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Thursday
Wednesday
Beto O’Rourke may be the opposite of Trump – but is that what Texas wants?
The boyish challenger is increasingly popular…among wealthy liberals in $2 million homes
More fake news on Brexit from the New York Times
Stephen Castle has painted a picture of a Britain in panic based off a Facebook group of 1,200 people
Trump undaunted in the face of a midterm onslaught
The Donald declares the last two years the ‘most successful’ a president has ever had. Cohen, Manafort and Khashoggi may disagree with him there
I feel for Elizabeth Warren. I pretended to be Jewish for a year
Unlike her, however, I snapped out of it before I was old enough to vote
The heart of populism is identity, not race
Many voters are troubled by the fact that much of the new migration is illegal, and that the numbers are so large that assimilation will be difficult
Let’s speak ill of Dennis Hof
The now dead Trumpist candidate was a vile creature for whom women were nothing but a commodity
Tuesday
Teepee or not teepee? That is the question
It’s worrying that Elizabeth Warren finds herself compelled to publish evidence of atomic drops of Cherokee descent to declare herself a ‘minority’
Monday
Will the royal baby be an American?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to confirm to the public that it All Works Down There
Will Elizabeth Warren’s DNA results help her claim Trump’s scalp?
The Massachusetts senator has had her Native American heritage confirmed
The party of Pelosi can win in November — but not in 2020
Midterms simply are not a reliable verdict on a president’s job performance or re-electability
Saturday
Gavin McInnes: ‘Personally I think the guy was looking to get beat up for optics’
The leader of the Proud Boys believes his group were provoked by ‘antifa’ activists
Friday
Kanye West is winning Trump over with flattery. Does that make him a ‘madman’?
Maybe he’ll seem less crazy down the line when federal subsidies arrive for ‘Yeezy ideation centres’
It’s that time again! Bloomberg considers White House run
The billionaire nanny is toying with his favourite idea once more
Thursday
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
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
From Russia Today with love
I wish we were sophisticated enough to be a covert brainwashing exercise
Hitler’s descendants think Trump is doing a bad job
The Führer’s great-nephew prefers Angela Merkel as a leader
What Putin and Trump understand about UFC
There is no political correctness in cage fighting. But that’s not to say it’s not political
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
