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Trump campaign misses the mark with latest Biden attack
Former vice president Joe Biden handed the Trump campaign an interview gaffe for the ages on Wednesday. When asked if…
Who does Trump want?
Joe Biden has reportedly narrowed his vice-presidential search, with Sen. Kamala Harris and former national security adviser Susan Rice taking…
No bread, no heat, no hope: Life in Lebanon after the Beirut blast
Once again, crisis comes to Lebanon. Once again, people are dying young in the Middle East. Last night an explosion…
Has Sweden been vindicated?
Sweden has released growth figures for the second quarter – a contraction of 8.6 per cent – and two narratives…
President Trump should bend — but not break — Big Tech
Americans’ increasing focus on this fall’s elections has awakened in me a tinge of nostalgia for the good old days…
Trump’s Burkean moment
President Trump surprised some on Saturday when he shared a video from Business Insider explaining that billionaires have amassed half-a-trillion…
Has Trump’s Covid-19 response really been so dire?
The sight of Donald Trump fumbling with charts during his interview on HBO this Monday has provided much ammunition for…
Should a coronavirus vaccine be compulsory?
The mandatory introduction of face masks in shops and a ban on families and friends from different households meeting in…
How much worse can things get for Lebanon?
Just before Twitter started firing out messages about a ‘bomb’ in Beirut, our cleaner rang us in tears, shaking, telling…
Can tourism subsidies save Japan's coronavirus-blighted economy?
In a striking contrast of priorities, as the UK government offers discounted fast food vouchers to revitalise the restaurant and…
The US is right to rethink its relationship with China
Anyone who has worked in an office has fantasised about destroying it. As someone who has taken a sledgehammer to…
Why 'progressives' love to hate Rosie Duffield
There can be a hallucinatory quality to the progressive mind, a tendency to see enemies in allies and demons in…
Wearing a mask is good manners
Early on in lockdown, I was picking up my daily paper and was confronted by someone who had contrived his…
Juan Carlos' exile may not save the Spanish monarchy
In the ‘bad bank’ model, a bank protects itself by dumping its toxic assets onto a second, newly-created institution. By…
Where the Arlington sidewalk ends
Watch out, Gretchen Whitmer! The queen of draconian and idiotic coronavirus restrictions is getting a run for her money thanks…
The media’s TikTok blindspot
We learned about journalists this past weekend. Specifically, we learned about tech journalists who aren’t particularly interested reporting or analyzing…
Have we passed peak Biden?
A consensus has formed about this presidential election: it is Joe Biden’s to lose. As long as his vice-presidential nomination…
It’s all relative with the Statue of Liberty
She stands in the smoky morning air, her copper lamp held elegantly aloft across the waters from Manhattan. Oh, say…
It's time to rein in the Supreme Court
The return of lockdown measures across parts of northern England, as well as the announcement of dozens of new peerages,…
Rosie Duffield and the war on women
It’s summer but the war on women continues. The latest person to fall victim to the transgender thought police is…
Layla Moran will kill off the Lib Dems. But I still want her to win
Make no mistake: Layla Moran’s Lib Dem leadership platform is terrible. She wants to scrap Ofsted, stop publishing league tables of…
Why I'm glad Boris and Starmer are sitting out the trans rights war
I’m starting to think that Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer have quite similar views about the politics of trans rights,…
Why Covid cases in England aren’t actually rising
The government has restricted the movements of millions of people in England because Covid is apparently on the rise. But…
Covid-19 and the twilight of Britain and France
Is Covid accelerating the eclipse of France and the UK as ‘great powers’? For over two centuries Paris and London…
Taxi cabs are New York’s right-wing safe spaces on wheels
Conservatives in a place like New York — squirming daily beneath the iron heel of a newly hawkish progressive minority…
