In 2008, Hillary Clinton withdrew from the presidential race to support Barack Obama. Now, facing a rampaging Donald Trump, she’s hoping Bernie Sanders will do the same.
Waving the Austrian flag: the leaders of the Freedom Party.
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Why are populist candidates all the rage this year in the race for the White House? Recent research from Harvard and BU links it to the market economy and a similar trend in Europe.
Clinton vs Trump: what could go wrong?
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Sanders’ latest win – this time in West Virginia – is a reminder that Clinton is far from a strong candidate. She will have to fight to win in the general election against Trump.
Two mathematicians explain why majority voting often fails to elect the candidate preferred by the majority and propose an alternative, ‘majority judgment.’
Donald Trump is now the de-facto Republican candidate after John Kasich and Ted Cruz ended their campaigns.
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If Donald Trump is tapping into a more fundamental disconnect from the Washington establishment, he might attract many voters who have previously abstained or even voted Democrat.
Trump and Cruz certainly think so. Clinton promises to maintain the “strongest military the world has ever known.” An OSU professor examines the issue through three different lens.
Trump or Cruz? Whom to choose?
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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.
Voting in Port Washington, NY.
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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.
Team Clinton: from 1992 to 2016.
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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.
Hillary Clinton is a flawed presidential candidate. But she’s still probably the best on offer.
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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.
Bernie Sanders is pumped in Wisconsin.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is one of President Obama’s biggest accomplishments of his second term. Can it survive the anti-trade tide in the race to replace him?
Presidential candidates are using voter anger to fuel more divisions and discord rather than to start a conversation about the collapse of collective bargaining.
A early chest, belonging to Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of The Bodleian Library at Oxford Unviersity.
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A President Trump or Sanders would be likely to pursue protectionist trade policies such as higher tariffs. History suggests such policies could lead to a trade war, with painful consequences.
Sanders supporters in Phoenix, Arizona on March 15, 2016.
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