Did I miss the coup?
There was to be a worldwide media blackout after which Donald Trump — for it is he — would announce to the world that he was still in control
Politics
Read about the latest political news, views and analysis
Thursday
Wednesday
How the Republican party survives Trump
The GOP must become the party of liberalism
Welcome to the Harris presidency!
Make no mistake: the professionals are back, as rich, entitled and useless as ever
America last: Biden’s first day in office
The US will return to a global order that has failed to provide tangible benefit for Americans
Tuesday
Donald Trump’s third-party revenge
A party of his own could be a lucrative grift
Monday
Is Trumpism toxic?
Has the right gone wrong? Or was Trump its last chance? A debate between two Spectator writers
Saturday
Welcome to DC, now show me your papers
The pre-inauguration lockdown of DC is an overreaction
Wednesday
Why even bother mentioning the 25th Amendment?
The House resolution gets Congress’s role ass-backwards
The great futility of partisan impeachment
The President’s closest allies in Congress are still standing by him. What about his voters?
Tuesday
Andrew Cuomo’s economy U-turn
The timing of the New York governor’s hard-right shift cannot be ignored
America’s Yeltsin moment
Trump was the mildest of corrections to the failures of post-Cold War liberalism
Monday
The trouble with alienating Middle America
Donald Trump is not the left’s real target. We — anyone who holds conservative principles — are the target
Saturday
So much for cooler heads prevailing
Is anyone really interested in deescalation?
MAGA arrives at the last level of the video game
For all the pathetic LARPing that took place on Wednesday, what happened inside the Capitol wasn’t a game
Friday
Now we’ll never know about voter fraud
The rioters have created a near untenable situation for their allies in power
The end game
How can America get through the final, flailing days of Trump’s presidency?
The honorable Mike Pence
The VP did not ‘turn on Trump’ — though Trump quickly turned the knife on him
Thursday
The folly of Josh Hawley
How dangerous is the Missouri senator’s ambition?
The carnival in the Capitol
They know the eyes of the world are upon them — and at least some of them appear to enjoy the attention
Congress certifies Biden’s victory after day of violence
Four people died in the vicinity of the Capitol on Wednesday