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Law and border / How Trump got immigration spectacularly right

Law and border / How Trump got immigration spectacularly right

Parts of the MAGA movement are unhappy with President Trump’s migration strategy. The administration has softened its policy on deportations...

21.05.2026 10

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How Trump got immigration spectacularly right

How Trump got immigration spectacularly right

Parts of the MAGA movement are unhappy with President Trump’s migration strategy. The administration has softened its policy on deportations...

20.05.2026 10

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Spectator editorial

How Trump got immigration spectacularly right

How Trump got immigration spectacularly right

Parts of the MAGA movement are unhappy with President Trump’s migration strategy. The administration has softened its policy on deportations...

20.05.2026 10

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Power plays / How will Trump solve the Iran problem?

Has President Trump discovered his “off-ramp” from the war in Iran? His administration insists that Iran’s military power has been crushed, that...

05.05.2026 10

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Power plays / How will Trump solve the Iran problem?

Has President Trump discovered his “off-ramp” from the war in Iran? His administration insists that Iran’s military power has been crushed, that...

02.05.2026 10

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Spectator editorial

How will Trump solve the Iran problem?

Has President Trump discovered his “off-ramp” from the war in Iran? His administration insists that Iran’s military power has been crushed, that...

02.05.2026 10

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Spectator editorial

How Trump loses friends and alienates people

It is a long haul until the midterm elections in November. Many threats and deadlines will have been issued to Iran in that time, many cycles of...

22.04.2026 10

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Golden Age? / Operation Epic Fury is costing Trump his coalition

As US troops flock to danger, Donald Trump seeks ways to disentangle himself from the war on Iran. “We are on track to complete all of America’s...

09.04.2026 10

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Why Iran will hasten MAGA’s demise

Readers may disagree with the cover line of this issue. Pronouncing “the end of Trumpism” feels somewhat similar to declaring “the end of...

26.03.2026 20

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After Trumpism / Why Iran will hasten MAGA’s demise

Readers may disagree with the cover line of this issue. Pronouncing “the end of Trumpism” feels somewhat similar to declaring “the end of...

20.03.2026 10

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The Iran war has exacerbated the failure of European energy policies

The history of the global trading system is a story of narrow and vulnerable waterways: the Suez and Panama Canals, the St. Lawrence Seaway, the...

08.03.2026 20

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Editorial / Trump’s worrying appetite for war

As The Spectator goes to press, a great fleet of American war machines is whirring through the skies toward the Middle East. More than 50 fighter...

03.03.2026 10

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Trump’s worrying appetite for war

As The Spectator goes to press, a great fleet of American war machines is whirring through the skies toward the Middle East. More than 50 fighter...

25.02.2026 20

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Editorial / Trump’s worrying appetite for war

As The Spectator goes to press, a great fleet of American war machines is whirring through the skies toward the Middle East. More than 50 fighter...

21.02.2026 10

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Epstein, the Clintons and the death of trust

Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. After months of...

13.02.2026 80

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