Trump and the movement behind him is both new and old. Times are unprecedented but also, to historians of America, frighteningly familiar. Nick Bryant’s book excavates that history.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
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Government prosecutors, ruled the Supreme Court, stretched the meaning of a law that’s been used to prosecute those alleged to have participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.
Joe Biden’s answers were stumbling and hesitant in places.
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Polling hasn’t improved for the UK’s Conservatives throughout the campaign. meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron appears to be heading for electoral disaster.
Soon to share a stage for the first time since 2020: Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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Andrew Reeves, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Most efforts to project how well a candidate will do in an election are based largely on factors over which presidents have little to no control.
The rise of populist leaders and movements is sometimes the partial result of people’s economic insecurities and worries about the future.
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Former rival Nikki Haley would boost Trump’s campaign with her internationalist credentials and appeal to anti-Trump voters, independents and perhaps some Democrats.
Yet to be seen: a new style of presidential debate.
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Featuring several unique rules, including no live audience and mics that cut off when it’s not a speaker’s turn, the debate might help shape the 2024 presidential race.
U.S. Supreme Court justices normally take their time in issuing decisions.
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Critics are decrying the long time the Supreme Court has taken to rule in a crucial Trump case, charging that it’s politically motivated to help Trump. A scholar of the court says they’re wrong.
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