supremacy phantom

17 July 2019 6:53 pm

Well la-dee-dah. The House votes to condemn ‘President Trump for his “racist comments” about four Democratic congresswomen of color.’ First,…

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Biden and Trump converge on the middle ground

6 July 2019 3:34 am

Are both Donald Trump and Joe Biden going to run to the center? Yesterday Trump delivered a fairly anodyne speech…

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AOC: ignorant or anti-Semitic?

25 June 2019 9:43 am

When my grandmother Masha was liberated by the British Army from the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, she was 19…

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When did Congressional testimony become performance art?

13 June 2019 1:49 am

Watching parts of the Watergate hearings again recently, I was struck by just how dry they are as a spectacle.…

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The madness of the Democratic impeachment crusade

30 April 2019 1:31 am

Since the release of the Mueller report, with each passing day comes a new and increasingly strident demand to impeach…

The backlash to Trump has begun – and Republicans should not be surprised

15 September 2018 9:00 am

 Washington, DC Republicans observing a rising wave of liberal and progressive candidates, policies and election results in the United States…