The primaries show that Trump Republicanism is still on the rise
The President’s preferred candidates had the edge on Tuesday
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Wednesday
Tuesday
Donald Trump is searching for attention
Google is the latest tech giant ‘rigged’ against conservatives, according to the President
Sunday
The New York Times’s slathering praise for John McCain rings false
Try reading what they wrote about him in 2008, when he represented a threat to Democratic hegemony
Why John McCain wasn’t right
He was a man of many virtues. It’s a shame his politics were so flawed
Friday
Mike Pence must be grinning as he waits in the wings
The Vice President is the only one who has everything to gain by remaining at his side and replacing him
Georgia on their mind: The amazing race for the Atlanta Governor’s Mansion
Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp face off — and they couldn’t be more different
The pain of being Jeff Sessions
From first senator on the Trump train to an Attorney General scorned
Thursday
The Teflon Don: Why Trump survives
Voters knew they weren’t electing a saint
Why the neocons are attacking Rand Paul, again
Weekly Standard editor Stephen F. Hayes is lashing out for a reason
Just how ‘settled’ is Roe v. Wade?
In previous decisions, Judge Kavanaugh has demonstrated faithfulness to the Constitution
It’s not science I don’t trust – it’s the scientists
Everyone knows the real reason people like Donald Trump are sceptical of climate change is that conservatives are fundamentally anti-science. Some doubt science because it conflicts with their religious beliefs; others because its implications might mean radically shifting the global economy in an anti-growth or heavily statist direction, which goes against their free-market ideology; others because, being conservative, they are prisoners of their dogmatism, need closure and fear uncertainty. I hear this all the time from lefties on social media. And there seems to be some evidence to support it. At least there is if you believe studies like The Republican War on Science (Mooney, 2005), Politicization of Science in
Wednesday
Despite the best efforts of disgusting Robert Mueller, Donald Trump remains unscathed
The Cohen and Manafort trials haven’t really changed anything for the man in charge
Dare I ask how Cohen and Manafort have affected the GOP’s midterm prospects?
Republicans have stuck by Trump through thick and thin…so far
Sunday
Is it Robert Mueller who’s a McCarthyist, or the President?
Don McGahn has sent Trump into another Twitter frenzy
Will Don McGahn be the next John Dean?
The White House Counsel has spoken to Robert Mueller’s team on three separate occasions.
Friday
Trump blames DC mayor for raining on his parade
What, no tanks?
Don’t call it a comeback: The resurfacing of Steve Bannon
‘The Great Manipulator’ is back on the warpath on two continents
Thursday
Keith Ellison cashes in his ‘one free hit’
The DNC were silent on abuse allegations against their deputy chair…until Tuesday’s polls closed
Who is Trump more scared of: some newspapers, or Omarosa?
Three hundred papers led by the Boston Globe fronted up for press freedom
The return of Rand Paul
The Kentucky senator is able to bridge Trumpism and old-guard Republicanism while pointing both in a more libertarian direction