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Politics behind plexiglass
The vice-presidential debate maintained the focus on the US administration’s disastrous mishandling of the pandemic The prevailing wisdom says that vice-presidential debates are merely sideshows to…
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Why Biden will (still) win
Donald Trump’s diagnosis doesn’t change the electoral fundamentals Donald Trump has just created the biggest October surprise in American electoral history, and we won’t know for…
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October Surprise: How Foreign Policy Can Shape US Presidential Elections
It’s debate season in the US presidential election race. After the chaos of the first debate, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be hoping to…
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US presidential debate changes little
In 1858, in the (then) western state of Illinois, a remarkable political event occurred: Two of the most deep-thinking men in American politics took part in…
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Donald Trump has COVID-19. How might this affect his chances of re-election?
With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump.…
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America is in pain. The presidential debate offered no help
Donald Trump spent the evening whining in a circus of vanity, lies and hostility With more than 200,000 Americans dead from Covid-19, the economy in tatters,…
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Trump and Biden clash in chaotic debate – experts react on the court, race and election integrity
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took part in a presidential debate Sept. 29 that exemplified the lack of civility in American politics.…
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Just Accept It: The Supreme Court Has Always Been Political
In the wake of President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, pundits of all ideological stripes lament that the fight over the…
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Donald Trump Barely Pays Any Taxes: Will Anyone Care?
Three enterprising reporters for the New York Times published a bombshell report Sunday evening on Donald Trump’s financial life, making it clear that the President of…
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The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? There is a cohort…
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The Legal Fight Awaiting Us After the Election
The aftermath of November’s vote has the potential to make 2000 look like a mere skirmish. The immediate aftermath of the Presidential election of 2000 has…
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The Economic Case for Biden
US President Donald Trump has seeded the investment environment with uncertainty, trashed America's trade relationships, blown up the fiscal deficit, and left American workers worse off…