January 6 Committee turns Trump from predator to prey
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The late Edward Said invented, or at least brought into vogue, the notion of Orientalism. For a time this became…
Biden embraces his inner realist
It’s starting to look as though President Joe Biden really does want to leave Afghanistan. In his speech today, Biden…
What does the future hold for Donald Trump?
Don’t call it a comeback! Whether it’s by popular acclamation or by a coup, as former national security adviser Michael…
Underestimate Joe Biden at your peril
Talk about mojo! It was a calm, genial and persuasive Joe Biden that appeared before the press yesterday afternoon, easily…
Is America overstimulated?
The last thing anyone would accuse Joe Biden of is being overstimulated. But the Senate’s rapid approval of his pandemic…
Ted Cruz’s moment in the sun
So one disaster wasn’t enough for you, Ted? You had to create a new, very personal one by hightailing it…
To convict or not to convict
Tomorrow, attorneys Bruce Castor, David Schoen, Michael van der Veen and William Brennan plan to speak on behalf of Donald…
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…
