The Chinese trade deal is a Christmas gift to Xi
The agreement doesn’t mark the end of the trade war. It is, at best, a truce
Politics
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Saturday
Friday
Trump’s Chinese tariffs are simply a scare tactic
The president is often described as unpredictable, but he is really quite easy to read
Can anyone lay a glove on Donald Trump?
The president turns the tormentors into the tormented
Thursday
Kamala Harris is not your vice president
Her terrible campaign proves she has nothing to add
Trump’s ‘Jew shenanigans’
The president leads where the media and politicians fail
Wednesday
How Democrats lost the Impeachment War — and probably 2020
The party is struggling to adapt to the 21st century
Monday
Sturm und Drang at the impeachment hearings
There’s now a definitive narrative of how Giuliani orchestrated the removal of an American ambassador
Where did the money come from for Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine operations?
The curious relationships among those helping to dig up dirt on Joe Biden
Friday
Confessions of a White House staffer: Nato and nutty professors
We were able to get back at the media in a small way — scheduling the press tour of the Christmas decorations for 5 a.m. on a Monday morning
Thursday
Pelosi’s rush to impeachment
The Democratic speaker wants impeachment over with. So does everyone else
Bernie Sanders leans into anti-Semitism
By making Linda Sarsour his surrogate, the Democratic candidate has betrayed his heritage and his party
Impeachment really is a pathetic clown show
Somebody needs to say to Schiff and Nadler: ‘You’re fired’
Impeachment doesn’t work
The Democrats could tackle Trump in more effective ways. But they are too interested in the political theater
American breakup: secession is much closer than we think
The states with the most active secession movements are progressive and want to escape from a federal government they think too conservative
Wednesday
Donald Trump hates being the butt of ridicule
One slight in his direction and he frets about the moral fabric of America being torn apart
Trump is saving Nato
Isn’t it bromantic?
Tuesday
Will Michael Bloomberg break double digits?
Primary voters want the red meat
Kamala Harris’s downfall has been obvious for months
Democratic elites saw in Harris their perfect ideal for what the electorate wanted, mistaking their own preferences for the preferences of actual voters
Monday
Trump vs the cities
Progressive leadership is destroying urban America
Wednesday
Why are politicians so obsessed with authenticity?
Another squad marches hopelessly into the enfilade of the inauthenticity firing line
