Trump’s GOP takeover
How a demagogue remade the Republican Party and transformed US politics.
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What has Kamala Harris been doing?
Kamala Harris’s popularity dwindled as VP. Is she a victim of Joe Biden’s failures or responsible for her own misfortune?
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Oren Cass is building the “intellectual foundations” of the Trump-Vance ticket
The pro-worker policy wonk who wants to save the Republican Party from itself.
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The bloodbath affair
Democrats are making the same mistakes that got Donald Trump elected in 2016.
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Demonising rural voters invites defeat for the Democrats
Progressive tropes about the “bigoted” and “undemocratic” countryside undermine Joe Biden’s efforts to win over rural America.
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The Democrats must forge a political centre based on class, not identity
The party urgently needs to reconnect with the needs of ordinary people in conservative and rural parts of the US.
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Congressman Don Bacon: “Joe Biden does only enough to ensure the Ukrainians can keep a gridlock”
The Republican representative on waning support in the US Congress for aiding Ukraine.
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Is Robert Kennedy Jr a genuine threat to Joe Biden?
Support for JFK’s nephew as a presidential candidate reveals the demand among Democrats for an alternative.
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Joe Biden is too old to run again – but he’s still the Democrats’ best hope
The next generation of Democrats need to step up before he can step down.
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Why Larry Summers is moving left with age
The Clinton-era treasury secretary on why capitalist democracy must change if it is to survive.
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Bernie Sanders: the president who never was
The politician’s new work is a limited and soporific harangue. How did he twice get close to becoming leader of…
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What the strong US midterm results mean for Joe Biden
Democrats kept the Senate and narrowly lost the House. Here’s how that will affect the US president’s agenda.
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Joe Biden shouldn’t run in 2024
No one wants a rerun of the last presidential election – except Donald Trump.
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To save democracy, Americans need to hang out more
The midterms suggest that Alexis de Tocqueville’s 200-year-old warnings about American individualism have come true.
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Will America’s Gen Z save the world?
Younger voters have helped prevent the spread of illiberalism in the US’s midterm elections.
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Abortion is an economic issue – and the Democrats know it
A pledge to protect reproductive rights is a pledge to help working-class families and push poverty rates down.
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The Democrats need to look to a post-Biden future
If the party is to hold the White House, it needs to abandon its innate conservatism over economic justice and…
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US midterm elections 2022
Unpacking the events of the night as they happen.
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The Republican “red wave” has turned into a ripple
Many expected a landslide victory for the right over the Democrats in the US midterms – but the voters had…
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Who will win the US House and Senate?
The New Statesman’s midterm elections forecast looks at whether the Democrats can hold the House on 8 November.
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