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In the days after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the election, a short clip from 2013 went viral on Twitter. It showed the then...
Her vision of the future is also a nostalgic one. Do enough Americans still believe in it?
IT HAS BEEN nearly a decade since Donald Trump announced his first run for president in 2015. It is sometimes hard to recall the details of...
FOR THE first time since August, Donald Trump has overtaken Kamala Harris in The Economist’s statistical model of America’s presidential election. Our latest forecast gives Mr...
Considering the recent pattern of American politics, the Republicans’ choice to hold their convention this July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is no surprise. Barack Obama easily won...
Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump and Harris’s duel over EVs
“YOU’RE ON live streaming right now,” says Jennifer Liewer, a deputy elections director for Maricopa County, Arizona. “You can wave to your friends.” She takes your...
“That’s not a woman’s position,” a straw-hatted Amish man in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, says wistfully, referring to the presidency. “I’ve got [voter-registration] papers in my pocket...
Politicians rarely tell voters they are wrong. For Democrats trying to sell America’s economic success, the temptation must be strong. As our special report explains, the...
IT WAS ONCE common for states to split their pair of senators between the two major parties. In 2010 there were 19 such states. Today only...
