Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Honestly, I didn’t think Republicans were going to try replaying Ronald Reagan’s famous line, since so much of the G.O.P.’s 2024 strategy depends on a sort of collective amnesia about the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Is it really a good idea to […]
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Putin’s Orchestrated Election Leaves Russians With No Other Choices
The Kremlin stage-managed Russia’s presidential vote over the weekend to send a singular message at home and abroad: that President Vladimir V. Putin’s support is overwhelming and unshakable, despite or even because of his war against Ukraine. From the moment the preliminary results first flashed across state television late Sunday, the authorities left no room […]
Read MoreWill Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?
Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president. Ms. Sheinbaum, who is of Jewish descent, holds a staggering 30 percentage point lead over Xóchitl Gálvez, a tech entrepreneur of Indigenous descent. […]
Read MoreIn Occupied Ukraine, Casting a Vote (for Putin) as Armed Soldiers Watch
A new sign went up a few miles from the front line recently on the main billboard of an occupied town in Ukraine’s Luhansk region. “Vote for our president. Together we’re strong,” read the sign in the white, blue and red colors of the Russian flag, according to Anastasiia, a resident. The message was clear […]
Read MoreShare of Democratic Registrations Is Declining, but What Does It Mean?
Newly registered voters, who are disproportionately young and nonwhite, have tended to lean Democratic. That’s been less and less true during the Biden era. A majority of states ask people to select a party affiliation when they register, and last year newly registered Democrats made up only about 53 percent of those who chose a […]
Read MoreSchumer’s Critique Reveals Widening U.S.-Israel Divisions, Analysts Say
Senator Chuck Schumer’s harsh critique of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government revealed the widening gap between Israel and its most important ally, the United States, analysts said on Friday. But even some of Mr. Netanyahu’s rivals appeared reluctant to seize on the comments while the country is focused on the war in Gaza. […]
Read MoreLatinos, Shifting Toward Trump, Land at the Center of the 2024 Campaign
Former President Donald J. Trump’s growing support among Latino voters is threatening to upend the coalition that has delivered victories to Democrats for more than a decade, putting the politically divided group at the center of a tug of war that could determine elections across the country. Polls show that Mr. Trump’s standing with Latino […]
Read MoreThe House Vote to Force Tik Tok’s Sale Is a Mistake
America is politically polarized. But there is an issue on which both sides agree: We need more privacy and TikTok should not be banned. A record 72 percent of Americans want “more government regulation” of what companies can do with their data, according to an October report from Pew Research Center. And only 31 percent […]
Read MoreUniversities Need to Stick to Their Mission
For over a century, an understanding existed between American universities and the rest of the country. Universities educated the nation’s future citizens in whatever ways they saw fit. Their faculty determined what kind of research to carry out and how, with the understanding that innovation drives economic progress. This gave them an essential role and […]
Read MoreSome Black Voters Are Souring on Democrats. It May Be Part of a Natural Drift.
“I almost voted for him,” Felicia Lowe, a 55-year-old Black woman, told me on Tuesday as she exited the polling place at the Metropolitan branch of the Fulton County Library. The “him” in that statement is Donald Trump, and Lowe said that she had intended to vote for him the first time he ran for […]
Read MoreHow Biden Can Out-Populist the Populist
As Democrats puzzle over how President Biden can be so unpopular, it’s worth looking at the global context — because he’s actually doing better than most Western leaders. In the Morning Consult approval ratings for global leaders, Biden polls better than leaders in Canada, Britain, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, France […]
Read MoreIn Fighting the Far Right, Is Germany Undermining Its Democracy?
For Germany — a country that knows something about how extremists can hijack a government — the surging popularity of the far right has forced an awkward question. How far should a democracy go in restricting a party that many believe is bent on undermining it? It is a quandary that politicians and legal experts […]
Read MoreThe Tension Behind Trump’s Appeals to Black Voters
He has repeatedly accused three Black prosecutors investigating him of “reverse racism.” He told a gathering of Black Republicans that Black people like him because he, too, has been charged by the criminal justice system. And he has suggested that Black people relate to his mug shot. There’s a fundamental tension in Donald J. Trump’s […]
Read MorePortugal’s Election: What to Know
When António Costa, a prime minister well liked by European leaders, handily won his third term as prime minister in 2022, many Portuguese prepared for a lasting, stable government given his Socialist Party’s strong majority in Parliament. But by late last year, Mr. Costa had resigned, his government embroiled in a corruption investigation involving lithium […]
Read MoreWhy It’s Hard to Explain Joe Biden’s Unpopularity
Joe Biden is one of the most unpopular presidents in modern American history. In Gallup polling, his approval ratings are lower than those of any president embarking on a re-election campaign, from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump. Yet an air of mystery hangs around his lousy polling numbers. As The Washington Free Beacon’s Joe Simonson […]
Read MoreWhere Nikki Haley Won and What It Means
When the first New York Times/Siena College poll of the Republican primary was released in July, a quarter of Republican voters said they were not open to supporting Donald J. Trump. These “not Trump” voters were not like other Republicans. They were relatively affluent, moderate and highly educated. They supported immigration reform and aid to […]
Read MoreTrump’s Crushing Primary Triumph Masked Quiet Weaknesses
Donald J. Trump’s daunting level of Republican support helped him vanquish a field of presidential primary rivals in under two months. But he still hasn’t won over one small but crucial group of voters — the men and women who cost him a second term in 2020. His overwhelming primary victories, including more than a […]
Read MoreThe Trump-Biden Rematch Is Here. Americans Are Processing.
After weeks of campaign ads, political speeches and voting in more than two dozen primary contests, Americans are coming to terms with a reality that many had tried to avoid: a rematch. For months, large swaths of Democratic, independent and moderate Republican voters have moved through familiar emotional stages, processing the prospect of President Biden […]
Read MoreThe Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election
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Read MoreThe 2020 Election Is Back
It’s Biden vs. Trump. To me, that’s the only real takeaway from Super Tuesday, when President Biden and Donald J. Trump won nearly all of the delegates at stake. It will still be a week or two before they officially clinch their nominations, but at this point the primaries are effectively over. The general election […]
Read MoreAfter Super Tuesday, Trump Is Stronger Than He’s Ever Been
About 18 months ago, Donald Trump suffered one of his worst political defeats, when many of his loyalists and handpicked candidates were defeated in a midterm landscape that clearly favored the Republicans. A lot of people — I was one of them — thought that this might be the beginning of the end for him, […]
Read MoreBrighter Economic Mood Isn’t Translating Into Support for Biden
Eight months before the election, Americans feel slightly better about the state of the economy as inflation recedes and the labor market remains stable, but President Biden doesn’t appear to be benefiting. Among registered voters nationwide, 26 percent believe the economy is good or excellent, according to polling in late February by The New York […]
Read MoreDo Americans Have a ‘Collective Amnesia’ About Donald Trump?
Not all that long ago, many Americans committed hours a day to tracking then-President Donald J. Trump’s every move. And then, sometime after the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and before his first indictment, they largely stopped. They are having trouble remembering it all again. More than three years of distance from […]
Read MoreDonald Trump Is Running Against Dystopian Fantasies
President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting […]
Read MoreJoe Biden’s Superfans Think the Rest of America Has Lost Its Mind
Andrea Russell is a fixture on Earp Street, the quiet strip of rowhouses in South Philadelphia where she has lived for 45 years. In the afternoons, neighbors come and go from her living room as her 16-year-old cat, George, sits perched above a television that is usually tuned to cable news. Ms. Russell, a 77-year-old […]
Read MoreAcross the Board, Voters Give Better Marks to Trump’s Policies Than Biden’s
Not since Theodore Roosevelt ran against William Howard Taft in 1912 have voters gotten the opportunity to weigh the records of two men who have done the job of president. And despite holding intensely and similarly critical opinions both of President Biden and of his predecessor, Americans have much more positive views of Donald J. […]
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