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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian O’Doherty |Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s White House encounter with Donald Trump was controversial even before it was announced.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Steve Hsu |Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg
Before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk caused a huge controversy within the MAGA movement by advocating increased high-skill immigration. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency he wanted, for example, to expand the H-1B visa program, which many Trump supporters are against. The angry debate over the visa issue still rages on social media and both sides tend to talk past each other. The MAGA movement is against any increase in immigration, whether high- or low-skill.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg |Alexander Larman
Could it be that Donald Trump actually wants a bear market now? At some point, one was bound to happen on his watch — after all, US equities weren’t going to keep up their stunning gains from the past two years for the rest of his term. A market correction was inevitable, and it seems we’ve already seen that, as the S&P 500 dipped into correction territory this week. And a bear market was almost certainly coming, given that there have been 27 of them in the S&P index since 1928.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Sergey Radchenko |Jane Stannus |Matthew Lynn |Michael Evans
After Ukraine accepted America’s 30-day ceasefire proposal, all eyes are on Russia’s reaction. Will Vladimir Putin — who, as President Trump has incredulously claimed, has all the cards, and at the same time no cards at all — go along with the US proposal, or choose to snub it? To answer this question, it is important to understand what Putin is trying to do.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Orson Fry |Sergey Radchenko |Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball
It’s been almost 100 years since Arcady Fixon, a refugee from the Russian Revolution, opened the doors of Caviar Kaspia on Place de la Madeleine in Paris, and began beguiling his fellow exiles and the crème of Paris society with the exotic flavors of his homeland: shiny black caviar, served with blinis or potatoes, and ice-cold vodka.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Matt McDonald |Derek VanBuskirk |Sergey Radchenko |Teresa Mull
The Senate may be filled with octogenarians, but it defied the odds this week with a marathon “vote-a-rama” that lasted almost ten hours — just in time to set it up on a collision course with the Republican-led House across the Capitol. Despite the stated preference of President Donald Trump for “one big, beautiful bill” for reconciliation, the Senate pushed through a giant reconciliation bill, which will be smaller than whatever the House seems poised to pass.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Matt McDonald |Sergey Radchenko |Teresa Mull |Freddy Gray
National Harbor, MarylandElon Musk made a surprise appearance at CPAC Thursday afternoon, where Argentinian president Javier Milei presented him with a chainsaw. “This is a chainsaw for bureaucracy!” Musk said, brandishing it before a whooping crowd. The Department of Government Efficiency chief took to the stage with Newsmax host Rob Schmitt. Musk wore his MAGA hat — “dark gothic MAGA!” as he said — a black jacket and mirror shades, which he kept on for the duration of his appearance.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Sergey Radchenko |Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball |Ross Clark
The American president has pioneered a new form of diplomacy: betrayal by tweet. The mean-spirited, autocrat-indulging Donald J.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Dmitri Alperovitch |Sergey Radchenko
There are good reasons to believe Mr. Kim might play ball. Despite North Korea's traditional alliance with China and its deepening relationship with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Mr. Kim knows that these two patrons have a history of being unreliable. They have meddled in his country's internal affairs in the past, sacrificing its needs and interests when it served their purposes.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Michael Evans |Mark Galeotti |Matthew Lynn |Sergey Radchenko
The victorious Syrian rebel leader now in control of Damascus has already learned a key lesson in history. After his forces swept into the capital, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, head of the Islamic militant group, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), might have been expected to lay waste to all the institutions which had helped to keep the repressive Assad dynasty in power for fifty-three years, but instead he chose pragmatism.
