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1. Checks and Balance newsletter: Who is (or was) the smartest person in government?15:33[-/+]
Нет описания.

2. Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chasesЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
An unremarked cost of greater border security

3. Elon Musk is powersliding through the federal governmentЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
But to what end?

4. The cover-up is worse than the group chatЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
A wiser president would admit a lapse and be grateful for the chance to prevent a more devastating blunder

5. White House denials over the Signal snafu ring hollowСр, 26 мар[-/+]
The breach raises questions of security and legality

6. America’s Supreme Court tackles a thorny voting-rights caseВт, 25 мар[-/+]
Louisiana v Callais could affect control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterms

7. A shambolic leak reveals Team Trump’s contempt for alliesВт, 25 мар[-/+]
How a magazine editor was accidentally added to a top-secret chat group

8. MAGA is already rewiring American educationВс, 23 мар[-/+]
The Department of Education is being dismantled; universities are being brought to heel

9. Checks and Balance newsletter: Which past is MAGA promising to revive?Сб, 22 мар[-/+]
Нет описания.

10. Donald Trump is testing more than America’s constitutionЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
The country’s very idea of itself is under stress

11. What a Christian theatre town can teach Trump’s Kennedy CentreЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
Anti-woke entertainment has draws and drawbacks

12. The American and Russian right are aligningЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
MAGA men are warming to anti-liberal ideas emanating from Moscow

13. Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction betterЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
Methadone can help addicts. But many are loth to make it more easily available

14. Cambridge yimbiesЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
The home of Harvard and MIT embraces yimby-ism

15. Did Donald Trump wilfully defy a court order?Вт, 18 мар[-/+]
The administration’s rushed deportation of alleged gang members seems to have crossed a line

16. The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning statesВт, 18 мар[-/+]
How much were school-closure policies to blame?

17. America is facing a beef deficitВс, 16 мар[-/+]
Donald Trump’s tariff plans will make it worse, and burgers dearer

18. Checks and Balance newsletter: Elon Musk’s low opinion of the Democrats—and AmericaСб, 15 мар[-/+]
Tesla’s boss is learning that Americans vote with their pocketbooks, too

19. Donald Trump is setting new boundaries for political speechЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
You can probably guess who’s still free to say what they want

20. The education department is halved overnightЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
What does that mean for education in America

21. Jared Isaacman, the high-school dropout who will lead NASAЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
The entrepreneur is a foe of the “Old Space” establishment

22. A selection of emails received by employees of the CDCЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
What it’s like to be a public-health worker or scientist at the start of Trump 2

23. America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wallСр, 12 мар[-/+]
Even as markets reel, some firms want the president to get tough on enforcing duties

24. Young Americans are getting happierВт, 11 мар[-/+]
Depression and anxiety seem to have peaked a couple of years ago

25. How DOGE is driving America’s public-health guardians madВт, 11 мар[-/+]
Internal emails and interviews portray a workforce seized by fear and confusion

26. Checks and Balance newsletter: Depending on America is a vulnerabilityСб, 08 мар[-/+]
The more you trust America, the less you can trust it

27. Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the mediaЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Free-speech groups worry how far he will go

28. The women vying to make conservatism fashionable onlineЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Intellectual dominance is not enough for the MAGA movement. Aesthetic dominance must follow

29. DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancyЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Political loyalty appears to be more important than tech skills

30. Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGEЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Though by the time the courts are done, Elon may be too

31. Democrats are struggling to respond to TrumpЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
First, the party must work out what it stands for

32. Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peakСр, 05 мар[-/+]
His address to Congress showed that Republicans will follow their leader anywhere, and that Democrats don’t have one

33. Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New YorkВт, 04 мар[-/+]
Polls suggest the city still loves a rogue

34. Trump’s armed forces won’t look like Biden’sПн, 03 мар[-/+]
America is set to spend more—and differently

35. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s savvy dealmakerПт, 28 фев[-/+]
The novice diplomat embodies the president’s transactional worldview

36. America’s Gen Z has got religionЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
Because of them, a long decline in the number of Christians has levelled off

37. America has never had state media like it does todayЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are revolutionising presidential communication

38. Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years agoЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
But some of its authors think it has been misused by partisans

39. To make their numbers work, Republicans must slash health spendingЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
Some proposed cuts to Medicaid could mean 20m lose their health insurance

40. Edward Blum has new allies in his fight against affirmative actionЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
The campaigner has battled race-conscious policy for decades. Now his time has come

41. The spread of mariachi tells a very American storyВт, 25 фев[-/+]
Extreme commitment to extracurriculars meets cultural pride

42. Elon Musk’s outfit is running into opposition from Donald Trump’s appointeesПн, 24 фев[-/+]
The people the president has chosen to run departments are not wild about DOGE firing their underlings

43. Donald Trump sacks America’s top military brassСб, 22 фев[-/+]
The navy chief, the air force second-in-command and military lawyers have all been fired, too

44. Checks and Balance newsletter: The journalist’s dilemma of covering TrumpСб, 22 фев[-/+]
Нет описания.

45. Why so many children in America have ADHDЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
Not for the reasons espoused by Robert F. Kennedy junior

46. In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendantЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
Amid a measles outbreak they are lobbying for more “medical freedom”

47. Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural votersЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
The teardown of USAID threatens a programme that benefits farmers

48. DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalismЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
Elon Musk has joined a war of ideas under the guise of a budget fight

49. For Donald Trump, the resignations are the pointЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
The more government lawyers who quit over their own scruples, the better for him

50. Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?Вт, 18 фев[-/+]
America’s government has a big problem, but DOGE’s approach is unlikely to fix it

51. So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than realityВс, 16 фев[-/+]
A raid in New Jersey highlights the barriers Donald Trump faces

52. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s pick-and-choose federalismСб, 15 фев[-/+]
Not so long ago Republicans were advocates of giving states more power

53. Elon Musk has been pushed out of the TreasuryЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
But court filings reveal quite how deep DOGE got

54. How Bob Dylan broke freeЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
The biopic “A Complete Unknown” tells only part of the story

55. What happened next at USAIDЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
A textbook case of how not to cut wasteful government spending

56. Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are toldЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
But local governments are taking immigration into their own hands

57. Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quoЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
The president likes to kneecap prosecutions of his friends

58. Donald Trump’s first 100 daysЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
We are keeping tabs on his cabinet picks, promises and popularity

59. Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyardВт, 11 фев[-/+]
What are 3,200 military aircraft doing in the Arizona desert?

60. Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threatПн, 10 фев[-/+]
Expensive omelettes are the least of it

61. What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?Вс, 09 фев[-/+]
Nobody is sure, many are worried

62. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s scheming is costing AmericaСб, 08 фев[-/+]
He is rapidly spending down American capital accumulated by previous administrations

63. Donald Trump is turning payback into policyЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
And setting new, dangerous precedents for the American presidency

64. New York City commits to involuntary commitmentЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Compulsory treatment of the severely mentally ill was once taboo. No longer

65. Florida comes to Washington, DCЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Using the Sunshine State’s politics as a guide to the Trump administration

66. The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensionsСр, 05 фев[-/+]
When a city burns, how does recovery even begin?

67. RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed SenateСр, 05 фев[-/+]
But Congress will bargain harder on taxes and spending

68. Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did TwitterВт, 04 фев[-/+]
Some of his operatives are barely out of their teens

69. Checks and Balance newsletter: What 1970s television reveals about AmericaСб, 01 фев[-/+]
Нет описания.

70. Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shieldЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
He wants a swarm of missile-toting satellites to take out incoming threats

71. Donald Trump’s defining decadeЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
Will America’s president overcome the 1970s, or just refight its battles?

72. An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020Чт, 30 янв[-/+]
What if it wasn’t about policing?

73. America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at riskЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
Donald Trump sought disruption. He hurt America first.

74. Donald Trump goes to war with his employeesЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
The president wants to shrink and remake the civil service

75. Kash Patel is a crackpotСр, 29 янв[-/+]
Is he also a menace?

76. The White House has been fluid on gender for a decadeПн, 27 янв[-/+]
Trump’s order “restoring biological truth” will not be the last word

77. A controversial idea to hand even more power to the presidentВс, 26 янв[-/+]
Impoundment is about to come a step closer

78. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump revives McKinley’s imperial legacyСб, 25 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

79. Tom Homan, unleashedПт, 24 янв[-/+]
America’s new border czar spent decades waiting for a president like Donald Trump

80. To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitutionЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
A change would also create huge practical problems

81. Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdownЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
His executive orders range from benign to belligerent

82. An unfinished election may shape a swing state’s futureЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
A Supreme Court race ended very close. Then the lawyers arrived.

83. Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crimeЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
His dark website, the Silk Road, was to crime what Napster was to music

84. Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon powerЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both made indefensible decisions

85. Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6thЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice

86. Following Trump’s pardons, the Proud Boys are back in the gameСр, 22 янв[-/+]
Enrique Tarrio tells The Economist he is still figuring out what is next for the group

87. America really could enter a golden ageСр, 22 янв[-/+]
Donald Trump would need to build on its strengths, and subdue his own weaknesses

88. To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitutionСр, 22 янв[-/+]
It would also create huge practical problems

89. The new American imperialismВт, 21 янв[-/+]
Donald Trump is the first president in more than 100 years to call for new American territory—including Mars

90. The beginning of the end of the Trump eraВс, 19 янв[-/+]
The new president is more confident, and radical, than ever—and also more accepted

91. Pam Bondi seems like a relatively safe pair of handsСб, 18 янв[-/+]
But is America’s next attorney-general an independent operator?

92. Checks and Balance newsletter: Joe Biden’s farewell shot at the oligarchyСб, 18 янв[-/+]
The outgoing president warns of a new “tech-industrial complex”

93. A protest against America’s TikTok ban is mired in contradictionСб, 18 янв[-/+]
Another Chinese app is not the alternative some young Americans think it is

94. Joe Biden wound up serving Donald TrumpЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
In some ways, his administration will look less like an interregnum than like MAGA-lite

95. How bad will the smoke be for Angelenos’ health?Чт, 16 янв[-/+]
Expect more sickness and disrupted schooling

96. Should you have to prove your age before watching porn?Чт, 16 янв[-/+]
America’s Supreme Court weighs a Texan law aimed at protecting kids

97. Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Penn and the hunt for an American hostageСр, 15 янв[-/+]
A controversial trip to Syria in 2017 produced a possible sighting of Austin Tice, an imprisoned journalist

98. How flush Americans feel depends on their views of Donald TrumpВт, 14 янв[-/+]
Republicans expect a Trumponomics boom, Democrats dread a bust

99. How will calamity change Los Angeles?Пн, 13 янв[-/+]
Short-sighted policies amplified the destruction. Will LA–and California–learn from their mistakes?

100. How hard is it to run the Pentagon?Вс, 12 янв[-/+]
A look at the responsibilities Donald Trump is giving to Pete Hegseth, a former platoon leader

101. Checks and Balance: Fires, Greenland and the systematic organisation of hatredsСб, 11 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

102. Time could be running out for TikTokСб, 11 янв[-/+]
After a Supreme Court hearing, the app could be banned soon—unless it finds a new owner

103. When treating snakebites, American hospitals turn to zoosЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
The zookeeper will see you now

104. Most Americans think moderate drinking is fineЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
They are unaware of the cancer risk

105. Mike Johnson has his old job back, for nowЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
But the GOP has the tightest House majority in nearly a century

106. America’s bet on industrial policy starts to pay off for semiconductorsЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
Trump will not reverse the chip subsidies, but will he reinforce them?

107. Los Angeles against the flamesСр, 08 янв[-/+]
Always vulnerable, the city is increasingly susceptible to fire

108. The US Army needs less good, cheaper drones to competeВс, 05 янв[-/+]
It seems obvious. So what is stopping it from happening?

109. Trump has faced down Republican dissidents in CongressВс, 05 янв[-/+]
After some drama he gets his man for speaker of the House. That was the easy part

110. Checks and Balance: Can the tech elite and MAGA come together?Сб, 04 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

111. Russ Vought: Donald Trump’s holy warriorПт, 03 янв[-/+]
The Christian nationalist and budget wonk who wants to crush the “deep state”

112. Jimmy Carter reshaped his home townЧт, 02 янв[-/+]
What the 39th president means to Plains, Georgia

113. The Bourbon Street attack was part of a new patternЧт, 02 янв[-/+]
Why some experts fear a resurrection of Islamic State

114. Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban caseСр, 01 янв[-/+]
America’s Supreme Court is due to weigh the platform’s fate on January 10th

115. Homelessness rises to a record level in AmericaВт, 31 дек 2024[-/+]
A surge in migration and disasters pushed many people over the edge

116. RFK junior is half right about American health careВт, 31 дек 2024[-/+]
What would have to happen for the anti-vaxxer-in-chief to do more good than harm

117. What should companies do to keep bosses safe?Пт, 27 дек 2024[-/+]
After the murder of Brian Thompson, C-Suites are rethinking security

118. Matt Gaetz v the ethics committeeПн, 23 дек 2024[-/+]
The ex-congressman’s alleged behaviour is grotesque. His persistence as a national figure is troubling

119. Overall, American states are becoming more democraticПн, 23 дек 2024[-/+]
But there are some notable outliers

120. After a chaotic scramble, Congress strikes a budget dealПт, 20 дек 2024[-/+]
The brinkmanship is a sign that governing will be harder than Donald Trump might assume

121. How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workersЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
A pro-labour Democrat’s career traces the party’s erratic path

122. Donald Trump’s DEI assessmentЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
The Economist has been handed a confidential memo by a consultancy with way too much time on its hands

123. The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exportsЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
It will be reversed eventually, but not before the courts have had their say

124. Is the opioid epidemic finally burning out?Вс, 15 дек 2024[-/+]
Overdose deaths are falling steadily

125. Checks and Balance newsletter: America’s health-care paradoxСб, 14 дек 2024[-/+]
Trump edition

126. Tulsi Gabbard delights in provocationПт, 13 дек 2024[-/+]
The Democratic apostate and apologist for Vladimir Putin may soon run America’s spy agencies

127. Trump for DummiesЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
A ten-step guide

128. The Young Thug trial could be Fani Willis’s last big actЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
She may herself face indictment by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice

129. Luigi Mangione’s manifesto reveals his hatred of insurance companiesЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
The man accused of killing Brian Thompson gets American health care wrong

130. Donald Trump threatened to smackdown the education departmentСр, 11 дек 2024[-/+]
But his pick for education secretary is relatively tame

131. An Ivy League graduate is charged over Brian Thompson’s murderВт, 10 дек 2024[-/+]
He appears to be an unusual sort of radical

132. Checks and Balance newsletter: The post-post-Watergate eraСб, 07 дек 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

133. America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being suedПт, 06 дек 2024[-/+]
Johanna Olson-Kennedy leads the Centre for Transyouth at LA’s Children’s Hospital. One of her patients thinks she has been negligent

134. Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s wizard, wants to reform the FBIЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
But his list of political enemies would be a scary place to start

135. Dinesh D’Souza admits his documentary was fictionЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
An influential political documentary was based on falsehood

136. The US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a medical ban affecting trans youthЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
At oral arguments, the justices divided on ideological lines

137. The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foodsЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
A rule concocted in the 1950s for vinegar and spices has had unintended effects

138. A health-care CEO is murdered in ManhattanЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
A gunman killed Brian Thompson, boss of UnitedHealthcare, a leading insurer

139. Would you put Pete Hegseth second in America’s chain of command?Ср, 04 дек 2024[-/+]
A steady stream of scandal may capsize another of Donald Trump’s nominees

140. A big transgender-rights case heads to America’s Supreme CourtПн, 02 дек 2024[-/+]
The justices take on paediatric gender medicine

141. Donald Trump may find it harder to dominate America’s conversationСб, 30 ноя 2024[-/+]
A more fragmented media is tougher to manage

142. An FBI sting operation catches Jackson’s mayor taking big bribesЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
What the sensational undoing of the black leader means for Mississippi’s failing capital

143. America’s rural-urban divide nurtures wannabe state-splittersЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
What’s behind a new wave of secessionism

144. Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?Ср, 27 ноя 2024[-/+]
Yes, but other factors could hold him back

145. As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump’s allies hint at retributionСр, 27 ноя 2024[-/+]
The president-elect hopes to hand the Justice Department to loyalists

146. Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump’s returnПн, 25 ноя 2024[-/+]
But Mr Trump will be more prepared, too

147. Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooksВс, 24 ноя 2024[-/+]
The president-elect’s intelligence picks suggest a radical agenda

148. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump is embracing a shift in Republican prioritiesСб, 23 ноя 2024[-/+]
Will he follow through on his policy commitments?

149. Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as America’s attorney-generalПт, 22 ноя 2024[-/+]
Will the Senate be brave enough to block Donald Trump’s other outlandish nominees?

150. How Donald Trump could win the futureЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
The Democrats’ appeal to Silicon Valley is eroding

151. Democrats are still processing their defeatЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
Three factions are competing to explain the party to itself

152. Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?Чт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
He has the power to do so, but it would be another norm-smashing act

153. Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. MaybeЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
NYC is in a race against the incoming Republican trifecta

154. How gaga is MAHA?Ср, 20 ноя 2024[-/+]
RFK junior, Dr Oz and co. have the potential to do harm, but also some good

155. Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandalВт, 19 ноя 2024[-/+]
A county of 10m people conducts a civilised revolution

156. What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?Пн, 18 ноя 2024[-/+]
Highly skilled workers are already preparing for the worst

157. Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s pick for commerce secretaryСб, 16 ноя 2024[-/+]
The man steering the president-elect’s transition will also join his cabinet

158. Checks and Balance newsletter: Readers’ hopes and fears for a Trump presidencyСб, 16 ноя 2024[-/+]
Our columnist considers views from Trump and Harris supporters alike

159. What would Robert F. Kennedy junior mean for American health?Пт, 15 ноя 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump’s nomination for health secretary is sceptical about vaccines and mainstream medicine

160. The promise Donald Trump is sure to keepЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
He wants more freedom to fire civil servants, but he should weigh the long-term consequences

161. The demographic detail of Donald Trump’s victoryЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Immigrant voters may have won America’s presidential election for the nativist candidate

162. Senate Republicans flex their independenceЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Trump doesn’t weigh in on a leadership contest, but real conflicts will soon come

163. Climate change and the next administrationЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
There are obstacles to Donald Trump’s attempts to reverse progress

164. Republicans finally win the coveted trifectaЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Yet the party’s grip on power could be less reliable than it appears

165. The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the PentagonЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, takes aim at “woke shit”

166. What Trump’s picks suggest about how his presidency will goСр, 13 ноя 2024[-/+]
Loyalty, competence and an appetite for disruption are among the traits he is filtering for

167. Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from ChinaСр, 13 ноя 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump’s national security adviser draws bracing lessons from his army days

168. How to get hired by Donald TrumpВт, 12 ноя 2024[-/+]
Marco Rubio may be the next secretary of state

169. Dana White, martial-arts magnate and Trump cheerleaderСб, 09 ноя 2024[-/+]
A strongman persona plays well with the president-elect

170. Did sexism propel Donald Trump to power?Сб, 09 ноя 2024[-/+]
The perils of drawing conclusions from a sample of only two

171. What a second Trump presidency will bringЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
If Donald Trump is set to shake up the old world order, what will take its place?

172. Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump againЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
A small but stubborn error affected polls across the board

173. Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justiceЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
The president-elect can quash federal charges against him and delay sentencing for felony convictions

174. Democrats suffer in statehouse races, tooЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
And division is more entrenched

175. What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?Чт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Supposedly, one to Make America Healthy Again

176. What a Republican trifecta will mean for governingЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump’s agenda will be shaped by intra-coalition bargaining

177. Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policyЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Pro-abortion campaigns have a mixed night, but Americans are aligned on voting reform and criminal justice

178. Democrats need to understand: Americans think they’re worseЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Blaming America for Donald Trump’s success only guarantees more of it

179. Donald Trump wins big and fastСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
Republicans also gain control of the Senate

180. Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White HouseСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
Democrats can no longer rely on the Hispanic vote

181. The Republicans gain control of the SenateСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
Expect big effects on policy and power in Washington next year

182. Donald Trump claims victoryСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
He has taken Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina

183. Florida is the first state to reject an abortion-rights measureСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
Even though a majority voted for it

184. Three reasons why Donald Trump might outperform the pollsВт, 05 ноя 2024[-/+]
And three counter-arguments in Kamala Harris’s favour

185. Kamala Harris moves ahead—just—in our final election forecastВт, 05 ноя 2024[-/+]
Despite some rosy polls for Ms Harris, either candidate may yet win decisively

186. Financial markets are betting on a Trump victoryВт, 05 ноя 2024[-/+]
Harris’s odds have perked up but she is still the underdog

187. The risk of election violence in America is realВт, 05 ноя 2024[-/+]
But talk of civil war is overblown nonsense

188. US House of Representatives elections: live resultsПн, 04 ноя 2024[-/+]
Updating results and analysis of the race for the chamber

189. US Senate elections: live resultsПн, 04 ноя 2024[-/+]
Updating results and analysis of the race for the chamber

190. Live results of the US presidential electionПн, 04 ноя 2024[-/+]
Updating results and analysis of the race for the White House

191. Why half of America will vote for Donald TrumpВс, 03 ноя 2024[-/+]
Let us count the ways

192. A much-watched poll from Iowa points to a Harris landslideВс, 03 ноя 2024[-/+]
It is probably a fluke

193. How to win NevadaСб, 02 ноя 2024[-/+]
There is a formula to winning the Silver State. Can Democrats crack it again?

194. Checks and Balance newsletter: Michelle Obama spotlights reproductive rights and women’s role in AmericaСб, 02 ноя 2024[-/+]
The contrast with Donald Trump’s macho campaign could not be more stark

195. Dan Osborn shows some Democratic ideas can outperform the partyСб, 02 ноя 2024[-/+]
A white, working-class independent, he threatens the Republican dominance of Nebraska’s politics

196. Why the Trump campaign is spending heavily on ads on trans issuesСб, 02 ноя 2024[-/+]
Most voters agree with some of his views

197. What happens in the days after America’s electionПт, 01 ноя 2024[-/+]
If the vote is contested, the battle will play out initially at the county level

198. Election lawsuits are flooding America’s courtsЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump is mostly losing them—but his strategy invites havoc

199. Why Republicans have failed to scrap the Department of EducationЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
And why they keep promising to do so

200. This campaign is also demonstrating America’s democratic vitalityЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
Let’s hope it’s not, in retrospect, the high point

201. The fight to win the most unruly institution in WashingtonЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
Swing voters in House districts do not look like swing voters in the presidential election

202. What to watch for on election night, and beyondЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
The first clues that could point to America’s next president

203. Will Donald Trump’s bros turn out?Ср, 30 окт 2024[-/+]
A strategy of courting occasional voters is risky because they are occasional voters

204. What are the odds of an upset in Texas or Florida?Ср, 30 окт 2024[-/+]
Beating unpopular senators in Trump country may be Democrats’ only shot at holding the Senate

205. Why Kamala Harris’s chances of victory just jumpedСр, 30 окт 2024[-/+]
Our forecast now puts her level with Donald Trump

206. Could a mechanic in Nebraska determine control of the Senate?Ср, 30 окт 2024[-/+]
Dan Osborn is challenging Republicans for the state’s working-class vote

207. How wrong could America’s pollsters be?Вт, 29 окт 2024[-/+]
Gamblers are a lot more confident that Donald Trump will win

208. War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the DemocratsПн, 28 окт 2024[-/+]
In Michigan, where Kamala Harris leads by less than a percentage point, it could be the difference

209. Donald Trump returns to New York for a bombastic closing pitchПн, 28 окт 2024[-/+]
And finds adulation in his hometown

210. Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picksПн, 28 окт 2024[-/+]
Meet the leading contenders to replace Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

211. The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked againВс, 27 окт 2024[-/+]
Science that fits the zeitgeist sometimes does not fit the data

212. Susie Wiles, the unassuming operative powering Donald Trump’s campaignСб, 26 окт 2024[-/+]
A low-key manager, she could land a high-flying job

213. Checks and Balance: The 50-year planСб, 26 окт 2024[-/+]
Also: How to read America’s early-voting numbers

214. Gay voters are smitten with Kamala HarrisЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Republicans are uninterested in, or hostile to, a growing voter bloc

215. Kamala Harris’s closing argumentЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Her vision of the future is also a nostalgic one. Do enough Americans still believe in it?

216. Donald Trump’s terrifying closing messageЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
There is a pattern to the end of his campaigns

217. Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?Чт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Election officials in storm-ravaged counties must cope with damaged voting sites and Donald Trump’s calumnies

218. How to read America’s early-voting numbersЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Turnout is off to a roaring start but Republicans have made gains with initial ballot returns

219. The Americans who think Trump is anointed by GodВт, 22 окт 2024[-/+]
Talk of spiritual warfare is now common among his supporters

220. Why Donald Trump has moved ahead in our election forecastПн, 21 окт 2024[-/+]
With two weeks to go, the Republican candidate now has a slight lead

221. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump and Harris’s duel over EVsСб, 19 окт 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

222. A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s electionsСб, 19 окт 2024[-/+]
America’s biggest swing county ramps up security before the vote

223. Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everythingЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
It may well cost him his political career

224. One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in commonЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
They both want to crush Tesla’s competition

225. Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully closeЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
America’s dairyland is giving Democrats some heartburn

226. Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in GeorgiaЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
Kamala Harris’s campaign has good reason to feel jittery

227. Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in PennsylvaniaЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
Where mail-in ballots could matter most

228. Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economyЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
Why voters are down on America’s remarkable economy

229. Why Larry Hogan’s long-odds bid for a Senate seat mattersВт, 15 окт 2024[-/+]
He offers conservatives a pragmatic path beyond Trumpism

230. Polarisation by education is remaking American politicsВс, 13 окт 2024[-/+]
The battle for Pennsylvania is a test case for new coalitions of Democrats and Republicans

231. Checks and Balance newsletter: Partisan positions have changed drastically over the past 50 yearsСб, 12 окт 2024[-/+]
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump converge as much as they differ

232. Hurricane Milton inundates FloridaЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Three factors laid the ground for its destructiveness

233. Shirley Chisholm is still winningЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
The first black woman to run for president taught a lesson in making political change

234. US election forecast: who will control the House of Representatives?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Our prediction model assesses each party’s chance of winning the chamber

235. US election forecast: who will win control of the Senate?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Our prediction model assesses each party’s chances of winning the chamber

236. The next American president will be a China hawkЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump may seek to decouple America’s economy, while Kamala Harris favours more targeted pressure

237. Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Kamala Harris is likely to maintain Joe Biden’s awkward policy, while Donald Trump’s belligerent words mask a record of caution

238. Both candidates pledge to fortify America. How big will they go?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Hawks in Congress want to raise America’s defence budget dramatically, but the next president will decide

239. On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degreesЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Green subsidies will probably survive Mr Trump’s re-election, and Big Oil will probably do just fine under Ms Harris

240. The mysteries of Melania: Mrs Trump’s memoirСр, 09 окт 2024[-/+]
Lessons from America’s once and possibly future First Lady

241. America’s presidential election marks a fork in the road for UkraineСр, 09 окт 2024[-/+]
If Republicans take power, Kyiv will feel a chill: the latest of our policy briefs

242. Could an “October surprise” upset America’s election?Вт, 08 окт 2024[-/+]
What last-minute developments might portend for the race

243. Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America’s immigration systemВт, 08 окт 2024[-/+]
The divide between the two candidates on migration is stark, but it has narrowed

244. The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine howПн, 07 окт 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump promises cuts galore, while Kamala Harris would target the middle-class

245. The Supreme Court begins another contentious termВс, 06 окт 2024[-/+]
Guns, vapes, online porn and health care for transgender youth dot the docket

246. What America’s presidential election means for world tradeВс, 06 окт 2024[-/+]
The first in a series of eight concise briefs on the consequences of the 2024 election

247. Checks and Balance newsletter: gender politics in the electionСб, 05 окт 2024[-/+]
Both parties are telling very different stories about gender

248. Hurricane Helene was America’s deadliest storm in nearly two decadesЧт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
It wiped out North Carolina’s mountain towns

249. Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 electionЧт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
How the campaigns are exploiting and reshaping the battle of the sexes

250. Many Americans can decide their own policies. What will they choose?Чт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
Three issues will dominate state ballot measures in November

251. A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on tradeСр, 02 окт 2024[-/+]
East coast longshoremen are already among America’s best-paid manual workers

252. The vice-presidential debate was surprisingly cordialСр, 02 окт 2024[-/+]
Its high-minded tone worked to J.D. Vance’s advantage

253. Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticketВт, 01 окт 2024[-/+]
How much difference does that make?

254. Harris’s and Trump’s economic plans both promise utopiaПн, 30 сен 2024[-/+]
High spending, low taxes—and don’t worry about the deficit

255. The US Army’s chief of staff has ideas on the force of the futureВс, 29 сен 2024[-/+]
But can he scale up his clever experiments?

256. Checks and Balance newsletter: J.D. Vance and the politics of storytellingСб, 28 сен 2024[-/+]
Donald Trump’s running mate is disciplined in telling stories that serve his interests

257. The death penalty is disappearing in AmericaПт, 27 сен 2024[-/+]
Juries are less willing to impose capital punishment

258. What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald TrumpЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
The vice-presidential candidate is devising his own tactics for bending the truth

259. America’s growing row over policies for transgender prisonersЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Some women’s groups argue that transferring them puts female inmates at risk

260. Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?Чт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
The Democratic nominee is raising many millions more than her opponent

261. Kamalamania and the drive for abortion rights are a potent mixЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Referendums in ten states will determine the future of abortion access—and may tilt the presidential election

262. Eric Adams, New York’s mayor, is indicted on bribery chargesЧт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
The corruption allegations are a blemish on the Big Apple

263. Recent special elections bode well for DemocratsСр, 25 сен 2024[-/+]
They can help in predicting general elections

264. A threatened ports strike is already having an impact in AmericaВт, 24 сен 2024[-/+]
A stoppage could shut 36 ports from Texas to Maine

265. Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North CarolinaСб, 21 сен 2024[-/+]
Who will go down with the would-be Republican governor?

266. How the right is taking culture war to culture itselfЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
A new “mockumentary” satirises anti-racist activism

267. What is the effect of the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ban?Чт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
Making sense of the drip-drip of admissions data from American universities

268. Pennsylvania, the crucial battleground in America’s electionЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
Buckets of money, vicious advertising and consultants galore have left the race for the state a virtual tie

269. Eric Adams’s friends keep having their phones taken awayСр, 18 сен 2024[-/+]
It can be hard to keep track of all the people around New York’s mayor who are under investigation

270. Kamala Harris’s post-debate bounce is now visible in the pollsСр, 18 сен 2024[-/+]
But it comes with two big caveats

271. Who is Ryan Routh, Donald Trump’s would-be assassin?Вт, 17 сен 2024[-/+]
His 291-page screed on Ukraine’s “unwinnable war” offers some clues

272. Another attempt to kill Trump raises fears of political violenceПн, 16 сен 2024[-/+]
Republicans and Democrats must again try to avoid politicising a failed assassination

273. The never-Trump movement has leaders. What about followers?Сб, 14 сен 2024[-/+]
For some dissident Republicans, backing Kamala Harris seems a step too far

274. Checks and Balance newsletter: Why can’t politicians just admit when they’re wrong?Сб, 14 сен 2024[-/+]
Recalling the case of the Central Park Five

275. Ginni Thomas, battle-hardened conservative and bugaboo of DemocratsПт, 13 сен 2024[-/+]
Clarence Thomas’s wife is back in the news for supporting a group opposed to stricter ethics rules for the Supreme Court

276. America’s college heads revise rules for handling campus protestsЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
University leaders have learnt some lessons, but face a tough test this autumn

277. Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmerЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
Can Jon Tester win again in Montana?

278. The systemic bias Kamala Harris must overcome in order to winСр, 11 сен 2024[-/+]
The electoral college, not the popular vote, decides who becomes president

279. Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depthСр, 11 сен 2024[-/+]
The presidential debate was a success for the vice-president

280. Astrologers are predicting the result of America’s electionПн, 09 сен 2024[-/+]
Spreading their forecasts through social media can be lucrative—and divisive

281. How Boston became the safest big city in AmericaВс, 08 сен 2024[-/+]
Murder is declining across the country, but Boston has led the way

282. Checks and Balance newsletter: The enduring game of political ads in AmericaСб, 07 сен 2024[-/+]
Lessons from Pennsylvania

283. Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald TrumpЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
She’s better at it

284. Where is Kamala Harris’s convention bounce?Чт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
And what its absence means for election forecasting

285. America’s endless summers are good for mosquitoes, tooЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
Outbreaks of EEE and West Nile virus have health officials on the alert

286. The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliverЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
Democrats reliably win statewide in local races, but fail in presidential votes. Will this time be different?

287. The Trump campaign fires a barrage of negative advertisementsСр, 04 сен 2024[-/+]
It could well work

288. The Onion’s cutting edge: paperПн, 02 сен 2024[-/+]
A new era dawns for America’s self-declared finest news source

289. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump’s mass-deportation fantasyСб, 31 авг 2024[-/+]
How many people could Donald Trump actually deport?

290. Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing themСб, 31 авг 2024[-/+]
New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes

291. Donald Trump’s dream of mass deportations is a fantasyЧт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
Legal, logistical and political hurdles abound. But even unsuccessful attempts could breed chaos

292. What Texas’s oldest motel reveals about the rural SouthЧт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
From joyrides and drugs to economic dynamism

293. The fate of America’s for-profit colleges hinges on the electionЧт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would claim to be fair—one by cracking down, the other by loosening the reins

294. To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinaryСр, 28 авг 2024[-/+]
They must pull off the biggest reversal of electoral disadvantage since 1978

295. Why Texas Republicans are souring on cryptoВт, 27 авг 2024[-/+]
Playing the state’s energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin

296. Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal ReserveСб, 24 авг 2024[-/+]
Neither market turbulence nor Donald Trump’s stormy bombast can ruffle the Fed’s calm pilot

297. Checks and Balance newsletter: The alternate-reality Democratic National ConventionСб, 24 авг 2024[-/+]
What if Joe Biden were still the nominee?

298. Kamala Harris completes her reinventionПт, 23 авг 2024[-/+]
As the Democrats’ convention ends, the general election begins in earnest

299. NASA insists that two astronauts are not “stranded” in spaceЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
The Starliner mishap is another embarrassment for Boeing

300. Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?Чт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
The scarcity of protests is striking


 
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