The fiscally challenged Europeans, we’re told, are ready to take up the lion’s share of their defence costs. If you believe that, I have several bridges over the Rhine, the Thames and the Danube to sell you.
President is alarming his base by abandoning core promises, from bombing Iran to debunking the Epstein conspiracy.
You may loathe the man and think he is a menace to all that is good and decent on planet Earth, but from the simple analytical perspective of making government work he has no equal in the modern world.
Desperate for change, exasperated New Yorkers have picked left-wing progressive Zohran Mamdani, a candidate who is bound to let them down.
You could make a strong case that every American president in the past 50 years has seen his presidency undone to one degree or another by ill-fated embroilment in the Greater Middle East.
The US President has the habit of turning rational, credible people into raving zealots and California’s governor is no exception.
The President’s populism isn’t entirely popular among business leaders.
The immediate and relevant lesson of the Musk episode is this: when you do business with Donald Trump there’s only one winner. And it’s not you.
Party’s senior figures will have to answer for what they knew about efforts to dupe voters about the president’s health.
His Riyadh speech lays out a foreign policy stressing US economic interests shorn of idealism.
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