Like political careers, the great franchise blockbuster saga-dramas only ever end in failure. Why in seven hells did GoT fans expect anything else?

A rapper, a Republican fundraiser, and a missing $1 billion – inside the mysterious influence of China over American politics

Trump’s belligerent talk on Iran, and John Bolton’s posturing, comes easy. Taking down the Iranian regime is a lot harder, perhaps even impossible

Why the sudden bout of tariff reduction with Canada and Mexico? The president is focusing on a one-front trade war with China

Gay marriage is legal. That reality seems to be lost on Alabama Public Television who chose not to air an episode of the much-beloved children’s show Arthur

Maria Butina has seen the worst of America first hand: namely its egregious prosecutorial excesses and susceptibility to overwrought, irrational paranoia

Alabama Public Television has chosen not to air an episode of Arthur, because it showcased a gay marriage between a rat and and an aardvark

Progressives’ thinking is that starting an inquiry may not be tantamount to impeachment, but will help erode Trump’s defiance of Congress

In Newcastle, a hero stepped forth and hurled a plastic cup filled with banana and salted caramel milkshake into Hitler v.1.2’s face

Theresa May says Members of Parliament will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill

Here are the conditions under which Cockburn would be prepared to enter the administration as Immigration Czar. They are very reasonable

A quick burst of masculine aggression, the motor of the porn business, has reshaped the format and duration of political debate

Republicans have yet to clarify what is conservative about supporting a system that will ultimately destroy our environment

Even though the polls screamed that Joe Biden could triumph, much of the commentariat, left and right, couldn’t see it coming

Nigel Farage became the latest British politician to be pelted by a milkshake today, as he toured the center of Newcastle ahead of the European elections

Donald Trump has butted heads with Britain, France and Germany over Iran before, but he may need them should hostilities break out

Daniel Pipes calls Europe’s new nationalist parties ‘Civilizationists’. They come from various backgrounds, and not all of them are on the right

What will Justin Amash be doing after the 2020 election? Surely given his outburst, the Michigan congressman has no intention of returning to Washington

Daniel Pipes, Dominic's guest in The Green Room this week, is an historian, the president of the Middle East Forum, and an analyst of Islam in Europe. They talk about how Europe got to where it is,...

Alexander Nazaryan’s book launch at Molly Jong-Fast’s Upper East Side apartment is the hottest ticket in town this summer for NeverTrumpers

Non-Fiction reviewed. The first hour is a clever and expertly played depiction of a modern media aristocracy in an age of populist revolt

Dealing with the Russians by Andrew Monaghan and We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong by Mark Galeotti reviewed

It is now safe to conclude that the vast majority of the men involved in the Cologne sex attacks will walk free and be allowed to continue living in Germany

Twitter is the most stripped-down of the social media, and thus the most illustrative of their basic flaws. It makes it easy for people to get worse