Ben Domenech

Exclusive poll: are you proud to be an American?

12 August 2025 9:48 pm

With the 250th anniversary of America’s founding approaching next year, the majority of Americans are happy to applaud their country…

Why Trump is right to take over DC

12 August 2025 3:44 am

Donald Trump‘s press conference announcing a federal takeover of Washington, DC‘s police force was packed to the gills with White…

Theater kids are holding Texas hostage

7 August 2025 1:21 am

The theater kids are at it again. The Texas Democratic Party is engaged in yet another performative act of resistance –…

Just how high did the Russiagate farce originate?

25 July 2025 12:53 pm

Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification of documents that support the view that the intelligence community engaged in a deliberate conspiracy to target the…

Why Trump’s ‘Washington Whatevers’ threat matters

23 July 2025 12:54 am

In The Spectator’s lengthy sit-down interview with President Trump earlier this year, 45 teased the idea that the return of Washington’s…

Will Trump bail out Texas Republicans?

18 July 2025 1:10 am

With the retirement of North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, the Republican with the heaviest Senate primary burden in 2026 becomes John…

The great big, beautiful risk

2 July 2025 8:42 pm

The electoral risk to politicians involved in passing a dog’s breakfast of a “big, beautiful bill” – and there have…

Trump shows the world what he’s made of

22 June 2025 11:13 pm

In what will likely be remembered as the most monumental decision of his presidency, Donald Trump decided to pull the…

The left needs a Joe Rogan – why not Tucker?

21 June 2025 7:41 pm

For months, the conversation on the American left has revolved around that thorny question: where can we find our own…

Trump: America First, c’est moi

17 June 2025 1:22 am

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty told Alice scornfully, “it means just what I choose it to mean –…

Gavin Newsom blew his chance to stand for law and order

10 June 2025 1:42 am

Gavin Newsom had a golden opportunity this week to prove that he’s learned something in the time since the summer…

Why you should fear the post-DoGE right

5 June 2025 4:20 am

Elon Musk’s departure from Washington was celebrated by many in the media. In the space of just a few years…

Dan Patrick’s war on weed gummies could endanger Texas Republicans

31 May 2025 3:31 am

In a press conference that veered into awkward sketch comedy in Austin, Texas, yesterday, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick railed at…

One Big Beautiful win for House Republicans

23 May 2025 2:15 am

The passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” early Thursday morning by the slimmest of margins in the House…

Don’t let SALT levels bring down the BBB, says Trump

21 May 2025 6:05 am

The reaction to President Trump’s meeting with GOP members on Capitol Hill today was decidedly mixed, especially for the so-called…

Can Team Trump’s most MAGA members end Jeffrey Epstein talk?

20 May 2025 5:37 am

Few people can claim the mantle of being more identified with the anti-Deep State MAGA movement than Kash Patel and…

Democrats should call for more honesty about Joe Biden’s health

20 May 2025 12:32 am

The announcement of former president Joe Biden’s diagnosis for advanced prostate cancer is of course a sad event, as it…

James Comey just needs your attention

18 May 2025 1:58 am

Let’s sit down and have a talk about James Comey, America’s tallest teenage girl. Typically the conversation around the nation’s…

The ‘big, beautiful’ bill is Speaker Johnson’s first major test of Trump 2.0

15 May 2025 3:32 am

There’s a nickname for House Speaker Mike Johnson shared among some Hill staffers and observers: “Deacon Mike,” a nod to…

Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics

14 May 2025 3:27 am

New polling data shows what you may already suspect: your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election of Donald…

NFL in DC is the ultimate lefty YIMBY-NIMBY showdown

7 May 2025 12:51 am

A pair of announcements by the National Football League in collaboration with Washington, DC has local citizens more excited than…

How Christopher Rufo is changing American education

6 May 2025 6:56 pm

As fire-breathing counter-revolutionaries go, Christopher Rufo seems notably mild-mannered. Perhaps it’s his northern California roots and Pacific Northwest home that…

Whitmer’s smart play for Trump’s voters

1 May 2025 11:18 am

“I’m that same woman from Michigan,” Governor Gretchen Whitmer told Fox 2 Detroit Tuesday night, when asked about her changing…

Josh Hawley talks Trump’s first 100 days: pro-life ‘needs to be a priority’

1 May 2025 1:46 am

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has been one of Donald Trump’s fiercest allies on Capitol Hill. But since his easy…

A mammoth 100 days of Trump’s America First foreign policy

30 April 2025 12:43 am

One hundred days into the second Donald Trump presidency, his presence in the Oval Office represents the largest sea change…