The endgame

Fight or flight? Trump mixes signals after midterms

President Donald Trump's political mantra is 'fight, fight, fight.' But he has given decidedly mixed messages about whether he will do so after Republicans were hammered in the midterms....

MAGA slogan: The comeuppance of a despot president

Billions of words have been regurgitated analysing how Democrats flipped so many Republican seats last week. But all that’s really needed are five: Americans flipped off the president. My...

Democrats ready to end Trump’s unpopular actions

Since 1857, the US federal government has been unified 48 times, 23 under Democratic control and 25 under Republican control, while the government has been divided 38 times when...

Trump’s midterm delusion: Why a red wave turned blue

Donald Trump has always been a master of a singular, alternate-reality art form: claiming total credit for every victory and accepting zero responsibility for any defeat. Following the historic...

Democrats can ride ‘blue tsunami’ to White House

They should call 4 November 2026 “Liberation Day”. I made it 4.15am (GMT) when the US networks called the Senate for the Democrats, and the Trump era could officially...

US voters decided enough was more than enough

As Republicans were blown out of the water, America witnessed a clear repudiation of Trumpism, and both personal and familial corruption, according to the Tribune News Service. Tuesday night...

Democrats win US Senate

Democrats have retaken control of the US Senate, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican control of governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to...

US poll: Are educated Republican districts going extinct?

When Democrats rallied for House candidate Cait Conley in Chappaqua, New York, early Saturday morning, the crowd cheered as speakers counted down the minutes until early voting in New...

Where have all good Republican candidates gone?

A wise man once told us “I’m a Democrat at the local level, a Republican at the state level, and a libertarian when it comes to federal politics.” It’s...