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Oct 23, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Europe Europe |Nicholas Farrell |Cat Castellanos

I was raised Republican the way other kids are raised Catholic or Protestant.  My mother is a Rush Limbaugh-loving Southerner who has never met a conspiracy theory she didn’t like. My father, Alex Castellanos, while less likely to pick up a torch, ran Republican presidential campaigns and has been a commentator on several Sunday shows and news networks. If you’re trying to place him, he looks eerily like the MyPillow guy. As I grew up, DC politics permeated every aspect of my life.

Oct 22, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Europe Europe |Nicholas Farrell |Freddy Gray

Small wonder that Donald Trump is dodging a new debate with Kamala Harris. If her latest television interview was anything to go by, she is a much smoother public performer than only a few months ago. She was quite steely, making her points with concision and snap. Harris may like to talk about joy, but she displayed little of it in her interview with Hallie Jackson of NBC News. Instead, Harris, in fending off several pointed questions, ensured that what was on display was her formidably stern side.

Oct 22, 2024 | thespectator.com | Nicholas Farrell |Europe Europe |Freddy Gray |Ben Domenech

Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, has this week achieved what Britain’s Tories failed so fatally to do with their doomed Rwanda scheme. Thanks to her determination and charm, Italy has become the first European nation to successfully offshore illegal migrants to a non-EU country.

Dec 31, 2023 | thespectator.com | Louise Perry |Cat Castellanos |Jacob Heilbrunn |Europe Europe

My husband and I got a Peloton bike for the usual reasons: because we were time-poor, money-rich and feeling fat. And we kept using it for the usual reason: because we wanted to please the gorgeous ghosts in the machine. The American fitness brand Peloton employs some of the most beautiful, athletic and charismatic people ever to have lived.

Aug 31, 2023 | thespectator.com | Tim Rice |Stephen Miller |Raj Tawney |Europe Europe

The biggest purveyor of misinformation at the moment isn’t a podcast host or a foreign adversary. It’s a brewery. Since announcing the release of its flagship Pumpkinhead Ale on August 1, Shipyard Brewing has commenced a cheeky ad campaign declaring that the dog days of summer are actually the perfect time to enjoy a fall beer.