US Election 2020
Congratulations to President Elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala D. Harris.
Congratulations to President Elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala D. Harris.
Regardless of what happens in the vote counting, President Donald Trump has said he is going to the Supreme Court. When he does, he will have to overcome a hurdle of his own making: his claim to have “already” won the election, made during his rambling speech at 2:30am. The justices — including the crucial […]
US President Donald Trump, perhaps unsurprisingly, has alleged fraud in the November 3 presidential election, without offering what anyone would consider real evidence, other than the fact that votes for his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, keep turning up in states where Trump initially led in the count. The president has already announced that he intends […]
The second US presidential debate now being over, the only step left in knowing the results in one of the most consequential elections in our lifetime will be on November 3. Fifty million Americans have already voted early. The last debate was thus a last chance for the candidates to make their cases to undecided […]
At certain moments in history – often after substantial social progress has discomfited certain segments of society – an individual appears on the political scene claiming to stand for something grand and new. Skilled in the arts of self-presentation and emotional manipulation, he (it is always a man) captures the hearts and minds of millions […]
For China, at least, US President Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. His calamitous response to the COVID-19 pandemic has made China, whose government mishandled the initial outbreak in January this year, look like an exemplar of effective governance. Moreover, Trump’s “America First” foreign policy has alienated traditional US allies, making it difficult […]
This month, China released its third quarter economic indicators, including a GDP growth rate of 4.9 percent. The figures confirmed that the country is on track for an economic recovery after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the whole of 2020, the IMF forecasts, China’s GDP will grow by nearly 2 percent—much lower than last […]
Americans go to the polls next Tuesday to cast their votes in the presidential election, a birthright first granted in 1776 only to White, male property owners, and in later decades to women, Blacks and Native Americans. Meanwhile, people around the world will be watching, knowing that what happens in America often always reverberates globally, […]
Both presidential candidates were on better behavior for the second debate than for the first, which meant each could speak in full sentences without being interrupted by the other’s insults. As different as the debates were, though, the upshot was the same. Most of the evidence we have suggests that President Donald Trump came into […]
Spare a thought for the 14 million American kids who have turned 18 years of age during the past four years and are now eligible to cast their first ever vote in a presidential election, having known only one US President as an adult in their lifetime – Donald J. Trump. How many of these […]