Until very recently, Andrew Yang thought that the need for a universal basic income would be a big issue in the 2024 election, as “many of the trends that I campaigned on were going to become completely clear to more and more Americans” over the next four years. He was arguing, for example, that between […] More

Let’s drop all pretenses, shall we? The president has decided he’s had enough of running the country and is running full time for re-election instead. One could argue that this has been Donald J. Trump’s approach from the start — the last three years of shriek-tweeting, Fox-bingeing, and stadium rallies have had little to do […] More

The Times asked the Democratic presidential candidates for their views on housing and homelessness. (Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard did not complete the survey.) Source: Elections – nytimes.com More

As the United States’ death toll raced toward 100,000, Donald Trump went golfing. The number of deaths never had to reach such a staggering figure — and it will surely climb far beyond it — but it did because in the early days, Trump made excuses for the Chinese response, dragged his feet on an […] More

The campaign as we know it is over, especially if candidates can’t even interact with voters. Source: Elections – nytimes.com More