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Trump only harms himself by floating the idea of a third term

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Third term?

Trump only harms himself by floating the idea of a third term

The courts and the public will render the classic New Jersey verdict, ‘fuhgeddaboudit!’

Charles Lipson

‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump

POTUS on his second term, Nixon, Ukraine — and the tush push

Ben Domenech

The deeper meaning behind Trump’s blizzard of actions

He has two overriding goals: to build a lasting MAGA movement and to roll back the bureaucratic state

Charles Lipson

Giles Milton retells the story of the Grand Alliance as a cinematic thriller

In the hands of a less skilled writer, The Stalin Affair could easily have been rather dull

Mark Piesing

Politics

Should Joe Biden really be running for president again?

He is, in the words of British historian Niall Ferguson ‘manifestly senile’

Nigel Jones

Politics
December 24, 2022
A Winston Churchill Christmas
The British prime minister addressed the American people from the White House eighty-one years ago today
Ben Domenech
Politics
November 17, 2021
Biden isn’t FDR
He’s just another politician
John R. MacArthur
Books
October 15, 2020
Diplomatic daughters go behind the scenes at Yalta
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz reviewed
Juliet Nicolson
Books
September 17, 2020
The Special Relationship was never very special
The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit by Ian Buruma reviewed
Christopher Meyer
Europe
July 2, 2020
Mission impossible: Boris’s attempt to rewire the British government
The state has failed the COVID stress test
James Forsyth
Europe
July 1, 2020
If Boris wants to channel Roosevelt, he should end lockdown
As a species we must stop cowering and havering. Let’s be prudent but let us also be a little brave
Conrad Black
Europe
June 29, 2020
Boris’s Roosevelt remedy isn’t what Britain needs
If there is a lesson to be learned from the 1930s, it should be a British one
Matthew Lynn
Politics
March 21, 2020
America is socialist, dummy
Let us count the ways…
Patrick Allitt
Books
March 6, 2020
Around the world in 49 days
The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World by Samuel Zipp reviewed
David Bahr
Books
March 7, 2019
America’s empire – a story of the secret and the convenient
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr reviewed
Stephen Phillips

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