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Monday
Will the White House have no Chief of Staff?
Nick Ayers’s shock rejection of Trump’s offer has convulsed the search to replace John Kelly
Saturday
As Kelly departs, is Trump making the White House great again?
Trump loyalists are delighted at the general’s exit
Trump makes Benedict Arnold look like a patriot
It’s the very sweep of his schemes that is likely to prove his undoing
Friday
What does Mueller Friday mean for Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen and ‘Individual-1’?
A guilty plea might not equal a lenient sentence
Steve Bannon goes to war with the Pope
He’s setting up Hogwarts for culture warriors in Italy
Don’t blame Trump for the demise of the Weekly Standard
Its value lay in the fact it was an insider magazine
Wednesday
What was the real point of the Mueller investigation?
Since the beginning, it’s been an investigation in search of a crime rather than an investigation of a suspected crime
‘Not to sound naive or anything’, but it seems like Michael Flynn has ratted someone out to Mueller
Trump’s imagination is free to run riot as to who it might be
The Special Relationship between the Bushes and the Queen
Prince Charles is attending Bush 41’s funeral
Tuesday
George H.W. Bush: a man in full
Like all great leaders, he set a great example
From the archives: Peregrine Worsthorne on Bush 41
‘On opening my bag, I found a bottle of Jack Daniels with a note from the future President of the US’
Monday
Richard Nixon: the president who made George H.W. Bush possible
Bush always listened keenly to Nixon’s counsel and carefully considered it, though he didn’t always choose to heed it in full
Sunday
What’s wrong with Lena Dunham?
Let’s stop the orgy of hate towards a clearly damaged young woman
RIP, The Vishnu
He was the kindest, most decent man I’ve ever known
Saturday
George H.W. Bush was the representative president
The death of the last president to have served in World War Two represents the passing of an age
The US and China are headed for a showdown. Do the American people care?
Tensions can spawn a crisis when you least expect them
Friday
Why is no one treating Bernie Sanders like the Democratic front-runner?
From a purely electoral standpoint, Sanders stands the best chance against Trump
Thursday
What does Michael Cohen’s guilty plea mean for the Mueller investigation?
Trump Tower Moscow wasn’t off the cards during the campaign
Tuesday
Putin turns up the heat on Ukraine – again
Kiev must re-focus the world’s attention on Moscow’s continuing aggression against them
If you don’t believe in borders, should you be deciding US immigration policy?
Despite what Beto thinks, the United States doesn’t have an obligation to every distressed mother with a four-month-old
Monday
Emmanuel Macron is toxic and Paris is burning
The French president’s leadership is undermined by his ever-more radical obnoxiousness
What’s the matter with Portland?
The prosperous city has become the epicenter of antifa and political violence
Saturday
Meet Jerome Corsi, the conspiracy theorist turned conspirator
Robert Mueller is zeroing in on the ties between Corsi, Roger Stone, WikiLeaks, and Mother Russia
Trump lays bare America’s smelly little orthodoxies
Through his preposterousness, the President exposes the smugness, cant, and corruption of our politics
Friday
Pod Save America’s public firing of Tim Miller is oddly sanctimonious
Have the Pod’s hosts ever taken any money that doesn’t ‘square with the values’ they purport to hold?
One hundred years after ‘A Nation Fit for Heroes’
On November 23, 1918, David Lloyd George put forth a vision of post-war solidarity, in keeping with the sacrifices made in wartime
Thursday
’Twas the night after Thanksgiving
What will the White House’s Thanksgiving look like in 10 years’ time?
How the myth of JFK tortured the Democratic Party for 55 years
Decades after Dallas, the Dems keep drinking from the poisoned Kennedy chalice
Wednesday
The US-Rome feud shows no sign of abating
As conservatives, the US bishops’ instinct is to take the Pope’s slights on the chin. But in the last year, they’ve begun pushing back
Airbnb’s boycott and Facebook’s child bride: the moral vacuum of the internet
Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be adequately explained by greed
Tuesday
No, the Proud Boys aren’t an extremist group
They’re just mindless thugs barging into the culture war
Mueller is coming – and Trump can do nothing to stop him
What exactly Trump seeks to hide, and how Russian it is, has fallen to Bob Mueller and his cadre of seasoned investigators to unravel
Ivanka Trump is the new Hillary Clinton
It’s not just private email scandals. The First Daughter and the former First Lady have a lot in common