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Letter from the U.K.

Watching an American Election from Across the Pond

Louisa Compton is overseeing coverage for Channel 4, trying to explain a strange election cycle to a bewildered Britain.
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Reporting & Essays

The Weekend Essay

The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris

The Trump campaign has portrayed the Vice-President’s father as a Marxist. He insists he’s been caricatured.
The Political Scene

The Tucker Carlson Road Show

After his Fox show was cancelled, Carlson spent a year in the wilderness, honing his vision of what the future of Trumpism might look like. This fall, he took his act on tour.
Profiles

The Improbable Rise of J. D. Vance

“Hillbilly Elegy” made him famous, and his denunciations of Donald Trump brought him liberal fans. Now, as a Vice-Presidential candidate, he’s remaking his image as the heir to the MAGA movement.
The Political Scene

Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America. Why Has No One Noticed?

The full effects of the President’s economic policies won’t be felt for years. That might be too late for Kamala Harris and other Democrats.

Commentary

The Lede

Is the Labor Movement Screwed No Matter Who Wins the Election?

A series of legal challenges could radically disempower the National Labor Relations Board—and other administrative agencies—regardless of who controls Congress or the White House.
The Lede

The Fight Over Truth in a Blue-Collar Pennsylvania County

Lackawanna County was once a Democratic stronghold. In 2024, it is a hotly contested battleground, where the stakes go far beyond politics.
The Lede

Kamala Harris Makes Her Closing Argument at the Ellipse

At a rally whose location evoked January 6th, Harris sounded the alarm about Trump’s authoritarian tendencies but refused to linger in the national shame spiral that has formed around him.
Comment

Standing Up to Trump

Jeff Bezos endorsed a Trump-era slogan—“Democracy Dies in Darkness”—for his newspaper, the Washington Post. Why wouldn’t he let it endorse a candidate?

Conversations

Q. & A.

Marty Baron on the Washington Post’s “Spineless” Endorsement Decision

The former executive editor discusses his relationship with the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, who was reportedly behind the last-minute call to kill an editorial supporting Kamala Harris.
Q. & A.

Why No Real Antiwar Movement Has Developed in Israel

Even many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s harshest critics have supported the military campaign in Gaza. “We are seeing a different war than you are seeing,” the writer Yossi Klein Halevi says.
Q. & A.

What the Closeness of This Election Suggests About the Future of American Politics

Nate Cohn unpacks the theories of how the Black and Hispanic electorates are changing.

From Our Columnists

The Sporting Scene

The United Charms of Baseball

The Dodgers World Series victory had it all: canny pitching, late-game heroics, and a reminder that the sport sets a civic example.
The Sporting Scene

The Influence of Sedona Prince

The basketball player has been central to the fight to end amateurism and improve gender equity in the N.C.A.A., and her story underscores the way that college sports are changing.
Fault Lines

The Perils of the Good-Enough Candidate

Despite Kamala Harris’s strong start, the race is now a tossup. Whatever happens, a sober reckoning with the limitations of her campaign is essential for Democrats going forward.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

Garbage Time at the 2024 Finish Line

Nine years in, Trump is in reach of another term as the technocrats struggle to contain him.

More News

The Political Scene

Trump’s Final Days on the Campaign Trail

Under assault from all sides, in the last weeks of his campaign, the former President speaks often of enemies from within, including those trying to take his life.
The Political Scene

How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board

Since the 2020 race, the state has been at the center of a national movement to contest elections. Now a group of unelected officials is sowing suspicions about the 2024 results.
American Chronicles

The Election Season That Fell Out of a Coconut Tree

Twenty-five stunning moments of the 2024 Presidential campaign, as told by the people who witnessed them up close.
The Political Scene

Safeguarding the Pennsylvania Election

For months, state officials have prepared to manage the threat of far-right conspiracists who may try to “stop the steal.”
Letter from the Southwest

The Conservative Strategy to Ban Abortion Nationwide

A local referendum in Texas is part of a long-term effort to block abortions through the courts.
The Lede

Will Laken Riley’s Murder Tip Georgia?

Native-born American women are almost never killed by illegal migrants. So why has Riley become a morbid icon of Trump’s campaign?
The Lede

The Trump Show Comes to Madison Square Garden

The rally featured Hulk Hogan, Rudy Giuliani, “Y.M.C.A.,” and a thrum of American nativism.
The Lede

The Obamas Campaign for Kamala Harris

In Georgia, Barack Obama spoke of character, and in Michigan, Michelle Obama reminded voters of the stakes for women’s lives.