Democrats

How long can the Democrats keep Trump in legal limbo?

20 December 2022 11:15 pm

Yesterday, a political committee set up in order to condemn Donald Trump condemned Donald Trump. It would have been truly…

Will Hispanic conservatives transform US politics?

2 July 2022 9:00 am

If you had to take a guess on which American political party would produce the first Mexican-born Congresswoman, which one…

Biden is losing America

29 November 2021 11:10 pm

Plummeting polls are sending a clear message to the Biden administration, but the President is deaf, dumb and blind to…

The best podcasts about money

13 November 2021 9:00 am

Stories about money are never about money. They are about pain, about family, about atrocity, about luck, about health, about…

Will the G7 tax deal survive?

10 June 2021 8:35 am

What are the chances of the G7’s agreement on a minimum rate of corporation tax actually coming into effect? While…

Joe Biden’s plan to keep the Democrats in power

20 January 2021 8:24 pm

Today the Trump administration ends. The first time a President has failed to win re-election since 1992. The first time…

Trump has given the Democrats a chance in Georgia

6 January 2021 7:12 am

Senate runoffs are being held today in Georgia, due to a peculiar state law which says that if no candidate…

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Deplorables don’t riot

9 November 2020 2:15 am

For months, the media has warned us that a narrow Joe Biden victory in the presidential election could lead to…

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What if this election had been COVID-free?

2 November 2020 11:13 pm

Imagine there’s no COVID. It’s not that easy even if you try. The pandemic fogs up everything now. But it’s…

One zinger after another – but it’ll leave you cold: Trial of the Chicago 7 reviewed

3 October 2020 9:00 am

Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 — don’t worry, you haven’t missed six earlier films — is a…

The persistent myth of a non-political Supreme Court

19 September 2020 9:40 pm

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a terrible blow to Democrats, but there is an important point to…

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The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots

24 August 2020 10:51 pm

Protesters have been setting fire to yet another American city today to tell us that black lives matter. This latest…

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The Democrats are damned if they nominate Sanders. And damned if they don’t

15 February 2020 3:17 pm

It might be a stretch to compare the ugly-but-not-violent warfare of American politics in 2020 with the explosive politics of…

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In Iowa, Democrats tell farmers no new jobs until Greta Thunberg is happy

15 January 2020 9:12 pm

We were four minutes in, somewhere on the outskirts of Mideast foreign policy, when the boredom began to take hold.…

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Bernie Sanders is back — and Donald Trump is delighted

14 January 2020 10:30 pm

Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign looked listless back in October. Sure, the Vermont senator and 2016 Democratic party runner-up still had…

impeachment

How Democrats lost the Impeachment War — and probably 2020

11 December 2019 9:46 pm

The Democratic party is dying from its hatred of President Trump. The impeachment fiasco is just the latest symptom. After…

Is Joe Biden the Democrat’s Jeb Bush?

3 July 2019 2:52 am

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when Joe Biden was the man to beat in the race to…

Beto O’Rourke is the big loser in the Democratic debate

27 June 2019 3:13 pm

Notepads out, pencils in-hand, and water at the ready, a pack of Democratic presidential candidates did battle last night in…

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Why Joe Biden can’t win

29 May 2019 11:56 pm

Like the poor according to Jesus of Nazareth, Joe Biden we will always have with us, or so it seems.…

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The 2020 Democrats you’re likely to see at the debates

29 May 2019 11:23 pm

Televised debates are one of the great mysteries of electoral politics. One major gaffe can sink a candidate, they say.…

Why the Republican elite couldn’t stop Donald Trump

19 March 2016 9:00 am

The political climate that brought about his rise is in fact a worldwide phenomenon

Donald Trump's angry America

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Welcome to Trump’s America, where greed is great and viciousness beautiful

How Bernie Sanders stole Hillary Clinton’s youth vote

13 February 2016 9:00 am

They’re both very old, but Sanders won the youth vote

Compared to Trump, Hillary can't be that bad. Can she?

12 December 2015 9:00 am

A Trump vs Clinton tussle for the US presidency is now likely. She can’t be that bad . . . can she?