Liz Cheney rehabilitates the family name
Short on women, the Republicans resuscitate a tarnished brand
Curt Mills
Saturday
Tuesday
The inevitability of Joe Biden
Joementum seems unstoppable
Tuesday
Brett Kavanaugh: the MAGA Justice?
The populist right praises his stand against Big Tech
John Bolton really is in charge
The opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem was nothing short of a dark Mass. A ceremony that should have marked the monumental achievement of the Jewish people was instead consecrated in blood. Seated courtside was the man who perhaps more than any other made the embassy happen: Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate. Back in Washington, his man … Read more
Wednesday
What’s the matter with Bernie?
The leader of the pack becomes the biggest loser
Monday
The Democrats are two parties on foreign policy
Liberal 2020 candidates are skittish on national security
Saturday
Is war with Silicon Valley a Trump 2020 strategy?
The president ponders putting social media purges center stage
Monday
Trump’s IRGC designation could be a pretext for war
Stretching America’s AUMF could be next, if need be
Friday
What can Mick Mulvaney bring to the Chief of Staff role?
The OMB chief could be a boon to foreign policy restraint
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
Friday
Leading Brexiteers in DC to talk US-UK free trade agreement
As Theresa May’s government crumbles, David Davis and Owen Paterson make their move
Saturday
Peter Navarro slams Wall Streeters as ‘foreign agents’ hindering the White House
Factionalism within the White House itself and in-fighting over Washington’s China policy was on full display
Wednesday
Stalingrad approaches: Democratic House, Republican Senate
Compared to 1994, 2006, and 2010, this would appear a tamer reaction to an embattled president
Tuesday
As Florida goes, so goes the nation?
It was the beginning of the end for the Left in 2016 and DeSantis and Scott are doing well in the early going. Redux?
Saturday
Hillary Clinton will run in 2020, Steve Bannon claims
‘I don’t think she believes anyone today in this field matches up with her. She’s looking for a rematch ’
Wednesday
John Kerry’s plausible path to the presidency
Many are mocking the former Secretary of State’s septuagenarian ambitions. He could get the last laugh
Friday
Is Anthony Scaramucci the new Roger Stone?
The ousted former Trump ally is following a starkly similar playbook to the master of the black arts
Wednesday
John Bolton’s campaign to be National Security Adviser
In my reporting on John Bolton, the hardline former US Ambassador to the UN, I have noticed a trend. Bolton very clearly wants in. And he has a very specific way of going about it. Some context: despite being a George W. Bush alum, Bolton has largely vociferously backed President Donald Trump. Bolton has been … Read more
Monday
Last week wasn’t President Trump’s worst so far – it was his best
If accounts in the press are to be believed, President Trump has reached a fresh nadir. “These are the darkest days in at least half a year,” reports The Washington Post. “Sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place,” chimes in the impressively-sourced Axios. Buried in the Post story is a … Read more
Friday
Trump is serious about gun control
A friend who works for a prominent, hardline conservative think tank writes: ‘So, can we all admit that Trump is basically a Democrat now on guns?’ On Wednesday, I wrote that American gun reform is close to happening. In the intervening hours, that view has been buttressed by a series of comments from the president … Read more
