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Clarence Thomas’s wife is back in the news for supporting a group opposed to stricter ethics rules for the Supreme Court

Can Jon Tester win again in Montana?

University leaders have learnt some lessons, but face a tough test this autumn

The electoral college, not the popular vote, decides who becomes president

The presidential debate was a success for the vice-president

Spreading their forecasts through social media can be lucrative—and divisive

Murder is declining across the country, but Boston has led the way

Lessons from Pennsylvania

Democrats reliably win statewide in local races, but fail in presidential votes. Will this time be different?

Outbreaks of EEE and West Nile virus have health officials on the alert

And what its absence means for election forecasting

She’s better at it

It could well work

A new era dawns for America’s self-declared finest news source

How many people could Donald Trump actually deport?

New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes

From joyrides and drugs to economic dynamism

Legal, logistical and political hurdles abound. But even unsuccessful attempts could breed chaos

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would claim to be fair—one by cracking down, the other by loosening the reins

They must pull off the biggest reversal of electoral disadvantage since 1978

Playing the state’s energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin

Neither market turbulence nor Donald Trump’s stormy bombast can ruffle the Fed’s calm pilot

What if Joe Biden were still the nominee?

As the Democrats’ convention ends, the general election begins in earnest

The scarcity of protests is striking

The Starliner mishap is another embarrassment for Boeing

Making sense of demolition derbies

The governor of Illinois is thinking big

The shift exemplifies the fluid nature of migration

A victory would be her triumph, and his, but a loss would be his responsibility

Historically, polls have tended to overstate the strength of third parties

Who is going to tell Donald Trump?

But that does not justify Republican efforts to put Christianity into classrooms

And the war in Gaza is not Kamala Harris’s Vietnam

According to our Carrie Bradshaw index

Why the polls don’t tell the whole story

The Democratic nominee will have tricky territory to navigate at next week’s party convention

Its build-up could start as early as 2026

Going after Georgia’s popular Republican governor will do him no good in the state

America’s J1 visa programme shows how open borders can build cultural links

The promise of the YIGBY movement

In Pennsylvania at least, it has upped its ground game

Kamala Harris’s running-mate is hard to categorise

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are trying to make Democrats normal again

As Republicans seek to brand their rivals as dangerously liberal, Democrats are matching Donald Trump’s public displays of enthusiasm

Compared with a bolder but more divisive alternative, the Minnesota governor was the easier choice

It is the first lead for a Democratic contender since October 2023

Her triumphant comeback at the Paris Olympics confirms her as also one of the most popular

A nicotine pouch has stimulated America’s young men—and the culture wars

The latest surveys point to a tightening race

California’s Highway 1 is showing the limits of mankind’s ingenuity

A second Trump administration could lock in a conservative supermajority for decades

Some party enthusiasts think so, but realists see re-energised campaigning there as a savvy Florida feint

The country is unaware of the dangers ahead and of the costs to prepare for them

What does her record reveal about her immigration policy?

In Michigan, Republicans are selling a kinder, gentler Trumpism to college-educated voters. It isn’t sticking yet

But the forecasting and tracking of America’s presidential race will resume shortly

Life, liberty and the pursuit of liquor

A big-data analysis offers explanations—and hope

The lessons of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and Hillary Clinton

America’s TikTok election just became more interesting

Abortion has been the issue on which the presumptive Democratic nominee has been most visible and effective

The race to define the new presumptive nominee

Expect tougher words on Israel, and continuity on Russia and China

She aims to build on the president’s social-care agenda while escaping blame for inflation

Ms Harris inherits some of Joe Biden’s vulnerabilities—and brings a few of her own

How the Democrats’ likely candidate changes the race

But, if nominated, that does not rule out her defeating Donald Trump

The embattled president has endorsed Kamala Harris, his vice-president, as his successor

The lawyer, whose parents are Indian immigrants, seems to prioritise ambition

The candidate thrills his party but mixes his message

The selection of J.D. Vance means that Donald Trump’s influence may linger

It strengthened him politically and led to constitutional protections for presidents, not citizens

Protecting presidents requires communication, not just lots of men with guns

From head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to convicted foreign agent

After a brief lull, pressure is growing to replace him as the Democratic nominee

The ruling may be reversed—but delay helps the former president

What Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick suggests about how he would govern

A frenzied media hunt is under way

The left thinks the shooting was just a performance; the right sees an inside job. Will the truth matter?

The shooting is a dark turn in an already chaotic presidential campaign

Could abortion rights and “fixing the damn roads” take Michigan’s governor to the White House?

Why the party is failing to mount a concerted push to replace its nominee

His performance wasn’t perfect and the Democratic Party rebellion is far from over

Social conservatives and fiscal hawks will be disappointed. Opponents of immigration will not

The uproar over his candidacy reveals dysfunction afflicting both major parties

And some senior Democrats may merely be holding their fire

Would Kamala Harris fare better?

The Goodmans were mayors for 25 years. Their evolution mirrors that of Sin City

How Doug Burgum went from dark horse to favourite

Nor will it resolve the Democratic Party’s dilemma

What happens next in the Democratic leadership saga may depend on the First Lady

Banning it would be political suicide. But it could get harder to find in conservative states

The Supreme Court weakened regulators and created uncertainty, inviting a “tsunami of lawsuits”

The bird’s plight is a study in unintended consequences

Big decisions arrived on guns, abortion, homelessness, presidential power—and more

A president who prides himself on the common touch is insulting everyone’s common sense