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Gaza Is Dividing Democrats

No recent Democratic president has faced such fierce internal conflict over a foreign-policy issue. The Iranian attack on Israel has heightened the...

16.04.2024 9

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How Trump Is Fracturing Minority Communities

And why it could propel him to a second term The most succinct explanation for how Republicans expect Donald Trump to win in November may have come...

05.04.2024 6

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Americans Really Don’t Like Trump’s Health-Care Plans

Health care may turn out to be a major winning issue for Democrats. Expanding access to health care has been a shared policy priority for Joe Biden...

29.03.2024 30

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Trump Would Break the Budget

No one is talking enough about one of the most important policy choices at stake in this election. A decision Donald Trump made in his first...

22.03.2024 3

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‘All We Must Do Is Survive Four Years’

The ACLU’s game plan for protecting civil rights through a potential second Trump administration For the venerable American Civil Liberties Union,...

17.03.2024 30

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Biden’s Most Urgent State of the Union Priority

Letting go of the past may be the key to his future. As President Joe Biden prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, his pathways...

07.03.2024 3

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Closing This Gap May Be Biden’s Key to a Second Term

The president still has time to improve his standing on the economy, but that time isn’t unlimited. Just since last November, the most closely...

02.03.2024 10

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In South Carolina Nikki Haley’s Bill Comes Due

The state’s GOP primary showed Donald Trump is dominant yet still vulnerable. The afternoon before Donald Trump’s blowout win in South...

25.02.2024 6

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South Carolina Is About to Reprise Its Historic Role for Republicans

The twist in this year’s South Carolina GOP primary For more than four decades, South Carolina has been the decisive contest in the Republican...

22.02.2024 7

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How the GOP’s Thinking on Key International Issues Evolved

A new Chicago Council on Global Affairs study helps explain why. The long decline of the Republican Party’s internationalist wing may have reached a...

18.02.2024 20

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Will Biden Benefit From a Big Economic Success Story?

His agenda is driving more investment into communities left for scrap. President Joe Biden’s economic agenda is achieving one of his principal...

14.02.2024 20

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Trump’s Immigration Plan Is Even More Aggressive Now

The former president and his aides are formulating plans to deport millions of migrants. Confrontations over immigration and border security are...

08.02.2024 9

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Trump Is About to Steamroll Nikki Haley

The final line of defense against his renomination is crumbling. If one word could sum up Nikki Haley’s ambivalent challenge to Donald Trump in the...

21.01.2024 10

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What Trump’s Victory in Iowa Reveals

The result also offers him some warning signs. Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucus was as dominant as expected, underscoring the exceedingly...

16.01.2024 30

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The GOP’s Big Chill in Iowa

The caucus has lacked energy because Donald Trump’s shrinking field of rivals has never appeared to have the heart for making an all-out case...

15.01.2024 20

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Trump Is Coming for Obamacare Again

His own voters may be collateral damage. Donald Trump’s renewed pledge on social media and in campaign rallies to repeal and replace the Affordable...

10.01.2024 20

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Anti-abortion Conservatives’ First Target If Trump Returns

These efforts are indications of the pressure he and other GOP candidates would face to do so if elected. The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision...

21.12.2023 5

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Why Biden Should Shift the Debate to This Topic

Could this be the president's new strategy to win 2024? President Joe Biden and Democrats cannot win the debate over the economy without fundamentally...

14.12.2023 7

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The Two Republican Theories for Beating Trump

Both strategies so far look insufficient to the challenge. The latest GOP presidential debate demonstrated again that Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are...

10.12.2023 10

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A War on Blue America

In a second term, Trump would punish the cities and states that don’t support him. During his term in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a...

07.12.2023 8

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What the DeSantis and Newsom Debate Really Revealed

The space between red and blue states The best way to understand last week’s unusual debate between Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Ron...

03.12.2023 5

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How Biden Might Recover

The former president just revealed his plan to win a second term. A press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week...

24.11.2023 10

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Democrats Defeat the Polls

This week’s election showed that Republicans still haven’t solved their biggest problem from 2022. Democrats yesterday continued to perform better...

08.11.2023 10

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Can the UAW Unionize Tesla?

The future of green labor For President Joe Biden, this week’s settlement of the United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three domestic...

02.11.2023 6

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‘What Comes Next Will Be … Spectacular’

Trump is becoming more aggressive on immigration than ever before. As president, Donald Trump imposed an array of deeply divisive immigration...

26.10.2023 10

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The Threat to Democracy Is Coming From Inside the U.S. House

Jim Jordan’s advance to the brink of the speakership extends the pattern that has played out within the GOP since Donald Trump became a national...

18.10.2023 70

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The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden’s Core Foreign-Policy Claim

The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast that Biden supporters want to project....

12.10.2023 3

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Virginia Could Decide the Future of the GOP’s Abortion Policy

The issue played a central role in blunting the widely anticipated red wave in last November’s midterm elections. A crucial new phase in the...

08.10.2023 10

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The Only Sin That Republicans Can’t Forgive

Kevin McCarthy’s demise continues a cycle among House Republicans that now traces back nearly half a century. The fall of House Speaker Kevin...

04.10.2023 100

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Biden Lets Venezuelan Migrants Work

The administration had been hesitant to pursue this approach. President Joe Biden’s administration moved boldly yesterday to solve his most...

21.09.2023 2

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The Real Issue in the UAW Strike

Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from good-paying jobs. The United Automobile...

15.09.2023 5

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Red States Are Rolling Back the Rights Revolution

The Supreme Court could send the U.S. back to the 1950s. The struggle over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has...

10.09.2023 10

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