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Tuesday
Has Mayor Pete won the Iowa caucuses?
Potentially…not?
NeverTrump 2020 died in Iowa
You can’t defeat Donald Trump by acting like Donald Trump
Iowa Democrats couldn’t have picked a worse time to mess up
If the party can’t make an app work in Iowa, how will that bode for rolling out a single-payer healthcare system for 360 million people?
Void the Iowa caucus results
Nobody is going to believe the outcome
Why the Iowa voting fiasco matters
The Democratic party looks incompetent, and public trust in election integrity has been further eroded
Goodbye Biden. Hello Bloomberg
If Biden was spared bad news last night, it was only to suffer another day
Punch-drunk Biden gets a beating in the gym
A pity that the quality control started so late in Iowa
Chaos wins the Iowa caucus
Worst in the nation
Monday
Donald Trump: social justice warrior
The president’s Super Bowl ad reminded us of the progress we’ve made on criminal justice reform
Friday
Impeachment has proved the Democrats are no longer democrats
Their arguments about why the Senate needed to call witnesses were contradictory
The impeachment ‘sea change’ shows Trump can beat anyone in 2020
The elitist narrative about Donald Trump has begun a process of mutation
Lamar Alexander clears the way for an unbound Trump
But no one has done more to bolster Trump’s fortunes than Mitch McConnell
You call this ‘abuse of power’?
By impeaching Trump for mentioning Joe Biden on a phone call, House Democrats are absolving previous US governments for doing far worse
Thursday
The Democrats’ dirty secret? They don’t want witnesses
Getting John Bolton to testify might only prolong their political misery
Wednesday
Amber Athey joins as The Spectator’s Washington editor
She is a highly talented and accomplished young journalist and a very gifted writer
Americans have impeached impeachment
This is only the third time in history a president has been impeached and the first time that absolutely no one cares
Tuesday
‘It doesn’t matter who the president is’, says Libertarian presidential candidate John McAfee
The eccentric anti-virus pioneer Skyped me from an undisclosed location
Why John Bolton won’t win his war on Trump
Far from damning Trump, his intervention suggests the president was acting in a reasonable manner
Monday
The Bolton blindside
When I met him on the eve of the Iraq war, he struck me as perhaps the most straightforward of the bunch
