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Readers may disagree with the cover line of this issue. Pronouncing “the end of Trumpism” feels somewhat similar to declaring “the end of history” – a provocative, albeit less grandiose, statement that risks being mocked in the near future. We should start by saying we hope that we are wrong. Trumpism, as this magazine understands
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The history of the global trading system is a story of narrow and vulnerable waterways: the Suez and Panama Canals, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Straits of Dover and the Skagerrak, which defends the entrance to the Baltic. But none has the power to seize up the global economy as much as the Strait of
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As The Spectator goes to press, a great fleet of American war machines is whirring through the skies toward the Middle East. More than 50 fighter jets, plus stealth bombers and support aircraft, are joining what Donald Trump called an “armada” of US naval forces in the Arabian seas. The White House continues to say
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Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. After months of resisting, the former president and his wife have now agreed to testify before the House. Clinton will be the first former president to appear before Congress since 1983, when Gerald Ford discussed
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Donald Trump has completed the first year of his second presidency – and remains a truly divisive figure. He may have pulled back, after an absurd escalation, from his apparent threat to annex Greenland by force. But European leaders continue to berate him for his turbulent behavior in international affairs, and a growing number of
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Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did not undermine international law, as many European and Democratic politicians have said. But it did expose the weakness and pomposity of the world’s multilateral bodies. Maduro traded oil for loans with China while helping Moscow
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No one ever tucked themselves up in bed to read a government document – at least not in the expectation of enjoying it. The standard format is one of hundreds of pages of impenetrable jargon yielding no more than nuggets of significant ideas. The Trump administration has admirably cut through that tendency to produce a
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The accelerated development of AI is not just a business opportunity but a strategic necessity
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If voters feel they are going backward, then the vaulting success of the stock market or the tech sector can feel like an insult
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The country’s tycoons are abandoning old orthodoxies with speed
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It is no longer so easy for the cartels to bring personnel, drugs and weapons across the border
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The President’s claim to greatness is built on the pretext that he can cut deals which no other US president could
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The Trump administration should encourage not a fiery MAGA response but a return to church
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The President needs to move on from the insurgency stage of his second administration
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We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
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Modern governments like to imagine that their spending helps to boost growth, thereby easing the burden of debt. Yet the opposite is true
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For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
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What will happen if the Trump administration stumbles into a war it wasn’t planning on?
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There is a chink in Trump’s strategy
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Trump is sitting on his bulldozer tearing down the frumpy façade of the old building, but as yet he is showing us only glimpses of what he intends to replace it with
