Why Trump’s Fourth of July speech was a botch job
To succeed as a speaker, you need timing, luck and a connection with your audience
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Friday
Biden and Trump converge on the middle ground
The president stuck to the script yesterday, while Biden struck out against AOC
Thursday
Justin Amash is the anti-Ron Paul
He ’ s teaching libertarians how to lose
Wednesday
Swalwell’s folly
Enjoy the Russia-crazy congressman’s doomed quest for the presidency while it lasts
Tuesday
Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ is the perfect fusion of capitalism and patriotism
Converting July 4 into a commercial event is a masterstroke
Monday
Vice President Tucker Carlson?
The Fox News host could refocus the Trump 2020 campaign
Towards an American nationalism
At a time of angry division, what can bind us together?
Friday
Marianne Williamson put a spell on me
She’s part-Kate Bush, part-Witch King of Angmar, and all I’ve been thinking about since yesterday
The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act is unfair for American workers
A bill for Big Tech and billionaires
Harris’s premeditated potshot won’t come close to sinking Biden
The media are bored by the prospect of a ‘sure thing’
Biden has time to wriggle out of Harris’s Miami vise
There’s no cogent reason to believe that he’s toast
The Democrats’ Catch-22 in the primaries
In winning the primaries, they lose ordinary voters
The Democrats are too fake for 2020
The politics of recitation is enough for ordinary time. But America is in the midst of serious change
Thursday
Will Trump enter the hypersonic nuclear arms race?
US struggling to respond to deadly new weapons
Cory Booker’s southern strategy
The New Jersey senator is in the race because, as Wednesday showed, he can actually win
Wednesday’s debate was a warm-up act
The debate offered was a sneak peek into the next Democratic president’s cabinet
A pathetic exhibition of virtue-signaling in Miami
‘Does she know about a thing called money?’, said my 11-year-old daughter
Tuesday
Spare a thought for the single-digit 2020 Democrats
This week’s debates offer a shot at glory
The Democratic debates drinking game
Because no way are you making it through sober
Monday
Michael Wolff: the Mueller indictment document ‘sits on my desk’
Wolff is on a tour for his book, Siege
