Neal Pollack is senior editor of The Spectator’s US edition. He is also the author of 12 semi-bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction and a three-time Jeopardy! champion.
On December 15, the White House was the setting for its own romantic holiday movie, though it didn’t involve amnesia or a big-city career gal moving to a small town to reconnect with her high-school boyfriend who’s now a lumberjack and handyman. Instead, President Trump “let the cat out of the bag” by announcing that
I hate to be the bearer of good news, but the US economy is doing quite well. A delayed government report shows that third-quarter GDP grew at 4.3 percent, hardly a record, but still healthy, the highest growth rate in two years. Last week’s inflation report showed a lower-than-expected number, and wage growth is exceeding
Fresh off her appearance at the United Nations, where she spoke eloquently about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, pop star Nicki Minaj made a surprise appearance at this weekend’s Turning Point USA convention in Phoenix, leaving no doubt about where her politics lie. Of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, she said, “This administration is
When I was a boy, Friday nights were time for a new episode of The Rockford Files, a show about a hapless ex con PI, played by James Garner, who lived on a boat in a California marina. Fifty years later, Friday nights are for a different kind of files: the Epstein Files. Usually, government
The president Trump stood at a White House lectern and angrily listed his accomplishments
The FBI Director went on Katie Miller’s podcast with his girlfriend
The US has instead turned over control of your dust bunnies to a company based in Shenzen
The Spectator has got a hold of a new protocol used to screen visitors from 40 countries
The President hosted the Kennedy Center Honors and joked about changing its name
Erika led a charge for a return to traditional values – while Halle likened the menopause to Covid
Their audience isn’t actually the military, but what remains of the anti-Trump ‘Resistance’
At this point, YouTube might as well set up a 24-hour livestream from inside the White House, like the sorts of stunts that were popular at the dawn of the personal video era
Lutnick sounds so much like Trump it’s hard to tell where one man’s monologue ends and the other’s begins
Pete Hegseth tweeted a fake book cover bearing the title ‘Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists’
Trump said that what surprised him the most was how much he and Mamdani had in common
The Delegate from the US Virgin Islands beat a censuring attempt after it was revealed she’d been emailing Epstein during a congressional hearing
‘Please join me in welcoming a daughter of the Caribbean, a champion of the oppressed and a sister in Christ’
The White House communications director saves his harshest vitriol for the press
There’s something deeply disingenuous about Newsom’s endless climate crowing
While The View’s hosts respected his struggles with mental illness, the same can’t be said for the New York Times
