Andrew Cuomo: the Princess Di of the Plague
The rise of the New York governor never had anything to do with reality
Matt Purple
Matt Purple is the online editor of The Spectator's World edition
Sunday
Monday
Joe Biden’s infantilizing everyman theater
Sending the President back to high school is a charmless and patronizing thing
Monday
Joe Biden, the background-noise president
A lack of concern about government overreach is good news for Biden
Friday
No to policing the world
Biden’s foreign policy is rooted in the mythology of the Cold War
Saturday
MAGA arrives at the last level of the video game
For all the pathetic LARPing that took place on Wednesday, what happened inside the Capitol wasn’t a game
Wednesday
The demise of America has been greatly exaggerated
To be an American is to move ever forward, in pursuit of that ‘more perfect union’
Thursday
American meltdown: November’s democratic disaster
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Is this week’s presidential debate a taste of the chaos to come? (00:55) In defence of ‘wokeness’ (15:10) and are male-only spaces immoral? (30:25) With Matt Purple, Senior Editor at the American Conservative; Karin Robinson, host of the Primarily: 2020 podcast; Sam Leith, The Spectator’s Literary Editor; Andrew Doyle, the writer behind Titania McGrath; and
American meltdown: a democratic disaster
From our UK edition
Tuesday night’s debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden was a hopeless mess — a national embarrassment. For 90 minutes, two cantankerous and incoherent old men ignored the rules, shouted over each other and ruined the event. Trump insulted Biden’s intelligence and his children. Biden told Trump to ‘shut up’ and called him ‘a
Friday
Is this the end of American democracy?
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21 min listen
Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination at their virtual convention last night, bringing his three-day coronation to an end with a well-received speech. Throughout this year’s DNC, speakers have warned that America’s political foundations are at stake in the upcoming election – Barack Obama urged voters not to let the Republicans ‘take away your
Thursday
The fatwa artists
Twitter mobs are making journalism and literature more boring
Tuesday
Lacking liquor in Northern Virginia
Even closing liquor stores temporarily is dovetailing into a minor if global trend towards prohibition
Wednesday
2020, the Year of the Drunken Uncle
This election is going to annoy people on Twitter, and there are few callings higher than that
Tuesday
Global warning: 2020 Dems are floundering on foreign policy
We must end forever wars, except when Trump tries to end them
Friday
How to lose votes and bore people
Impeachment and the Democratic primary are the two weakest plot lines of The Donald Trump Show
Wednesday
John Bolton and the nationalist moment
Terminally wrong though he is, there is something fundamentally American about him
Saturday
Presidency Inc.
Running for the highest office in the land is a money-making exercise
Friday
American conservatives look to Europe for inspiration
Three years ago at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) just outside Washington, I convened in a large room with a small group of mostly British expatriates to watch Nigel Farage rail against the European Union. That was then; this is now, and today Farage is one of the event’s most iconic superstars. His
Saturday
The Donald Trump show enters season two
From our UK edition
Next up on America, it’s the season two premiere of The Donald Trump Show. All your favorite characters are back—or are they? Will The Mooch be able to scheme and scream his way back into the White House? Will Steve Bannon, last seen indulging a quaff from his hip flask as a door embossed with
Wednesday
There’s still some method to Donald Trump’s madness
From our UK edition
Donald Trump’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly was both an echo of George W. Bush and something original. At times, one expected the president to lapse into a Texas drawl and warn about ‘nuclear weapons’; at others he was distinctly The Donald. Despite the seeming contradiction, it was a fairly cogent and consistent
Tuesday
This is the moment for Donald Trump’s motor mouth
From our UK edition
Here are some of the many insults that Donald Trump has ladled out over the years. On Senator John McCain: ‘He’s not a war hero.’ On Senator Rand Paul: ‘I never attacked his looks, and believe me, there’s plenty of subject matter right there.’ On Jeb Bush: ‘He’s an embarrassment to his family.’ On Jeb Bush’s family: ‘Do we really need another
