A shaky truce in Beirut
On the ground in the days leading to the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
Features
Thursday
Thursday
Democracy on the ballot
Will this election be a lesson to anyone?
Drea de Matteo’s Italian-American Christmas
We invite everybody over that doesn’t have a place to go
The three reasons Trump won
Kamala Harris was a horrible candidate. He, on the contrary, was superb
The realignment election
Harris lost ground in all demographics except one. Where did Democrats go wrong?
The end of NeverTrump
It turns out that just employing the enemy of your enemy isn’t enough
How podcasts swayed the 2024 election
A new generation armed with microphones and little else takes center stage
How the lawfare campaign against Trump backfired
Will the president-elect rain down the same firestorm on his adversaries that they unleashed on him?
The two final battles of the culture war
Do conservatives have the edge with moderates in the trans-rights argument?
The death of the American museum
The drive to inspire has been overtaken by the gratuitous need to moralize
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the DEIty
Ten years in an America enslaved to race recrimination
Why I quit poker
The game had consumed my brain
In praise of American charity
People living in the United States have traditionally been pretty philanthropic, but the trend is changing
How the Democrats Bud Lighted their brand
You can’t be openly hostile to men for two decades and expect to retain the male vote
A prayer in Ukraine
At the National Prayer Breakfast, religious and political leaders unite to pray for an end to their people’s suffering
Panicking over the planet and population is pointless
We have to look at history and give careful thought to the world’s complexity
South Africa’s international decline
From beloved country to rogue democracy — and back again?
The Spectator’s 2024 Books of the Year
Our writers weigh in
Monday
The 2024 Hobson’s choice
The 2024 election may come down to whether an electorate firmly in the acceptance stage of grief backslides into the second
Why Kamala Harris will lose
There will be no Covid to save Democrats this time. Nor will there be an ‘October surprise’ damaging enough to neutralize Trump