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Joe Biden raised at least $25 million for his campaign during a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall Thursday. The president now has an overwhelming cash advantage over Donald Trump. But will his fundraising prowess buy him reelection?

America is in the grip of election fever. Donald Trump is riling up the nationalistic right. Bernie Sanders is riling up the progressive left. Once a more

They’re freaking out about a Biden-Trump rematch. It’s far too early to start worrying.

This is shaping up as a presidential election designed to Donald Rumsfeld’s specifications. At a 2002 press conference during the run-up to the disastrous Iraq War, George W. Bush’s hawkish defense secretary began talking about “known unknowns,” which he defined as things “we know ... we do not know.”In an election that offers the first rematch between an incumbent president and his predecessor since 1912, the campaign tactics and TV advertising blitz by...

If she stays in the race, Republicans will be reminded Trumpism is not what their party once backed. She might siphon off enough votes to get Biden reelected.

The traction gained by ultranationalist parties over the past decade may be a sign that an important consensus is breaking down.

There’s a distinctly Trumpian quality to the self-justifications proffered by the fundamentalist political scientists.

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