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The former president has been inept in responding to Kamala Harris’s rapid elevation
The Democrat needs to reassure international allies, without alienating the US working class
JD Vance would not like to face the transportation secretary in a vice-presidential debate
The Democrats need to keep backing, refining and owning the long-term shift towards a post-neoliberal world
The addition of JD Vance to the ticket was Silicon Valley’s triumphal moment
There’s a growing fear over excessive regulation and overconcentration of corporate power
The idea that mass tourism is creating knock-on effects like price rises is causing tension in the countries most-visited
Stepping down would be the patriotic thing for Biden to do
Bipartisanship is not a good thing in itself. We should not mistake process for substance
Its lesson shouldn’t have been to outsource your entire industrial base
The Biden administration has passed massive climate legislation. Lots of voters haven’t heard.
The paper’s owner is losing his appetite for red ink
We would likely get a harder edged, more insular, xenophobic and paranoid version in the White House second time around
‘We are locked into a battle of ideas with Beijing — our democratic values versus their authoritarian mindset,’ says Nicholas Burns
The concept seems to have become bifurcated
If there are any Indian auguries for America’s November 5 election, they might even be negative
Does anyone now look to a political system that tolerates a convicted felon as a model?
It is not as if the likely incoming Labour government will be able to reverse the bulk of the damage wrought
If the Big Tech company is found to be breaking the law, it could change corporate behaviour in a profound way
The benefits will go far beyond American shores
We ought to be paying more attention to the former president’s plan to reimpose Schedule F
Netanyahu blames antisemitism for campus protests. But has he forgotten his own embrace of Trumpism?
His final pick will have to say they believe 2020 election was stolen, and refuse to admit that the former president could lose in November
I’m sceptical that artificial intelligence will benefit anyone aside from Big Tech in the short term
The former president nominated Jay Powell, and to him there are few things worse than having loyalty betrayed
