Trump inherited a weaponized justice system
The President’s vigorous effort to call to account those who waged lawfare against him is a necessary purgative
American politics
Tuesday
Wednesday
Is Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat?
You get the sense that Taylor Greene has lost interest in the Republican project
Tuesday
I’m done with default illiberalism
Most Americans have more in common with Charlie Kirk than with the alleged shooter or the elites making excuses
Tuesday
Magnificent – but is it war?
The President needs to move on from the insurgency stage of his second administration
Tuesday
Joe Biden’s puzzling legacy
At least since the disaster of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the unavoidable question was: who is running the US government?
Is everything political?
The world is, always was and always will be largely ungovernable and chaotic
Tuesday
How the Blue Dogs have evolved
Their focus is less on the budget and more on representing the views of working-class voters
Why Trump should put himself on the Supreme Court
There’s another office Trump could seek – one that affords as much protection from prosecution or assassination as the presidency does
Am I too Online?
It does not help that everything is political nowadays. Everything
Thursday
An insightful account of America’s decline
Matt Purple’s Decline from the Top: Snapshots from America’s Crisis and Glimmers of Hope is a veritable joy to read
The Democrats need a new rulebook
At the start of this century the party had a very clear picture of what the future was supposed to look like. Trump proved it a mirage
Monday
How — and why — the Democrats ignored the will of the people… again
Only the rarest breed of politician will risk his or her career for the good of the country
Is the fate of democracy truly at stake?
The deepest threat to democracy in our time comes from progressives who reject localized self-government itself
Tuesday
The course of the American empire
Instead of frank acknowledgment and robust action, Biden and his minders have retreated into Stalinist Newspeak
The populism of Machiavelli and Jefferson
In America today, our virtues and successes are our undoing, much more than our vices or failures
Thursday
George Santos spent campaign money on OnlyFans, Botox, makeup and Hermès
As the case moves on to the Department of Justice, Santos has announced that he won’t seek re-election
Wednesday
Battle cry of the politically listless
We are stuck in this weird purgatory between what America used to be and what it is becoming
Monday
Elon Musk should make Twitter weird again
A true town square needs plenty of cranks on milk crates
Tuesday
Politicians are not ‘just like us’
At least Trump won’t go down in the history books as ‘Don’ or ‘Donnie’
Monday
A hazy afternoon with Bill Maher
‘The young people are the prudes and don’t find anything funny’
