Term limits for presidents were only written into the Constitution after the second world war. And members of Congress can still serve as long as they wish.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
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An expert on Congress helps untangle the mess that is Kevin McCarthy’s life as speaker of the House right now.
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, meets with U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in San Diego in March 2023 as part of AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between three countries.
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Srdjan Vucetic, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
AUKUS faces political challenges right now, and the next year may bring even deeper problems. Big-picture geopolitical realities suggest AUKUS will survive.
The president’s keynote address in Largo, Maryland marks the start of a push to sell his economic policies to voters.
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Recent opinion polls show American are very gloomy on both the economy and Biden.
Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on September 26, 2020. He recently faced a trial for his role in the attack on the US Capitol.
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Former President Donald Trump’s mug shot is in line with the traditional mug shots that arrested people first took in the mid-1800s and early 1900s, a police photography expert explains.
America’s overnight summer star, country singer Oliver Anthony, performs in Moyock, N.C., on Aug. 19.
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Although its content is essentially libertarian, the No. 1 song of the summer in the U.S. resonates with both some Democratic supporters and those on the Trumpist right.
2024 Republican presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at CPAC-DC, an annual gathering of conservative donors and political activists in the Washington DC area.
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Republican rising star Vivek Ramaswamy had a bump in the polls after a recent television debate.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a news conference after former President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 indictment.
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Federal and state RICO charges, which target racketeering, have been applied to a wide range of crimes committed by politicians and business people over the past few decades.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces on Aug. 11, 2023, that he has appointed a special counsel to handle the investigations into Hunter Biden.
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Special counsels can help presidential administrations avoid the perception of bias, but they are not as independent as the independent counsels of the past.
Of the eight Republicans on stage at the party’s first presidential debate, six were current or former governors.
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A former executive director of the National Governors Association explains what it is about certain governors that makes them less suited for the presidency.
Donald Trump continues to have − and to exercise − his free speech rights, even while under court orders.
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Trump has not been silenced. The limits on his speech protect fundamental rights − including his right to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and the public’s right to a working justice system.
Republican candidates for president at a US television debate.
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Donald Trump’s decision not to take part in the first TV debate for Republicans who want to be the next presidents seems to have reaped rewards for him.
Donald Trump poses for his booking photo on August 24, 2023, in Atlanta.
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One by one, former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in the Georgia presidential election interference case turned themselves in for arrest at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
Eight GOP candidates for president after they entered the debate hall in Milwaukee on Aug. 23, 2023.
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Department of Justice prosecutors could have composed a technocratic document intelligible only to other criminal law insiders when indicting Donald Trump in the documents case. They did much more.
GOP candidates will likely debate whether the US should continue to pour support into Ukraine’s effort to defeat Russia.
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Jordan Tama, American University School of International Service
While a few Republican politicians have aligned with former President Donald Trump’s isolationist foreign policy position, most candidates continue to push for the traditional stance of engagement.
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