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A vice president is usually chosen to offset a presidential candidate’s weaknesses. For Trump, this means he could pick a person of colour or a woman.
What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those who think the 2020 election was stolen?
The parallels between Trump and Nixon are abundantly clear. Yet even Nixon acknowledged the fundamental importance of accountability in a democracy.
Trump has apparently been unable to secure the appeal bond he needs to avoid paying the civil fraud judgment against him.
There are potential threats to US democracy posed by the choices voters make in this presidential election. But the benefits of American democracy have for centuries been unequally available.
Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results. But the work of others, from lawmakers to judges to regular citizens, stopped him. There are cautionary lessons in that for the 2024 election.
An unpopular president. A war that’s dividing the country. An upcoming election. What year is it?
Given her strengths and Donald Trump’s vulnerabilities, why did Nikki Haley fail to seriously challenge Trump’s dominant position in the GOP primaries? Sexism is part of the answer.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite politicians is the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Would a country led again by Trump embrace similar antidemocratic politics?
The former president’s political obituary has been written many times over the past decade. Yet his support among Republicans has rarely dipped below 70%.
Experts explain the context behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots.
Nikki Haley claims Donald Trump is running as a quasi-incumbent and should be doing much better against her than he is. That’s wishful thinking, says a political scientist.
In a case that will make legal and political history, the US Supreme Court will consider whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for his alleged effort to undermine the 2020 election.
Organizers of the protest had set a goal of 11,000 uncommitted votes to show dissatisfaction with Biden’s support of Israel in the Israel-Hamas war.
In a general election, most people will vote for their party’s candidate. But in a primary, voters rely on media coverage to help them choose among candidates. And that gives the media influence.
Here’s what to understand about Trump’s world view and what to expect, should he be elected president again.
Donald Trump says he’s being politically persecuted, like Russian democracy martyr Alexei Navalny, who died while in a Russian prison on Feb. 16. A scholar says there’s no comparison between the men.
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Charleston
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Visiting Research Fellow in International Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
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Non-resident fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Tisch College Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor, Tufts University
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Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
