Ben Domenech

Will Senator Mitch McConnell step down after his latest freezing episode?

31 August 2023 6:02 pm

Senator Mitch McConnell appeared to have another elderly moment in Kentucky following an event yesterday, where a question about whether…

2024 is America’s ‘lock him up’ election

22 August 2023 5:49 pm

It’s time to acknowledge the obvious truth about 2024: it’s going to be an election about who Americans want to…

We’re living through Barack Obama’s third term

8 August 2023 4:51 pm

One of the big questions in Washington and across the country as Joe Biden’s very public decline has accelerated is:…

Could Trump’s indictments boost his election chances?

4 August 2023 6:10 pm

When Donald Trump’s attorney and spokeswoman Alina Habba took to the streets on Thursday in front of the federal courthouse in…

Is Ron DeSantis the new Kamala Harris?

25 July 2023 12:26 am

What if the problem for Ron DeSantis isn’t that he resembles the spiraling candidacies of the past, but that he’s…

Trump versus the party

18 July 2023 12:02 pm

When The Simpsons’s evil billionaire C. Montgomery Burns heads for a checkup, the doctor informs him he has virtually every disease…

Trump at UFC and Kristen Bell’s dinner party: two viral moments from two Americas

11 July 2023 1:41 am

Viral moments from either side of the American divide come so frequently these days that they are forgotten just as…

Biden’s decline deepens in MSNBC interview

1 July 2023 12:42 am

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace conducted an interview with Joe Biden (if you can call it that) that came across more like twenty minutes…

Dumb risks are worth taking

23 June 2023 6:44 am

The plight of the Titanic submariners has engulfed the media over the past week and demanded the attention of countless…

Hunter Biden is protected from on high

22 June 2023 5:24 am

In his texts, Hunter Biden depicts himself as Atlas, carrying his entire family on his back — their financial and…

On Fox, Trump admits: this terrible idea was his own

21 June 2023 2:35 am

In my line of sight from my office, beside stacks of books and magazines, between unplugged lamps and cigar boxes,…

Biden’s age and Trump’s legal problems are inescapable

17 June 2023 1:38 am

For all the vagaries of presidential contests, we know two things about 2024: Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s legal…

Donald Trump’s arraignment was a circus

14 June 2023 5:15 pm

The scene in Miami was somewhat less than promised today. The predicted tens of thousands of protesters were replaced instead…

The Trump indictment will be destabilizing, no matter what

10 June 2023 1:48 am

As a general matter, people who are indicted and punished for absconding with classified material tend to have done one…

Mike Pence jumps on the grenade

6 June 2023 10:50 pm

When I interviewed Mike Pence recently, I asked him why so many people around him tell me the same thing:…

DeSantis should talk about Jeffrey Epstein tonight

25 May 2023 1:37 am

Ron DeSantis’s choice to enter the presidential stakes with a Twitter Spaces conversation is unusual. Odder still is the news that…

CNN plays with fire again

12 May 2023 12:06 am

CNN’s decision to host a Donald Trump town hall turned out exactly as you might have expected: a horror show that…

Liz Cheney’s anti-Trump ad helps Trump

11 May 2023 2:23 am

There are two categories of people who most desperately want Donald Trump to be the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024:…

The ‘brutal’ poll that reveals the truth about Joe Biden

9 May 2023 5:11 pm

The latest poll from the Washington Post and ABC News sent shockwaves through America’s media over the weekend, with numbers that are absolutely dire…

Biden’s 2024 announcement is begging for the return of Trump

26 April 2023 1:38 am

Joe Biden’s campaign officially launched with a video released in the early morning hours featuring a message bizarrely limited in…

The New Right is going nowhere — and knows it

24 April 2023 11:00 am

It is an irony of history that the bronze Statue of Freedom which stands tall atop the US Capitol dome…

Thunderdome 2024: only Trump supporters want DeSantis to get in now

21 April 2023 12:18 am

In the two months since the launch of the 2024 Thunderdome for the Republican nomination, the field has turned out…

The indictment that broke the country

6 April 2023 2:38 am

It was a bright blue-skied July day in 1861, so the Washington elite decided to have a picnic and take…

The insanity of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ led America to this point

5 April 2023 8:15 am

They have come from far and wide today to see the elephant in New York City. The #Resistance that promised…

The right’s two responses to Trump’s indictment

1 April 2023 2:27 am

The immediate reaction to the indictment of Donald Trump by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has been a run to support…