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Warren stops persisting
Being president just wasn’t in Elizabeth Warren’s DNA. The New York Times’s favorite candidate has nevertheless stopped persisting. After finishing…
A short list of Biden backers who declared Trump mentally unfit for office
If there ever were a theme to emerge from the Trump era it is this: hypocrisy. We’re all guilty, we…
Watch: Boris struggles to say if he'll change nappies
After a prolonged spell of avoiding media interviews, Boris Johnson finally came out of hiding today and appeared on breakfast television. The…
Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?
Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age.…
Super Tuesday’s real winner was Donald Trump
Was I wrong, or only early? After Joe Biden’s win in the South Carolina primary, I wrote that his victory…
2020, the Year of the Drunken Uncle
How in the world did Chris Matthews get himself fired? To be sure, the man did stick his foot in…
Bye bye Bloomberg
‘I’m a believer in using data to inform decisions,’ Michael Bloomberg said in a statement as he ended his campaign.…
Is Joe Biden really a sure thing?
How quickly the campaigns of Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — all billed as moderates — have assimilated…
Joe’s Super Thursday!
I met Joe Biden last month, after one of his town hall events in New Hampshire. His team had turned…
Could Joe Biden be the Hillary Clinton of 2020?
The 2020 struggle for the White House is shaping up to look a lot like the 2016 contest. Once more…
Will Japan ban its 'offensive' Rising Sun flag at the Tokyo Olympics?
Ant and Dec have done most things in their long careers in light entertainment. But the versatile duo broke new…
Dispirited Democrats rally behind zombie campaign on Super Tuesday
Joe Biden crawled ahead early in Tuesday night’s thrilling electric scooter race between two near-octogenarians, whereas of midnight Biden took…
The Democratic primary is now a two-man race between Biden and Bernie
With the votes still being accumulated and the final counts in California and Texas still to be determined, it’s a…
Joe Biden could torch Trump
The luck of the Irish was finally with Joseph Biden. Dismissed as a loser by much of the political class,…
What is Michael Bloomberg thinking?
There are lies, damned lies, and data in politics. Everyone presumed a man as well-resourced as Michael Bloomberg had run…
In Massachusetts, Warren fails to pull rabbit from hat
Boston Elizabeth Warren has all the answers, a plan for every disaster and the hectoring manner of a professor whose…
The center holds: Biden thrives on Super Tuesday
Joe Biden doesn’t have the organization that Bernie Sanders has behind him. He doesn’t have the money that Michael Bloomberg…
Trump campaign hits the media where it hurts — in court
The Trump campaign named the Washington Post in a libel suit on Tuesday over two articles the paper published last…
Britain must fight the EU’s nanny state urges
The UK government has given the EU a Brexit deadline of four months. No. 10 is threatening to walk away from the negotiating table…
The Democratic civil war has been a long time coming
Bernie Sanders has had an unlikely ally during the 2020 Democratic nomination race: Donald Trump. The president has repeatedly insisted…
Why I’m voting for Tulsi in Virginia
Four years ago I cast a vote for Bernie Sanders in the Virginia Democratic Primary. It was a triple protest:…
What could divide the Democrats more than conspiring to stop Bernie?
Perhaps the intense wave of establishment Democratic party consolidation around Joe Biden over the past 48 hours isn’t a concerted…
Why did Amy Klobuchar drop out?
Minnesota Nice Wasn’t Enough. Neither were Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s center-left positions and bland presentations. And so, today, she left the…
All aboard the Biden train
Nobody is banking on Mayor Mike any longer. First Mayor Pete, then Sen. Amy Klobuchar, suspended their campaigns, offering a…
What makes Bloomie run?
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. In that great movie Citizen Kane, Orson Welles makes it…
