FEW REPUBLICAN politicians differ more from Donald Trump than Larry Hogan, the GOP Senate candidate in Maryland. Consider the contrasts between a Trump rally and a...
HURRICANE MILTON smashed into Florida’s west coast late on October 9th near Siesta Key, a barrier island south of Sarasota. Winds raged at 120mph (193kph). The...
A cynic might gaze at the photograph and sigh that nothing changes in American life: a black woman, a candidate for president, stands before a crowd...
The next president will inherit the most ambitious climate policies in American history. Under Joe Biden a trio of laws—the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan...
Presidential elections don’t often turn on debates about defence spending, in part because funding the armed forces is one of the few bipartisan traditions left in...
MANY AMERICAN presidents have dreamt of bringing peace to the Middle East. Some could claim successes: Jimmy Carter oversaw the Camp David accords between Israel and...
ALTHOUGH BRITAIN still claims to have a “special relationship” with the United States, no country could contest China’s claim to have the most important one. America’s...
OF DONALD TRUMP’S many contributions to American life, few have been more innovative than that to political elocution. No longer must a politician use one exclamation...
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, visited America in September to speak at the United Nations and present a “victory plan” to his American patrons. The...
PART OF BEING Donald Trump is saying outrageous things. Yet what was outrageous in 2011 (suggesting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya) seems almost quaint...