Hillary Clinton

Must we live in perpetual fear of being named and shamed?

6 January 2024 9:00 am

Current wars, Brexit and Trumpism have sucked us into a vortex of outrage and disgrace, says David Keen – while advertisers make us feel guilty for being too fat or just poor

Is there any defence against the tidal wave of online disinformation?

12 August 2023 9:00 am

Grotesque conspiracy theories merge and snowball, with serious global consequences. James Ball proposes a Digital Health System to counter the ‘pathogens’

Is Anna Wintour human?

21 May 2022 9:00 am

Apparently Anna Wintour wants to be seen as human, and Amy Odell’s biography goes some way to helping her achieve…

Hillary Clinton's latest masterclass

10 December 2021 12:10 am

It’s been a tough few years for poor old Hillary. Since losing the 2016 contest to Donald Trump, the ‘most…

Playing with fire — did QAnon start as a cynical game?

24 July 2021 9:00 am

The QAnon conspiracy theory may be absurd, but it can’t be ignored. It has already led to significant acts of violence, says Damian Thompson

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Why Joe Biden will win tomorrow

3 November 2020 3:10 am

Joe Biden is going to win. I have been wrong before. I will be wrong again. And maybe I’m wrong…

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Will we ever know the truth about Russiagate?

20 October 2020 8:16 am

Writing in mid-October, anno domini 2020, it is sobering to speculate that when the results of a certain upcoming political…

magical thinking

The Democratic art of magical thinking

10 October 2020 3:42 am

I should clear up one thing straight away. I do not believe that Joe Biden is guilty of magical thinking.…

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2016 all over again

30 August 2020 4:02 am

I’m not an election prognosticator. I have no magic insight telling me what will happen on November 3, 2020. Frankly,…

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Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?

21 August 2020 3:54 am

‘Have you guys been following 4Chan?’ asks Marjorie Taylor Greene in a 2017 video. A mysterious ‘patriot’ named ‘Q’, Greene…

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All pageantry, no progress: Wednesday night at the DNC

20 August 2020 2:37 pm

‘I’m in love — but not with anybody here. I’ll see you in a couple years,’ Billie Eilish crooned during…

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For the Democrats’ sake, I hope the DNC viewership is low

20 August 2020 1:41 pm

I almost gave tonight’s DNC performance a miss. How could they top the fey chap pretending to be a bat…

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Will Trump win Minnesota?

14 August 2020 7:37 am

Sen. Amy Klobuchar may have to eat her words after declaring last year that Donald Trump will ‘never win Minnesota’.…

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Joe Biden should debate

11 August 2020 4:24 am

Why would a benevolent God deny us the prospect of a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump? As the…

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The right’s cannibalism problem

24 June 2020 11:49 pm

The right has a cannibalism problem. It gleefully attacks and eats its own. The left silently watches Republican after Republican…

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton

Will Hillary be Biden’s VP?

29 April 2020 6:21 am

Far be it from Cockburn to compare a former secretary of state to a venereal disease, but perhaps Fox News…

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The Democratic civil war has been a long time coming

4 March 2020 3:07 am

Bernie Sanders has had an unlikely ally during the 2020 Democratic nomination race: Donald Trump. The president has repeatedly insisted…

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Hillary Clinton tells the truth

22 January 2020 12:58 pm

After all the fakery of the 2016 election, the hot sauce in her bag, the ‘chillin’ in Cedar Rapids’, Hillary…

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Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to win

22 January 2020 9:43 am

Why is Bernie Sanders running for president? The 70-some-year-old pop culture curmudgeon has gone through all the motions of showing…

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Warren’s dirty trick against Bernie proves she’s the new Hillary

15 January 2020 8:27 am

The next time Elizabeth Warren offers you a beer, be sure not to turn your back on her lest she…

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Hillary Clinton is right to question transgender orthodoxy

13 November 2019 2:56 am

Hillary Clinton’s BBC interview in London is making headlines mainly about Russia, but students of the debate about transgender rights…

The mesmerising mediocrity of Trump’s opponents

9 November 2019 9:00 am

If you believe the headlines, President Donald Trump is in deep trouble. The great impeachment saga is gathering pace. House…

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Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton of 2020

24 October 2019 5:46 am

This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. How did Elizabeth Warren, a left-wing populist, become the candidate…

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Tulsi Gabbard: a Gandhi in Lycra

22 October 2019 2:17 am

Andrew Yang claimed to be surprised that the media dubbed Tulsi Gabbard the first Asian American to run for the…

invective

The age of invective

21 October 2019 6:50 pm

A healthy democracy requires free speech and free assembly, tolerance for different views, and peaceful transfers of power among contending parties. It requires…