Trump is duplicating Biden’s mistake of misreading election results.
Category Archives: International and national
Reasonable, and unreasonable, state and local roles in immigration enforcement
If American politics were healthier, this wouldn’t be such a controversy.
Both proponents and opponents misrepresenting the Laken Riley Act
Democrats cease holding immigration enforcement hostage to legalization.
The politics of a protective tariff don’t work for Trump
The costs of a protective tariff are immediate and traceable, while any benefits are long-term and diffuse.
Democrats didn’t have that bad of an election
Given the adverse presidential playing field, Democrats won a lot of races, nationally and in Arizona, that they easily could have lost, and arguably should have.
Ugly Americanism as a foreign policy strategy
Although not yet president, Trump is throwing Truth Social thunderbolts at other countries.
A big GOP win, but not really a mandate
At both the national and state level, Republicans mostly won seats they should have already held.
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The beginning of the end of U.S. leadership of the free world
A second term for Trump necessitates a recalibration by other democratic capitalist countries regarding their security interests.
An endorsement of non-endorsements
There is a principled argument against newspapers endorsing candidates, although not the one made by Jeff Bezos.
The state of play in the presidential race
Harris has given Democrats a good chance of retaining the presidency. That didn’t seem possible three months ago.