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* When we said the campaign should be shorter, this wasn't what we had in mind. * In 2009, a couple not on the guest list attended Barack Obama's first [...]

On Sunday morning in Lubbock, Texas, the congregation that gathers at Alliance Church doesn't need to be told to greet their neighbors. Dotted with West Texas flair--cowboy boots, shiny belt [...]

* At this rate, Candace Owens is going to discredit antisemitism. * Biden's departure from the presidential race followed nearly a month of two rare things. One was press coverage [...]

Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who [...]

On July 30, Kamala Harris released the first TV ad of her presidential campaign. The 60-second spot, titled "Fearless," leans heavily on biography. The narrator begins with Harris's career as […]

Even before 1:46 P.M. on Sunday, July 21, when Joe Biden declared that he had changed his mind and would not be running for a second term as president, the [...]

After a few speeches at the outset that were heavy on theatrics, Kamala Harris's 'freedom'-focused presidential campaign has remained awfully light on substance. 'This campaign is a fight for the [...]

Political strategists are locked into the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Market strategists are also considering which stocks will do best in different backdrops. Here are 19 stocks [...]

To help you understand what's going on in U.S. politics and the presidential election, and what we expect to happen in the future, our highly experienced Kiplinger Letter team will [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive "The US in brief" as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Ilhan Omar, a congresswoman who has been fiercely critical of Israel, won a primary race [...]

Byline: Ross Barkan New York Democrats are thrilled that Kamala Harris will now top the presidential ticket. Harris is still something of an underdog against Donald Trump in the fall, [...]

AMERICA'S VOTERS have not given credit to the Biden White House for their country's economic boom. Will they punish Kamala Harris for a bust? After growing at rates that were [...]

ALMOST EVERYTHING about the scene in a packed 10,000-seat basketball arena in Philadelphia on the evening of August 6th would have been unimaginable just six weeks ago. First, there was [...]

KEN MARTIN, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labour Party (DFL), Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, tells a story about how the state's governor, Tim Walz, got his start in politics. [...]

'CAN YOU BELIEVE they put that thing in writing?' Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, asked supporters in July. Dry policy documents—and this one runs to over 900 pages—do not [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive 'The US in brief' as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. As the initial excitement about Kamala Harris's sudden elevation to the top of the Democratic [...]

To help you understand what is going on in politics, our highly experienced Kiplinger Letter team will keep you abreast of the latest developments and forecasts ( (https://subscribe.kiplinger.com/servlet/OrdersGateway?cds_mag_code=KWP&cds_page_id=268559&cds_response_key=I3ZWZ001) Get a [...]

TLDR Former President Donald Trump has chosen Senator J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate Vance is known for being crypto-friendly, having reported holding $100,000-$250,000 in Bitcoin in 2022 [...]

FEW CONSIDER North Dakota, home to just under 800,000 people, to be a political laboratory. Though a beautiful and pleasant place to raise a family, North Dakota lacks a tourist [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive 'The US in brief' as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Joe Biden's interview with https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/07/06/joe-bidens-abc-interview-will-not-quell-doubts-about-his-future on Friday failed to reassure many Democrats. Four congressmen—Joe Morelle, [...]

STOP ME IF this sounds familiar. A president warns of an existential threat and says he alone can fix it. His advisers blithely deny facts that everyone can see with [...]

Some fires are hard to snuff out. The one that started after President Joe Biden's https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/06/28/joe-bidens-horrific-debate-performance-casts-his-entire-candidacy-into-doubt on June 27th, through which he stammered only semi-lucidly, is developing into a blaze. [...]

When you are a beleaguered leader struggling through a long campaign, an unfortunate metaphor lurks around every corner. So it proved for Rishi Sunak on a recent visit to a [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive 'The US in brief' as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Over the weekend leading Democrats https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/06/30/why-joe-biden-wont-go in support of Joe Biden's candidacy, arguing that his [...]

Ten years ago, Ferguson launched Rep. Cori Bush's and Wesley Bell's careers. Today, Israel's war in Gaza has them facing off. WESLEY BELL, St. Louis County's first-ever Black prosecuting attorney, [...]

The French head to the polls on June 30th for the first round of their most crucial election in modern times. After President Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly called a https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/06/10/why-frances-president-called-a-snap-election , [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive 'The US in brief' as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. The crowd chanted Joe Biden's name as he addressed a rally in North Carolina on [...]

THE MISSION for Joe Biden in the presidential debate held in Atlanta on June 27th was clear: to https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/06/13/joe-bidens-best-chance-to-shake-up-the-race , by showing that he was https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/06/20/are-americas-leading-presidential-candidates-up-to-it and thereby reverse the [...]

Cradling his demi of beer with a tattooed arm, Jocelyn needs few words to sum up the upcoming French election: 'It's all about Macron'. In the small town of Châteaudun, [...]

AMERICAN VOTERS have a unique opportunity in 2024: to compare the records of two candidates who have already served as president. That choice belongs to entrepreneurs and business leaders, too. [...]

https://www.economist.com/newsletters/us-in-brief to receive 'The US in brief' as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off on Thursday evening in Atlanta in this season's [...]

As France's flash parliamentary-election campaign officially got under way this week, Emmanuel Macron's centrist candidates were pounding the streets, trying to put on a brave face. After days handing out [...]