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Restoration in Washington?
In 2008, when Barack Obama chose veteran centrist Joe Biden as his vice-presidential running mate, it seemed a prudent choice: Democrats had already expressed their desire…
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Biden’s foreign policy fairy tale threatens a strategic train wreck
It is mid-September, under two months until the presidential election, and it’s finally time to start taking the polls seriously. And, at present, despite some slippage,…
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Donald Trump’s lonely victory in the Middle East
The US president has trampled over the conventional wisdom of the whole foreign policy establishment Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan, an old…
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Republican plan to hold America hostage
Trump’s party is plotting to do everything they can to sabotage the Biden administration Nobody knows for sure who will win in November. Joe Biden holds…
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How Far Will Donald Trump Go to Win?
The president has bent the Republican Party to his will, and is trying to do the same with democracy and reality itself. Can the Biden-Harris ticket…
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Trump’s generation gap
Young voters look like playing a bigger role than usual in this year’s election Forty-seven million Americans aged eighteen to twenty-nine will be eligible to vote…
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Is Trump Scaring Democrats Away from Vote by Mail?
New evidence suggests he might be—and that could hand him the election. With the election just a few weeks away, Democrats are increasingly afraid to mail…
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How Trump Could Win
The President consistently trails Joe Biden in polls, but political strategists from both parties suggest that he still has routes to reëlection. Among the categories of…
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Is the 9/11 era over?
It’s been almost two decades since the events of 9/11, yet we still live in their shadow. That era-defining terrorist assault on the United States prefigured…
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Who Can Win America’s Politics of Humiliation? Trump or Biden?
About four years ago, without asking anybody, I changed my job description. It used to be “New York Times foreign affairs columnist.” Instead, I started calling…
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US elections: whether Trump or Biden wins, China policies won’t change much, experts say
• Joe Biden and his Obama-era advisers wouldn’t likely hit a reset button on dealings with Beijing • Little trust exists in the US now toward…
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93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful
The vast majority of Black Lives Matter protests—more than 93%—have been peaceful, according to a new report published Thursday by a nonprofit that researches political violence…