Donald Trump
Pelosi goes full Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi skipped the sugarcoating and punched the President in the gut on Monday. Trump had announced to the…
Giving insects a bad name
Heteropoda davidbowie is a species of huntsman spider. Though rare, it has been found in parts of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia…
Oil on troubled waters
The US-Saudi alliance is crumbling
Oil on troubled waters: the US-Saudi alliance is crumbling
Donald Trump said in October 2018 that the Saudi royal family ‘wouldn’t last two weeks’ without American military support. Last…
Has coronavirus killed the Democrats’ healthcare referendum?
Late last December, Democrats were heading into the homestretch of their presidential primary optimistic that although they faced an internal…
Newsflash: Trump insults everyone
Want to know the worst kept secret in America? Every time President Trump and the White House Press Corps do…
Hiding Biden
The less voters see the Democratic nominee, the more they like him
Portrait of the Week
Home The government put its mind to the puzzle of how to get people back to work. Draft advice was…
The coronavirus catalyst
‘The normal grease of politics is not there,’ bemoans one sociable cabinet minister. Certainly, the whispered conversations in corridors that…
Get ready for the corona coup
House Democrats, flummoxed by their failed attempt to remove President Trump earlier this year, are gearing up for another round…
The 2020 question: which candidate will stand up to China?
Imagine you are in your late thirties living in Ohio working at a steel or other manufacturing plant in the…
Portrait of the Week
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, returned to work at Downing Street after recovering from his Covid-19 sickness. Speaking outside…
Are we now in a Fourth Turning Crisis?
Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe released The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy that articulated a roughly 80-year…
Disinfectant Donnie
Do you know what the real ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is? No, not the fauxtraged shrieks of liberals at everything the…
Portrait of the Week
Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…
Why are people taking Trump’s disinfectant comments seriously?
Every time you think Donald Trump has lost his talent for making people’s heads explode, he somehow excels himself. His…
The Russia probe was mishandled worse than anyone could have imagined
It’s been over three years since the FBI first launched its investigation into an alleged conspiracy between the 2016 Trump…
National Review: for Trump in 2020?
Does President Trump have a new favorite magazine? At yesterday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing, Trump took a bit of time…
Will the coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?
Back on March 12, I noted in this space that one of the most potent effects of our latest Chinese…
High Life
Gstaad So the days — and months — drift by. This once peaceful Alpine town is packed with rich refugees…
Who will win the corona wars?
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. The Covid-19 pandemic came along just as…
Saudi may have won an oil truce – but a greater conflict now looms
For the first time in months, the coronavirus panic was briefly demoted as the main news story on Sunday when…
High life
Aristophanes was a comic genius long before the Marx Brothers, but he also gave good advice to the Athenians: stop…
New York Post and Washington Examiner fall for Tom Brady Twitter hoax
Cockburn doesn’t pay all much attention to football, but he was surprised to read on Wednesday that former New England…
The three reasons Bernie Sanders couldn’t beat Joe Biden
He took nearly a month to assess the state of his campaign after a whopping 15-point defeat in the crucial…
