Michael Bloomberg has become the 2020 anti-candidate
He insults Democratic contenders, and sounds increasingly petty.
Freddy Gray
Sunday
Sunday
Can the Republican Party finally win over minority voters?
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Republican strategists have long complained about how, every election, the Democrats mobilise minority groups against them. Now they’re trying to turn the tables. Right-wing social media warriors, encouraged by @realDonaldTrump, have spent months talking about ‘Blexit’: a black voter exit from the Democratic party. This week, the President and others have begun calling
Thursday
The most shocking thing about Trump’s Brexit comments? He’s right
From our UK edition
Tune out all the noise around Brexit, and read what Donald Trump said today: ‘I’m surprised at how badly it’s all gone from the standpoint of a negotiation,’ he told reporters at a bilateral meeting with Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. ‘But I gave the Prime Minister my ideas on to negotiate it and I think you
The Democrats’ anti-Semitism problem
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Republican strategists have long complained about how, every election, the Democrats mobilise minority groups against them. Now they’re trying to turn the tables. Right-wing social media warriors, encouraged by @realDonaldTrump, have spent months talking about ‘Blexit’: a black voter exit from the Democratic party. This week, the President and others have begun calling
Monday
The miserable, squalid campaign to stifle Tucker Carlson
The Fox News host’s only real crime is daring to be provocative in a dull media world
Thursday
Return of the Bern
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Bernie in PC mode sounds unnatural, like a vicar talking about grime music. It makes millennials swoon Bernie Sanders likes private jets. That, at least, is the malicious word being put about by Hillary Clinton’s former aides this week, just days after Sanders announced that he is again running for president. Sanders, you’ll
Tuesday
Bernie Sanders’ rivals will struggle to defeat him
From our UK edition
The Democratic nomination process for 2020 is a race and Bernie Sanders should be the overwhelming favourite. He’s just announced his candidacy, and he’s the form horse, having come a close second in 2016. He won 46 per cent of elected delegates and 23 states. He smashed all sorts of fundraising records. He has a
Tuesday
How Trump could monster Beto O’Rourke in 2020
The former Texas congressman ticks a lot of the right wrong boxes
Thursday
One Nation Trumpism
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Trump is articulating an upbeat vision for America, while Democrats talk only of the misery he causes Donald Trump, the unity president — doesn’t sound right, does it? Trump is, we know, divisive. Under his administration, America is polarised to the point of madness. Democrats and Republicans despise each other, culture wars rage,
Wednesday
Trump is divisive. He splits his opposition perfectly
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Donald Trump, the unity president — doesn’t sound right, does it? Trump is, we know, divisive. Under his administration, America is polarised to the point of madness. Democrats and Republicans despise each other, culture wars rage, sane people speculate about another civil war. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, however,
Monday
Abortion and the new covert culture war
The two sides of the debate don’t inhabit the same universe
Thursday
The women lining up against Trump
From our UK edition
Washington, DC It’s no secret that President Donald Trump has women problems. His relationship with his wife seems strained. Feminists loathe him. His popularity among the opposite sex is lower than ever, according to the polls. And, to rub salt into his wounded machismo, he appears to have just lost a fierce political battle over
Monday
Trump didn’t cave
Democrats and journalists are, as usual, far too quick to declare Trump ‘totally’ defeated
Sunday
The rise and rise of the daddy big bucks candidate
Billionaire presidential campaigns are a great excuse for political consultants to try and flatter super-rich men
Thursday
The frozen swamp
From our UK edition
Washington, DC As a prison worker in Florida put it, ‘Trump’s not hurting the right people’ Washington is supposed to be recession-proof: when times are bad, the government just hires more. But the city isn’t shutdown-proof. There are more than 360,000 federal employees in the DC area, and many are among the 800,000 across America
Monday
The shutdown hurts the President. Still the anti-Trump media can’t keep off Russia
The latest allegations feel thinner than usual — yet still they’ve dominated the airwaves and Twitter feeds of media VIPs
Thursday
Wrinkled, white, and wrong — this is the face of the Democratic party
From our UK edition
Ignore the colourful and fresh-faced Democrats filling up your social media feed. The new face of their party is the same as the old one. It is a white, wrinkled face that no amount of plastic surgery can reconfigure. It is Chuck & Nancy; Schumer and Pelosi, the dinosaurs who don’t die. They aren’t likable, to
Thursday
Ever Trump
From our UK edition
Washington, DC Trump never sleeps, loyalists say – he spends every hour Making America Great Again Donald Trump derangement syndrome works both ways. It makes the President’s enemies hate him so much they go insane. It also affects Trump’s allies and supporters, who love him so much that they have become demented. Among Republicans in
Saturday
As Kelly departs, is Trump making the White House great again?
Trump loyalists are delighted at the general’s exit
Wednesday
The Special Relationship between the Bushes and the Queen
Prince Charles is attending Bush 41’s funeral
