Conservatism
The midterms delivered a feeble rivulet, not a blue wave
The effort to Make America Great Again will continue, just a little more slowly and circuitously than it would have done had the Republicans held the house
Stalingrad approaches: Democratic House, Republican Senate
Compared to 1994, 2006, and 2010, this would appear a tamer reaction to an embattled president
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
The Trumps are focused on securing the Senate
Much of the Trump clan is pitching in to help overcome any lingering inhibitions in key red states
Why are Democrats blue?
It is surely time to revise our prejudices concerning both red and blue
Kanye West is the gift that keeps giving
Every time you think you understand him, he does something incomprehensible
Should Donald Trump spend his ‘Executive Time’ learning how to empathise?
There is no malignant phrase Trump is not ready to utter
What’s wrong with the Right?
From paranoid style to paranoid acts
Ben Shapiro: ‘despicable idiocy’ to say I incite terrorism
His accuser, Nathan Bernard, calls himself a free-speech advocate
Revealed: Cesar Sayoc’s back-up Twitter account
The other one follows a lot of conservatives
Why are fake bombs sent to Democrats more shocking than real ricin packages to Republicans?
Democrats have a history of rhetoric that glorifies and encourages political violence
The Democrats need a political entrepreneur
Reagan, Gingrich and Trump all transformed their parties. The Democrats don’t have anyone that can do that
Is the prospect of prison time enough to crack Roger Stone?
Coming weeks may show whether Stone rolls on Trump or not
Beto O’Rourke may be the opposite of Trump – but is that what Texas wants?
The boyish challenger is increasingly popular...among wealthy liberals in $2 million homes
Let’s speak ill of Dennis Hof
The now dead Trumpist candidate was a vile creature for whom women were nothing but a commodity
Oh no: Charles Koch’s favourite economist is a huge racist
F. A. Harper loved Western Destiny, a magazine that vouched for repatriating black people to Africa
Gavin McInnes: ‘Personally I think the guy was looking to get beat up for optics’
The leader of the Proud Boys believes his group were provoked by ‘antifa’ activists
Kanye West is winning Trump over with flattery. Does that make him a ‘madman’?
Maybe he’ll seem less crazy down the line when federal subsidies arrive for ‘Yeezy ideation centres’
For Max Boot, the road from Baghdad leads to the road to Damascus
Boot socks the Republicans and dips a toe among the Democrats, but can he find a footing?
What Putin and Trump understand about UFC
There is no political correctness in cage fighting. But that’s not to say it’s not political
What’s the matter with Kansas? Trump heads inland to find out
For all its reputation as a deep-red state, Kansas conservatives are not very well organised
How Trumpian should a GOP candidate be to win a midterm?
Trump imitators tend not to fare as well as the real thing
The truth is we prefer to lie
We will never know the truth of the Kavanaugh case unless one of the two principal actors ’fesses up — and even then I wouldn’t be too sure
Republicans should have seen the Brett Kavanaugh ambush coming – Richard Nixon did
‘The hearings themselves have become a scandal,’ said the 37th president of the Clarence Thomas allegations in 1991. How right he was
WATCH: Christian Bale’s uncanny Dick Cheney
A retrospective about the last Republican presidency comes just at the right time
