Biden’s bait-and-switch presidency
Will the ‘ram-it-through’ mentality characterize the remainder of Biden’s first two years?
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.
Thursday
Tuesday
School parents are mad as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore
Political pressure to reopen schools is growing more intense
Thursday
Why are people gloating over Rush Limbaugh’s death?
Political divisions have crushed our sense of decency
Wednesday
Earmarks rise from the dead in the Democratic Congress
Why did they go away? Why does Nancy Pelosi want them back?
Friday
Chasing Chaucer and Beowulf out of the curriculum
A secular pilgrimage to the wrong destination
Friday
The end game
How can America get through the final, flailing days of Trump’s presidency?
Wednesday
This is not what a constitutional republic looks like
We rightly see this effort to seize control of the Capitol as anti-democratic, as an embryonic and inchoate coup attempt
Monday
Why Trump must attend Biden’s inauguration
This ‘eye for an eye’ is blinding our democracy
Wednesday
Who would want to be Joe Biden’s attorney general?
The prospect of tit-for-tat investigations and prosecutions of former administrations is not a happy one
Friday
Those emails seeking donations aren’t junk mail
They are beacons of the civil society Tocqueville considered crucial to American democracy
Friday
Are Trump’s lawyers big enough to back their claims up?
We’ve heard enough rumors, conspiracy theories and ‘opening arguments’
Friday
The American media is failing you
Journalism has become partisan promotion
Wednesday
Morning in America or mourning in America?
The Biden and Trump campaigns are taking vastly different approaches to the final week before the election
Friday
A serious debate that leaves Biden with lingering bruises
Will allegations of Biden family corruption ever be properly scrutinized?
Friday
Behind the social-media blackout of Biden family corruption
If a bombshell goes off in the forest and no one is allowed to talk about it, does it make a sound?
Wednesday
Did the VP debate change a single mind?
A predictable clash between two solid professionals
Wednesday
Team Biden will be delighted with the debate
From our UK edition
The first presidential debate is the most important — and Joe Biden won it. These contests should be understood — and judged — as political events, not as high-school debating contests. Ask yourself: what should a successful candidate accomplish? He should put forward his own vision, define his opponent, generate enthusiasm among his voters (to
Thursday
Closing time: the coming Tory brawl over Covid rules
From our UK edition
39 min listen
Another Conservative civil war threatens to bubble over, so will the government start taking its backbenchers seriously? (00:55) Plus, the contentious fight over the next Supreme Court nominee (15:25) and what is it like to be in Madagascar during the pandemic? (29:05) With Political Editor James Forsyth; Chair of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers
Who rules supreme in America?
From our UK edition
Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Democrats and Republicans began fighting over how to fill her seat — and when. The stakes are high because the Supreme Court is so important. It can invalidate any federal, state or local law by ruling that it violates the US Constitution. And its decisions
Friday
What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means
Trump is bringing major changes to the Middle East
