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This piece appeared in The Sunday Times on 14 December 2024 This is not the way it was supposed to end. Joe Biden has faced more than his fair share of setbacks. “When you get knocked down, get up!” his father, Joseph Biden Sr, would say. And Biden will get up this time, too, after…
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This piece appeared in The Sunday Times 4 August 2024 Kamala Harris is expected to name a Democratic running-mate in the coming days. Does it matter who presidential candidates pick? Or are the “veepstakes”, the parlour game beloved of Washington politicos, no more than an entertaining sideshow? Campaigns like to think that a running-mate from…
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A version of the following piece appeared in The Sunday Times on December 31, 2023 Presidential election years have often struck Americans as deeply portentous. To Walt Whitman, the self-described “poet of democracy”, 1860 was “the year of meteors” in which “the comet that came unannounced out of the North flaring in heaven” augured a…
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A version of the following piece appeared in The Sunday Times, December 23, 2023. It is one minute to midnight for American liberals. For them, the stakes in the 2024 presidential election are no less than the survival of democracy. The Colorado Supreme Court’s bold decision that Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency because…
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