Hugo Gurdon

Washington, D.C.

Editor-in-Chief at Washington Examiner

Editor-in-Chief, Washington Examiner

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Articles

Putin plays Trump like a balalaika

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing President Donald Trump like a balalaika. That is how to understand Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s airy announcement Tuesday in Turkey that Putin and Trump have agreed to exchange Americans held in Russian prisons for Russians detained by the United States. You can hear the soothing tinkle of music intended to lull the U.S. into yet more weeks of inaction while the tyrant in the Kremlin continues on his mission to murder Ukrainian civilians.
What Biden didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

In the half-century since Watergate, political scandals have been given the suffix “gate” to suggest importance, real or ludicrous. Think “Irangate,” “Bridgegate,” or “Pizzagate.”But the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s physical and mental collapse by White House officials and lickspittles in left-liberal news media won’t fit.
What Democrats lost, or threw away

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

The two main parties say the other has betrayed its principles. Their switch, to appeal to those not once seen as their traditional base, is something to behold. Democrats point to President Donald Trump’s tariffs and ask what happened to the Republican understanding of the merits of free trade? Republicans also now favor other economic policies once of the Left, such as price fixing for “fairness” and opposition to reform of entitlements that are bankrupting the country.
Resistance media can’t handle the truth

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

President Donald Trump wants to boost domestic manufacturing, but one sector has already massively increased output — of bogus news stories by hostile and biased media. High productivity of superficial, misleading, and hostile “news” has always characterized Trump’s 10 years in politics. But it’s worth examining afresh because the 2024 election briefly encouraged hope that media shock might stop the news rot.
Trouble at the northern border

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Commentary on Canada’s anti-Trumpian election result missed a key point, which is that it was due to many Canadians being anti-American bigots. I say this startling thing despite being blessed with Canadian relatives and friends whom I love, despite admiring and liking many others, and despite (perhaps because of) having for decades visited, lived in, and worked in Canada.
Will Trump make bad deals with China, Iran, and Russia?

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

President Donald Trump’s effort to strike deals simultaneously with China, Iran, and Russia will be rewarded with accolades if any of them succeed and with astonished recognition that miracles happen if all of them do. But the folly of previous presidents’ dealings with these pariah states offers a condign warning. The itch of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to secure world-changing agreements blinded them to what they were really doing.
Review of ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Some historical fiction is uncontroversial because it presents the past merely as a backdrop for a story that does not suggest new facts or challenge widely accepted interpretations. Other successful creations go the other way, dispensing with the truth so brazenly that they render caveats fatuous because their narratives aren’t so much revisionist history as counterfactual fantasy.
Harvard’s billions are a privilege, not an entitlement

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Harvard University’s lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars of federal funding encapsulates a tendency among those who receive grants and other taxpayer largesse to treat these subventions not as privileges but as entitlements. There is an old insightful maxim that he who pays the piper calls the tune. It should apply as much to the nation’s most prestigious university as it does to everyone else. And as a practical matter, it does, or will.
Capitol Hill on Thune control

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump scored a big win on April 10 when the House voted for the Senate’s budget framework 216 to 214. Big? It was ’uge, as the president sometimes puts it. Here’s why. It means the 2017 tax cuts are likely to be renewed, not expire at the end of the year, thus avoiding a $4.5 trillion tax hike. This means more economic growth, more thriving businesses, more plentiful jobs, and more voters seeing conservative governance working for the good of the nation.
Here’s hoping there’s method in Trump’s tariff madness

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

There is a point in football games when a team staring defeat in the face gets desperate and starts trying trick plays and throwing Hail Mary passes. It has no option but to resort to long bombs and onside kicks because they might snatch a surprise win, and nothing else has managed to do so thus far. But the very outlandish boldness of such moves bespeaks alarm rather than confidence.