Gerard Baker

A post mortem on the 2024 US election focuses more on process than on the party’s poor record or its woke policies

Our situation is far less dire. Unlike the U.K. then, the U.S. is still the world’s envy and its beacon.

Scott Pelley’s hysterical self-indulgence illustrates what’s gone wrong with the American news media.

Scott Pelley's hysterical self-indulgence illustrates what's gone wrong with the American news media.

When America hosted the World Cup in 1994, it was still viewed as an oddity — but today there is genuine excitement

Switch between CA and NY editions here. Well done, California Democrats. We weren't sure you could do it, but you came through.

Regime change would have been desirable, but the U.S. was unwilling to bear the costs of escalation.

Like many before him, Donald Trump was lured by the promise of making history but was undone by hubris and miscalculation

Once Americans knew us for Churchill, Thatcher, Blair. The past decade’s many PMs are seen as a hazy melange of ineptitude and futility

Ending a war unpopular with Maga could push Vance ahead of Rubio, but he’ll need to break the vice-presidential curse