What comes after Trump’s decisive victory?
A big agenda, replete with lessons from the first term
Charles Lipson
Charles Lipson is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he founded the programme on International Politics, Economics, and Security.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Friday
Biden scores another own goal over Trump’s ‘garbage’ supporters
Sometimes, the best move is to let bad stories die
Sunday
Contrasting the candidates’ closing arguments
For Harris, it’s ‘he’s dangerous.’ For Trump, it’s ‘MAGA’
Thursday
What follows Sinwar’s death in Israel’s war in Gaza and beyond
Nearly all Hamas’s senior leaders are dead. What comes next?
Thursday
CBS: from the Tiffany Network to the cheap discount bin
The network has abandoned journalist integrity for partisanship
Monday
Can Kamala Harris escape the ‘Hubert Humphrey problem?’
When the president is unpopular, their vice presidents rarely win the top office
Tuesday
Iran attacks Israel: what does it mean and what happens next?
Right now, the attack looks constrained
Sunday
Israel’s campaign to kill Nasrallah, Hezbollah and Hamas
What comes next in the Middle East
Thursday
What if the Electoral College vote is tied?
A constitutional primer on picking the new president
Monday
How to score the Trump-Harris debate
What the candidates and moderators need to do and need to avoid
Monday
Two successive 2024 campaigns in a very strange election year
Now that Trump faces Harris, not Biden, he has failed to pivot his attack
Monday
Kamala Harris and that new car smell
Can she define her candidacy for voters before Republicans do it for her?
Friday
How Trump and Kamala can have a good debate
Let’s hope they agree to more — and focus on their stark policy differences
Thursday
The logic of the J.D. Vance selection
Trump’s main goal is to build a MAGA coalition that dominates the party in 2028 and beyond
Joe Biden, naked emperor
Observers could finally see — and call out — what the Biden team and the mainstream press knew for months but refused to say
Monday
Washington Post imitates the Babylon Bee
Their follow-up a on the Clooney fundraiser tells the true story of what donors saw
The political impact of the Trump assassination attempt
How his response and the bureaucracy’s failure paved his path to November
Thursday
The Democrats caught between the dog and the hydrant
Given the vice president’s defects, why are leading Democrats and their media allies pushing so hard for Joe to leave?
Saturday
Joe Biden’s interview with George Stephanopoulos could have been worse
Much worse. Like it has been for the last week
