Following the fallout from those conservative senators who did not vote against the government’s Hate Crime Bill last week, I ...

As Trump and Putin spend over an hour on the phone today (Feb. 13 as I write) to talk potential peace, I wish I could have ...

A common feature of successful revolutions is chaos. Those who have sought change, and have succeeded, have very often not ...

Hosting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House on 4 February, President Trump proposed that Gaza’s two million ...

President Trump has made the eminently sensible suggestion that the Gaza Strip be restored and developed under some form of ...

In ceasefire negotiations between Hamas and Israel, Qatar plays a key role as a mediator. The recent and contentious ...

Three cheers for the court victory of our Sam, the battler with the boots of gold. Ever since the spooky tale of Kerr’s ...

Long-term readers of the Speccie will recall that back in 2015 and 2016 I thought, and argued, that all conservative voters ...

The second-highest mountain in New Zealand has been granted ‘personhood’ by the NZ parliament because it is regarded as the ...

I was approached by the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) to write a chapter in a book defending Western ...

There’s an interesting historical pattern in British politics, and you can see it in various shapes and forms since the days ...

New Zealand has just been through the annual bout of anguished breast-beating that marks the anniversary of the 1840 Treaty ...