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This week, Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination at the RNC. Barry Goldwater did the same thing sixty years ago—and the speech was his downfall.

The tone of Lammy’s anti-Trump statements was more millennial troll than statesman-in-waiting.

From the moment she bounded onto the stage Harris reminded people of why this November’s election is Trump’s for the losing. First came the fake-hysteria of finding herself on a stage in front of all these people.

Yesterday evening’s attack on Donald Trump is reminiscent of the shootings of Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt—and their pitch-perfect response.

A number of our wonderfully informed MPs joined the throngs passing the Lancet’s figure around social media.

In the same way that Joe Biden thinks “What would Hunter suggest?” when he wonders about staying in office, whenever I enter a voting booth I always think “What would George Clooney do?”

When Sir John Gielgud was called upon to eulogize the legendary actress, his well-stocked mind supplied the perfect words.

If the right is to cohere, it will have to have some soggy centrists and some people who are actually right-wing

Yael Alexander, mother of Edan Alexander, wears a t-shirt with an image of his face, as families of American hostages in Gaza join elected officials for a press conference.

Each year something happens that confirms the entire thing has got wildly out of hand

As people who sat through the governor’s lockdowns in California will know, Newsom has long been a fan of the idea that rules do not apply to him.

At a time of widespread discontent with our elected officials, it’s worth recalling Theodore Roosevelt’s speech—about those with the courage to run for high office.