Should we worry about Donald Trump’s poll leads over Joe Biden?
US midterm surveys are historically unreliable – and today’s may prove to be no different.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr is the forty-sixth president of the United States. Biden, born in 1942, was senator for Delaware for 36 years and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before becoming Barack Obama’s vice-president. He assumed office as president on 20 January 2021, having beaten Donald Trump in the election the previous November. Find our latest news and comment here.
The global affairs forecast for 2023: Crisis in Taiwan and Joe Biden’s second run
The New Statesman’s predictions for a turbulent year on the world stage.
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The geopolitical forecast for 2023: Divisions in the West and unrest on Russia’s borders
Predictions for a tumultuous year ahead.
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In January, I made ten predictions for 2022 – how did they turn out?
The New Statesman’s Writer-at-Large reviews what he got right and wrong about the past year.
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Zelensky needed to go to Washington
With the war soon to enter its second year, Ukraine still needs all the Western support it can get.
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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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The weirdness of America’s approach to sick days
The country’s rail strikes reveal a vulnerability in its workforce.
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The underlying tension of Emmanuel Macron’s US state visit
Cracks in the transatlantic alliance would threaten the united front against Russia.
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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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Nixon in China: the complicated legacy of a week that changed the world
Fifty years after the US president’s visit to Beijing heralded a new era of diplomacy, are divisions deepening again?
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Will China retaliate against US tech sanctions?
Though Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s G20 meeting was diplomatically reassuring, they remain engaged in a high-stakes battle.
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping try to avoid a “new Cold War”
What we learned from the Biden-Xi meeting in Bali at the G20 summit.
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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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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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What the US midterm results mean for the war in Ukraine
A bitterly divided government could undermine long-term American support.
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Donald Trump’s comeback has stalled
The former president’s anointed candidates were defeated in key races against the Democrats.
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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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The midterms: a fight for America’s soul
In the key swing state of Pennsylvania, Donald Trump began his march back to the White House. Democrat John Fetterman’s…
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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