2020 US Elections

As Election Day Nears, Trump and Biden Strive to Flip Key States

As the U.S. election reaches its home stretch, President Trump and former Vice President Biden haveCadopteddivergent campaign strategies which reflect deeper, structural changes in the geography of…

Joseph Braude 30 October 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren: The Former Law Professor that Wants to Change the Rules of the Economy

Elizabeth Warren was born in 1949, in Oklahoma, US. Her father worked mainly as a maintenance man and her mother did catalog-order work. At age 16she became a state debate champion and…

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U.S. President Donald Trump walks in a corridor of the White House to greet visitors, while a portrait of Hillary Clinton hangs on the wall, March 7, 2017 in Washington, DC . (Getty)

How Americans Were Driven to Extremes

Every day brings more evidence of the United States’ profound political polarization. Partisan intransigence, vitriol, and divisiveness now contaminate most government institutions. What is…

Thomas Carothers and Andrew O'Donohue 04 October 2019

Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks about the bill to end the U.S. support for the war in Yemen on December 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty)

Democratic Presidential Hopefuls and the Middle East

As Britain’s involvement in the Middle East began to decline after the Second World War, the US’s role in the region started to gradually increase. Today, the Middle East has become a cornerstone of…

Ali El Shamy 06 September 2019

U.S. Elections Are Still Not Safe From Attack

Russia’s attack on American elections in 2016, described in Special CounselRobert Mueller’s recent report as “sweeping and systematic,” came as a shock to many. It shouldn’t have…

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