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  • The US Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein

    Why are third-party presidential candidates a threat to Biden in 2024?

    This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Nitish Pahwa of Slate about why Democrats are worried that Biden could suffer the same fate as Hilary Clinton in 2016
  • FILE - President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, leaves after a court appearance, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. House Republicans are warning Hunter Biden that they will move to hold him in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t appear this month for a closed-door deposition, raising the stakes in the growing standoff over testimony from President Joe Biden's son. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

    Hunter Biden indicted on tax charges in California in new criminal case

  • two women and a microphone

    US university presidents face firestorm over evasive answers on antisemitism

  • Democratic lawmaker Jamaal Bowman

    Jamaal Bowman on his censure: ‘This Republican House is unserious and unproductive’ – as it happened

  • Representative Jamaal Bowman at the Capitol on 22 June 2023.

    Democrats decry House censure vote as ‘attempt to silence’ Jamaal Bowman

  • A state legislature votes in the statehouse.

    Georgia Republicans finalize district maps to comply with judge’s order

Opinion

  • ‘Trump holds an insurmountable and growing lead. Indictments and headlines have only boosted his popularity.’

    The Republican debate was another grim exercise in futility and attention-seeking

    Lloyd Green
  • Gordon Brown

    Here’s what Trump 2.0 will bring: ignorance and vengeance in the US, chaos for world order

    Gordon Brown
  • Sidney Blumenthal

    The 15 questions that will not be asked at the Republican debate

    Sidney Blumenthal
  • ‘With today’s pioneers of autocracy, things tend to only get really bad when they enter office the second time.’

    A second Trump term will be far more autocratic than the first. He’s telling us

    Jan-Werner Müller

In depth

  • The Republican presidential candidates at the debate on 6 December 2023.

    Swings, misses but no clear winner: five takeaways from the fourth Republican debate

    • Twin black-and-white images of a white man with neck-length hair and a beard, wearing a dark three-piece suit, both in profile, with the images facing each other.

      Longstreet: the Confederate general who switched sides on race

    • A pile of "I voted" stickers.

      Exodus of election officials in one county rings alarm for US democracy

    • Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves the Capitol after being expelled from the House of Representatives, Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Washington. The House has voted to expel Santos following a critical ethics report on his conduct that included converting campaign donations for his own use, making him just the sixth member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by his colleagues. Expulsion requires support from two-third of the House. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

      How George Santos responded to being fact-checked on 14 of his biggest lies

    • gavin newsom and joe biden talking

      As Gavin Newsom’s political star rises, some Californians are wary of his ‘new persona’

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