If America needs a manager, Michael Bloomberg bids to be the man
The 76-year-old is once again Hamlet-like in his pondering of a run for the presidency
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Thursday
Tuesday
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a Republican in disguise?
The self-defeating Democratic campaign to undermine the Electoral College
Is Nikki Haley jumping off a sinking ship?
The outgoing UN Ambassador praised Javanka as she departed
Hitler’s descendants think Trump is doing a bad job
The Führer’s great-nephew prefers Angela Merkel as a leader
Trump’s luck and the Democratic death wish
The President’s fumbling opponents keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
The yin of Andrew Yang
The unlikely 2020 challenger is a proponent of universal basic income — and all the problems that come with it
Monday
Black Mirror politics is coming to the midterms
Isn’t there a sinister side to an army of 17,000 citizen activists looking for damaging intel on Republicans?
Sunday
What’s the matter with Kansas? Trump heads inland to find out
For all its reputation as a deep-red state, Kansas conservatives are not very well organised
Saturday
Kavanaugh confirmed, despite the Democratic ‘search and destroy mission’
The President’s support is why Kavanaugh prevailed where Robert Bork stumbled
Friday
Kagan and Sotomayor discuss everything but Kavanaugh at Princeton
Instead Kagan described the importance of the court’s ‘reputation of being fair, of being impartial, of being neutral’
J’accuse! America gets its own Dreyfus Affair
The Kavanaugh affair won’t end with his nomination. It will dog American politics for decades
How Trumpian should a GOP candidate be to win a midterm?
Trump imitators tend not to fare as well as the real thing
Don’t blame Trump for the Presidential Alert folly
The new alerts are likely to prove harmless, if unnecessary
Thursday
Why are the New York Times’s ‘law professors’ pretending the Kavanaugh hearings weren’t partisan?
And how many of those 650 names do you recognise?
Kavanaugh is almost through — but at what cost to the Republicans?
The rage that is percolating in America will be exploited by the Democrats as they point to Kavanaugh’s presence on the court as a permanent blot on the judiciary
The truth is we prefer to lie
We will never know the truth of the Kavanaugh case unless one of the two principal actors ’fesses up — and even then I wouldn’t be too sure
Republicans should have seen the Brett Kavanaugh ambush coming – Richard Nixon did
‘The hearings themselves have become a scandal,’ said the 37th president of the Clarence Thomas allegations in 1991. How right he was
Wednesday
Jeff Flake 2020: Is the retiring senator warming up for a presidential challenge?
He is acting like a man with nothing to lose
Tuesday
Why there’s no feminist solidarity for Kellyanne Conway
If you don’t conform to the programme, you’re Not One of Us
Did Eric Trump help his Daddy cover up the Stormy Daniels affair?
The latest revelations about Trump cast further light on the assiduity with which he disseminates his serial fictions