The next president will inherit the most ambitious climate policies in American history. Under Joe Biden a trio of laws—the CHIPS and Science Act, the Bipartisan...
Presidential elections don’t often turn on debates about defence spending, in part because funding the armed forces is one of the few bipartisan traditions left in...
MANY AMERICAN presidents have dreamt of bringing peace to the Middle East. Some could claim successes: Jimmy Carter oversaw the Camp David accords between Israel and...
ALTHOUGH BRITAIN still claims to have a “special relationship” with the United States, no country could contest China’s claim to have the most important one. America’s...
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, visited America in September to speak at the United Nations and present a “victory plan” to his American patrons. The...
PART OF BEING Donald Trump is saying outrageous things. Yet what was outrageous in 2011 (suggesting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya) seems almost quaint...
NOT ONLY are taxes one of the only certainties in life, they are also one of the only certainties in this election. That is because of...
How the campaigns are exploiting and reshaping the battle of the sexes
“I WANT YOU to pick a sport to award $1m to,” Sondra Cosgrove tells her audience. Ms Cosgrove, a community-college professor, is trying to teach Nevadans...
GO TO ANY American high school holding an election for class president and inevitably one candidate will craft an agenda of alluring promises—free pizza at lunch,...