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Emma Ashford: Morning, Matt. We finally have an answer to the question the world has been asking for months. The next president will be Donald Trump—and he seems to have won, if not by a landslide, then by a healthy margin in almost every key swing state. It’s a clear mandate from the voters for […]
Europe is better prepared to work with a Trump White House than it was eight years ago but still needs to do more to boost its defense spending, former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview with Foreign Policy. “Though the Europeans are better prepared now, we need to do much more,” said […]
Economists, like much of the world, are having to recalibrate today. Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election answers some questions and poses others. Here’s one question: How good will Trump be for the world’s biggest economy in the short run—and how scary over the longer haul, not just for the United States? […]
By most accounts, this presidential election will be close. We don’t have the kinds of landslide elections we had in 1936, 1972, or 1984. Instead, we have elections that come down to a handful of swing states and slivers of the electorate within those states. The landmark book Insecure Majorities by my colleague, Princeton University […]
At a rally on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, former U.S. President Donald Trump vowed, if elected, to impose tariffs of between 25 and 100 percent on Mexico until it curbed migration at the U.S. southern border. Later that day in Pittsburgh, Trump said he would impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico to crack down […]
The 2020 U.S. presidential election took four days to call and was plagued by lawsuits and conspiracy theories surrounding election integrity and the electoral process. Although many state election officials have taken action to make the process smoother in 2024, there are still concerns in some swing states where the election could be tight. Counting […]
Comparing Trump’s and Harris’s foreign-policy plans in Latin America. Source link
Comparing Trump’s and Harris’s foreign-policy plans in Africa. Source link
In the final days of the U.S. presidential campaign, the media needs to do a much better job highlighting the differences between what Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump deem to be legitimate in the name of partisan warfare. Dueling “garbage” remarks from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe and U.S. President Joe Biden have taken up […]
Cook-Steve-foreign-policy-columnist4Steven A. Cook By Steven A. Cook, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Everywhere I have been in the past month—New York City, Tulsa, Santa Fe, Dallas, Seattle—someone asks me: “What are the differences between what a […]