Jacob Heilbrunn

There is no upside for Trump if he’s arrested

19 March 2023 5:09 am

It’s getting Stormy for Donald Trump. In a lengthy message on his TruthSocial site on Saturday morning, Trump announced that…

The contrast between Biden’s and Putin’s speeches

22 February 2023 7:54 am

The contrast between the two presidents could hardly be starker. One is dwelling in his own dream palace, indulging fantasies…

The FBI descends on Biden’s beach house

2 February 2023 7:19 am

Search’s up at the Biden beach house. President Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer explains, “Today, with the President’s full support…

Biden is the war president Ukraine needs

27 January 2023 2:20 pm

Joe Biden is upping the ante in Ukraine. Even as Vladimir Putin directs a fresh barrage of missiles, Biden is…

The Brooks Brothers riot comes to Brazil

10 January 2023 7:52 am

So the Brooks Brothers riot has arrived in Brasilia. That riot, a precursor to January 6, took place in Miami-Dade…

The Republican party’s civil war will delight Joe Biden

4 January 2023 6:01 pm

Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis declared as he was sworn in for a second time yesterday that, under his reign, Florida…

Kevin McCarthy is a dead man walking

4 January 2023 12:44 pm

On Tuesday, Governor Ron DeSantis enjoyed an orderly ceremony as he was sworn in for the second time in Tallahassee.…

January 6 Committee turns Trump from predator to prey

20 December 2022 6:15 pm

With the January 6 Committee’s recommendation to the Justice Department last night to prosecute Donald Trump on four counts of…

Herschel Walker’s loss shows Trump’s fortunes have gone south

8 December 2022 2:00 am

Have Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations gone south? The failure of Herschel Walker to become the next senator from Georgia has…

Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die

30 November 2022 4:08 am

Donald Trump has caused something of a hugger-mugger over his last supper with Kanye West, or Ye, and Nick Fuentes.…

Donald Trump, accidental Paul Revere

11 November 2022 2:09 pm

Is he a stone cold loser? The Wall Street Journal editorial page, not to mention its owner Rupert Murdoch, certainly…

The Trump subpoena probably won’t matter much

14 October 2022 1:19 pm

Poor Donald Trump. The January 6 committee has subpoenaed him. The New York attorney general is seeking to put the…

Did Russia sabotage its own pipelines?

28 September 2022 6:15 am

It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close…

Conservatives need to forget about Hungary

19 April 2022 1:38 am

In his novel The Prime Minister, the fifth in the Palliser series, Anthony Trollope has Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium,…

Zelensky basks in the world’s spotlight

17 March 2022 1:28 am

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is flying high. The contrast between Zelensky, who virtually addressed Congress this morning, and Russian president…

It’s time for Germany to stand up to Russia

26 February 2022 8:00 pm

In his novel The Loyal Subject, which appeared on the eve of the first world war, Heinrich Mann, the brother…

Biden is ‘convinced’ Putin will invade Ukraine. Is Putin?

19 February 2022 5:47 pm

The only thing more sombre than President Joe Biden’s tone at his press conference on Friday afternoon was his funereal…

Springtime for liberal interventionists

26 January 2022 6:00 pm

It’s springtime for liberal interventionism. Russian President Vladimir Putin may not have intended it, but he is doing a good…

Biden’s Capitol speech shows how much he needs Trump

7 January 2022 2:58 am

Joe Biden delivered. There was no somnolence, no quiescence. Instead, Biden lashed into his predecessor in unprecedented fashion to offer…

Liz Cheney’s high noon

15 December 2021 4:23 am

Last night was Liz Cheney’s breakout moment. As Cheney read the various text messages from various Fox News luminaries and…

Steve Bannon’s indictment tightens the noose

15 November 2021 2:56 pm

Congressman Adam Schiff is crowing. “It’s very positive,” he said on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press about the indictment of…

Sleep is Joe Biden’s superpower

2 November 2021 2:01 pm

As usual, P.G. Wodehouse put it best. “What is it Shakespeare calls sleep, Jeeves?,” Bertie Wooster inquires of his faithful…

Tucker Carlson goes full truther

31 October 2021 5:01 pm

Heavens to Betsy! It seems that Tucker Carlson has gone full truther. Or, if you prefer, disinformer about the tawdry…

The ‘Justice for J6’ rally was a total dud

20 September 2021 3:12 pm

There used to be an old joke that there were more members of the FBI who were members of the…

The Taliban didn’t beat America. Afghanistan did

3 September 2021 2:28 pm

The late Edward Said invented, or at least brought into vogue, the notion of Orientalism. For a time this became…