Indian Americans constitute a mere 1.5% of the population, but their impact on American politics can be disproportionate, a political scientist argues.
The fringe QAnon conspiracy theory has been creeping into the mainstream.
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While the debates about Kamala Harris’ multiraciality may seem new, they are similar to the commentary other high-profile mixed-race people in the US have received about their racial identities.
Ant Group is the payments powerhouse behind Alibaba.
Piotr Swap
Five of the six contested presidential elections in U.S. history were resolved and the country moved on – one ended in civil war. What will happen if the upcoming election is contested?
History should give Trump reasons for optimism. The presidential elections in 1968 and 1988 provide a template for Republican victory on a law-and-order platform in 2020.
In Massachusetts, you usually wait your turn. But Joe Kennedy III decided to jump the queue.
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There aren’t any clear ideological differences between the two, and Senate incumbents who aren’t embroiled in scandal rarely, if ever, lose. So what’s Kennedy’s calculation?
Trump accepts the nomination from the South Lawn of the White House.
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A hostile Senate has, in recent history, made the president’s job very difficult. To really effect change, Democrats need to not just win the White House, but Congress too.
As president, Trump has cultivated close relations with autocratic leaders while distancing the U.S. from its traditional allies in Europe and Asia.
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Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In 2016 Trump promised to ‘shake the rust off America’s foreign policy.’ Four years later, it’s clearer what that looks like: a US that sits on the sidelines of world crises and collaborations alike.
A massive shift to mail-in voting will be hard for many of the state and local officials who run elections.
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To carry out an election by mail, hundreds of thousands of state and local offices and employees across the US must make sure that ballots are processed in a fair, consistent and timely manner.
Faith leaders pray with President Donald Trump during a rally for evangelical supporters in Miami in January 2020.
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A historian explains the impact of culture and American Hollywood heroes such as John Wayne who have helped fashion the ideal of a masculine Christianity.
People affected by the downturn in the economy caused by coronavirus at a food bank in Central Florida in April, 2020.
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In the middle of the pandemic, the Trump administration is pursuing policy and a court ruling that would take away health care from millions. Two scholars explain the details.
Trump prays at the Values Voter Summit, a conference for social conservatives, in December 2019.
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With several seats still in doubt, Michael Gunner looks likely to be returned as chief minister, while Newspoll has the Coalition pulling ahead in the Queensland race.
Biden accepts the Democratic nomination on Aug. 20, 2020.
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Two scholars react to Biden’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Protesters against passage of a bill to expand mail-in voting during a Nevada Republican Party demonstration, August 4, 2020, in Las Vegas.
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In lawsuits across the country, the GOP and Trump campaign are trying to stop or dramatically curtail mail-in voting. Courts have largely sided with them, threatening massive disenfranchisement.
A protestor argues with a counter-protestor in Los Angeles on May 1, 2020.
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Despite partisan affiliation, American voters tend to share views on common facts about the world. But recent research suggests that when it comes to COVID-19, voters live in alternative realities.
God creating night and day.
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Trump recently suggested that a vote for Biden would hurt God. Religion scholars explain what, in Christian theology, it would take to injure the creator.
Biden goes way back with a number of world leaders, among them Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney