Democrats Articles

When you check into the last chance saloon, it pays to have back-up. This is something Ted Cruz has taken to heart, if the surprise appointment of Carly Fiorina as his vice-presidential nominee is anything to go by. The question most commentators are asking is whether...

‘Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious.’ So wrote the celebrated Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu in The Art of War. An analogous maxim for the political arena could well be, ‘Those who know when to debate and when not to debate win...

If you are looking for a case study of contemporary American politics, forget the campaign trail for a while and take a close look at the fortunes of Merrick Garland. Apparently Garland, Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has a resume that ‘makes you want...

Americans often do a much better job of naming things than Brits. If the title of the Apollo Project, the Grand Canyon or the Empire State Building had been decided in the United Kingdom, each would doubtless have sounded a lot less dramatic. ‘Super Tuesday’ is a case...