How the legacy media became powerless
The 2024 election seems to sound the final knell for an industry that managed to hang on well past its prime
2024
Friday
Shooing away the ghosts of Clinton and Blair
Donald Trump didn’t just win an election last year, he performed an exorcism
Thursday
The heterodox cabinet
In almost every role that matters, Trump has opted for a nominee who has been an extreme critic of the very body he or she is set to oversee
The new political era
Donald J. Trump is, without a doubt, the most remarkable American politician to hold office since 1945
Thursday
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
The two final battles of the culture war
Do conservatives have the edge with moderates in the trans-rights argument?
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
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
The turnout election: a tale of two ground games
Voters will determine who has the better strategy
The Florida abortion question that could shape national policy
The Sunshine State’s women have been presented with a false choice
The joy of politics
Does the Old Republican Establishment really believe that it can resurrect, reassemble, recreate itself and run — and win — again?
Thursday
Facing down the Democratic legal tsunami
To say that the prosecutions are ‘dubious’ is to belittle the unsettling power of dubiety
The rise of BlueAnon
Unhinged left-wing conspiracy theories have entered the mainstream
Tim Walz’s Minnesota vibes
The vice presidential candidate’s biographical points have significant political resonance in 2024
The Basement Government
If the Washington elite had its way, every national government from now until Doomsday would be another Popular Front
Friday
Will Kamala actually appoint a Republican to her cabinet?
Plus: Julie Kelly’s comeuppance
