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Five more states will soon have their say in the Clinton-Sanders battle. But is it already over?
The 1968 presidential election saw belligerent, race-baiting populism in full flower. Sound familiar?
Trump’s campaign challenges the conventions of politics and liberal democracy. So maybe the time has come to question how journalists practice objectivity.
Do environmental regulations help or hurt the economy? Ask the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates and you’ll get starkly different views.
Hillary Clinton’s ‘slow and steady push’ is hardly inspiring. But it shows she is playing the long game, already positioning herself as the centrist candidate for the election in November.
Two weeks ago Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz were riding high. The New York primary changes all that with decisive victories for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The story of New York’s 1992 Democratic primary – when another Clinton beat another left wing candidate with the help of another Cuomo.
The Republican insurgent’s latest foray into geopolitics was even more dangerous than it sounded.
Class warfare is not just a bottom-up affair.
Americans tend to agree inequality is a problem, but Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas about what is causing it and how to solve it.
New research on first impressions offers hope that the presidential front-runners may still be able to win over voters who have unfavorable opinions of them.
Whatever his position on the Iraq War was in 2003, Donald Trump is ready to attack Hillary Clinton for hers – and from the left, too.
The Republican frontrunner’s anti-Mexican rants have shocked the US – but Mexicans have heard it all before.
The rise of women to very powerful positions has not, to date, opened the way for other women. So there is no reason to believe a Hillary Clinton presidency would change that.
Sanders won big in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, but that doesn’t mean the nomination is within his reach.
A partisan media landscape has made it almost impossible for journalists to avoid charges of bias when calling out a candidate’s dishonesty.
Donald Trump will probably not become US president, but whoever succeeds Barack Obama will have a tough time undoing the damage Trump has done.
A majority of U.S. citizen oppose Syrian refugee resettlement. We run the numbers to put the perceived risk in perspective.
It’s a searing response to the great American paradox – and the US climate of suspicion and fear.
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