Walking around the Ukrainian Village
Self-reliance is an old Ukrainian virtue, one the rest of the world is now seeing in action
Kelly Jane Torrance
Kelly Jane Torrance is the associate editorial page editor of the New York Post.
Thursday
Saturday
Joe Biden’s empathy failure
From our UK edition
Empathy won Joe Biden the White House, we were told. Indeed, as former Republican speechwriter Peter Wehner informed us, ‘In the entire history of American presidential campaigns, there may never have been a wider gap in empathy than between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.’ Sen. Chris Coons said Biden’s ‘ability to comfort and listen and
Thursday
Pelosi caved: what the impeachment rules resolution really means
The House gets egged on Halloween
Wednesday
My ride with Rudy
Three hours on Amtrak with the president’s personal lawyer
Wednesday
Kirsten Gillibrand grabs the greasy pole
The New York senator announced her exploratory committee on Stephen Colbert’s show
Friday
The 116th Congress could be the most unpredictable yet
Nancy Pelosi is just getting started
Tuesday
Political tides have made the ‘blue wave’ impossible
The presidential election of 2016 should have taught pundits and politicos not to trust the polls. But the nation’s most highly educated seem to be the slowest to learn
Sunday
Why aren’t Republicans campaigning on the economy? Trump!
It’s seemed strange for months that the president has declined to focus on the good news for which he might take credit
Thursday
Why are the New York Times’s ‘law professors’ pretending the Kavanaugh hearings weren’t partisan?
And how many of those 650 names do you recognise?
Friday
When did the conservative moral outrage machine get so quiet?
The Evangelicals who were triggered senseless by the Monica Lewinsky affair have been silent about Trump’s transgressions
Tuesday
Who gave Mahmoud Ahmedinejad the moral highground?
He tweets about millionaire American athletes while Tehran burns.
Friday
Yes, the GDP growth is great. But how much of that is down to Trump?
The President is eager to claim economic prosperity as one of his many successes.
Thursday
How Trump uses women to soften his image on immigration
‘My wife feels strongly about it. I feel strongly about it. Anybody with a heart would feel this way.’
Friday
What’s the New York Times’s problem with Britain?
From our UK edition
When Mark Thompson, a Briton, took over as CEO of the New York Times in November 2012, he was under a dark cloud. He’d just served as Director General of the BBC, and the corporation had been accused of covering up the sex crimes of one of its biggest-ever stars, the late Jimmy Savile. Ever keen
Thursday
Why are we rolling out the red carpet for one of North Korea’s most brutal men?
Kim Yong-chol is believed to have ordered the sinking of a South Korean ship, killing 46.
Friday
Trump’s ZTE talks have Congress wondering if he’s putting America first
Finally House Republicans are standing up to the president — and all it took was a Chinese phone company.
Monday
Does Mike Pompeo really think he can cut a good deal with North Korea?
The new secretary of state has already blundered during his short tenure.
Thursday
Nancy Pelosi says she isn’t going anywhere. But why not?
The House Democratic leader’s interview in the Boston Globe came across more cocky than confident
Wednesday
America’s media is letting Iran off the hook
Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has spent the last few days in New York, using American media to make a full-court press in a last-ditch attempt to persuade the United States not to tear up the nuclear deal with his country. As President Trump and Macron discussed what to do about Iran, Zarif complained about the … Read more
Friday
Can Rudy Giuliani handle the job every other high-powered lawyer turned down?
The former mayor of New York has at last secured himself a position in Trump’s White House—but the role is an unenviable one
