US Politics News & Analysis

Real peace is a slow, multidimensional process rooted in collective institutions. What radiates from the White House today is the opposite.

The funeral of President Jimmy Carter highlights an echo from the1980s ahead of the 2025 presidential inauguration.

Lessons can be gleaned from the past two administrations’ national security strategies when the Trump administration sets upon the task of writing its own in the New Year.

Despite a strong display of bipartisan Congressional support for NATO last year, Donald Trump's potential re-election still represents an existential threat to the Alliance’s future.

Leadership is expected to turn over in key Western states, bringing new policies that will reverberate throughout the global order. This backgrounder examines five key figures poised to form governments in the near future.

Exploring the reasons why Washington remains on the outside looking in on one of the United Nation’s most successful global standards.

Universal Basic Income remains an unpopular point of contention for many Americans, yet its influence continues to grow on the back of political pressure and successful examples like the Alaska Permanent Fund.

The online conspiracy group has faded from the limelight as prediction after prediction proved false, but the 2024 US presidential election represents a path back to relevance.

In a democracy, accountability is everything. And it seems as if impassioned partisans are not holding true to their half of the bargain.

If anything, the events of January 6 make democratic solidarity on the world stage even more pressing.

Biden promised big things for infrastructure on the campaign trail. Can his administration deliver?

In what seems to be an emerging norm for the executive branch, US President Joe Biden has wasted no time in dismantling key planks of his predecessor’s agenda.

The Biden administration has proposed a bold – and expensive – stimulus package to reinvigorate the US economy, and its legislative path will say a lot about how US politics will operate over the next two years.

How big of a problem is US student debt, and what can we expect the Biden administration to do about it?

The framers of US cyber policy can learn a lot from President Eisenhower’s prescient farewell address.