Joe Biden
A Trump comeback? Don’t bet on it
He did it. Donald Trump made it through four years, not an accomplishment many of his detractors thought he would…
Good luck to Joe Biden. He’ll need it
It’s official: the inauguration is over, the speeches have been given, and political power in the United States has been…
Joe Biden’s plan to keep the Democrats in power
Today the Trump administration ends. The first time a President has failed to win re-election since 1992. The first time…
Trump’s exit is an opportunity to ditch the nuclear ‘football’
Among the most alarming episodes during Donald J. Trump’s tumultuous final weeks in the White House was an announcement by…
What will Joe Biden do about North Korea?
Kim Jong-un marked the new year by treating North Koreans to several days of lengthy speeches followed by a display…
Brexit Britain’s new place in the world
What will Brexit Britain do differently? This is going to be the most important question in our politics for the…
Presidential dogs
From the moment Donald Trump’s presidency began, he was lacking something. But Joe Biden is about to make up for…
Joe Biden’s Big Tech takeover
Twitter’s banning of Donald Trump is like bolting the stable door after the QAnon shaman has gone. The damage was…
Sharp left
The Democrats have taken control of America
America turns left
In the days following the presidential election in November, political centrists reached a hasty verdict. Never mind all the squabbling…
Buckle up for Biden and the Blob
With any change of power in Washington, it is routine to ask which policies will endure and which will change.…
Why Trump must attend Biden’s inauguration
Recent political talk has focused almost entirely on January 5 (the Georgia Senate runoffs) and January 6 (congressional certification of…
The EU is taking a gamble with China
It took Brussels and Beijing seven years to agree an investment deal. A deal that, until its conclusion a few…
Are we back in the Obama White House?
Like most Greek stories, the tale of Pandora’s box is fraught with ambiguity. Most of us, when we first encounter the story,…
Who would want to be Joe Biden’s attorney general?
Whoever Joe Biden picks for attorney general is in a lose-lose situation. Why is that job so hard? At least…
Portrait of the Year
January Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, signed the EU withdrawal agreement, sent from Brussels by train. Sajid Javid, the Chancellor…
The never-ending smugness of the NeverTrumpers
In March 2016 as Donald Trump looked likely to be the Republican party’s nominee to run for president, more than 100 foreign…
Farewell, Donald
Madeleine Kearns To Trump or not to Trump? Whether ’tis nobler on the page to be a morbid cynic or a self-righteous…
Closing time at the Barr
William P. Barr is out. Joe Biden is in. And Donald Trump has a few more weeks left to bemoan…
US Supreme Court ends Trump’s last hope
This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge…
No one wins in the race race
After the explosion of international self-abasement over George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, much theatrical soul-searching ensued. So your basic man…
Biden’s burden
Will he build on Trump’s foreign policy achievements – or destroy them?
Hunter becomes the hunted
Are the chickens coming home for Hunter Biden? It certainly seems so, though experts differ on the critical question of…
Biden’s speech impediment
Does Joe Biden write his own speeches? Surely not. Yet his campaign says Biden was his own speechwriter for the address he made…
Republican resurrection
When Donald Trump took his famous escalator ride, the Republican party was too attached to abstract principles at the expense of the material interests of…
