Alexander Panetta

This American voting year began on a frosty night in Iowa, when thousands gathered in places like a high school gym outside Des Moines to hear speakers like Joel Akers. The longtime Republican had twice voted for Donald Trump, but […]

American politics, beyond Donald Trump. For nearly 90 minutes, viewers were granted a potential glimpse of it in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate. And it’s not just the gracious banter and arm-slapping post-debate bonhommie between Republican J.D. Vance and Democrat Tim Walz,

Gunshots fired into a Kamala Harris campaign office in Arizona. Repeat assassination plots against Donald Trump.  Suspicious packages to election officials in more than 20 states, containing written threats or white powder. Election workers are being given gloves to handle

What exactly would Donald Trump’s tariff plans do to Canada? A prominent Washington think-tank has an answer — and it’s not pretty. The Peterson Institute for International Economics released a sprawling report Thursday calculating the effect Trump’s policies might have on

Why would Donald Trump devote valuable campaign time to talking with podcast hosts about cocaine benders, golf swings and boxing legends? The strategy driving this is no secret. Trump’s campaign has acknowledged what it sees as a key to victory on Nov.

The reason Kamala Harris keeps visiting North Carolina is made evident in an eye-popping pattern her campaign volunteers have noticed while knocking on doors. What they see are signs of a state growing so rapidly that Asheville’s airport is a giant construction site and almost

Kamala Harris exorcised the ghosts of June. After needling Donald Trump in their televised debate, nudging him off topic, she finally stuck the landing that famously eluded her boss. It was a catastrophic cognitive blip in June’s debate that ultimately

This was supposed to be the week the first ballots were cast in a swing state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, with the start of voting by mail. That’s now been plunged into disarray. The cause is a feud

There’s a reason Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is sending a bus laden with spokespeople to Florida next week. And it’s not because she expects to win Florida. Her plan is to draw national attention to that state’s abortion referendum this

A young state senator in Michigan foresaw trouble before the last U.S. presidential election, warning of looming chaos in the counting of votes. In fairness, this hardly required clairvoyance: the potential for problems was apparent, even months before the 2020