President Trump is using religious rhetoric against his Democratic opponents. A historian of religion cites similar attacks over a century ago.
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Think American democracy is ending? You’re not alone, writes a historian. American leaders have often yielded to despair – as far back as the founding of the republic.
Though air travel has boosted presidential campaigns for decades, the 2020 pandemic has underlined the importance of aircraft as the quickest and safest way to campaign.
Some presidents have lied for honorable reasons, while for others the lies have been simply self-serving.
It’s easy to edit video of public figures to make them appear asleep, confused, drunk or cognitively impaired when they are not. The technique is being used to undermine Joe Biden’s campaign.
Debating whether climate change or forest management has caused the devastating wildfires in California, Washington and Oregon is a false choice.
‘Beta testing’ of bold ideas is rare in foreign affairs, but the UAE and Bahrain have provided just such a test case for the Saudis in their own push to normalise relations with Israel.
Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party will try to undermine union leaders by playing to the economic nationalist fears some have been stoking for years.
Extremists are playing on people’s health fears to normalise their views.
The polls are predicting a comfortable win for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. But if this election sees the same polling errors as in 2016, Trump’s chances of re-election are higher than we think.
How some evangelicals use spiritual warfare to interpret the presidency of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump’s attack on racial injustice is an attempt to replace historical consciousness with historical amnesia. It’s a racialized politics of organized forgetting.
Americans are mad – fist-fighting, protesting mad. And that’s just how politicians want voters in election season. But the popular anger stoked by candidates doesn’t just dissipate after the campaign.
Transparency should be the default position of governments – unless fear itself is the greatest risk.
Whether you like it or not, the globalised world will survive Donald Trump and the pandemic.
The technical qualifications for presidential candidates are the same, but how people seek the nation’s highest office has shifted over the centuries.
President Trump’s law-and-order campaign rhetoric has been compared to Richard Nixon’s and George Wallace’s similar themes in 1968. But such appeals go much further back, to the US in the early 1800s.
More than 170 countries have signed up to the Global Access (COVAX) initiative, but vaccine hoarding has already begun by many wealthy countries — leaving poorer nations potentially in the lurch.
Political satire is not dead – but it’s had to adapt since Donald Trump’s election.
Left-wing terrorism had its heyday in the 1960s-80s, and though some threats remain today, groups like Antifa are known more for low-level violence, not significant terrorist actions.
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