Our presidential elections suffer from a crisis of confidence.
Scores of anxious Americans await Nov. 5 with grave fears about integrity and fairness. Democrats decry the possibility of a candidate winning without a popular vote majority, and more than half of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen.
Many factors have brought us to this moment, but the strange mechanism known as the Electoral College ranks high among them.
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Schumer to force GOP vote on IVF
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Bridging America’s divide: Understanding moral misconceptions
This op-ed is part of The Hill’s “How to Fix America” series exploring solutions to some of America’s most pressing problems.
We often hear that Democrats and Republicans are worlds apart. But what if that perception is the real issue? Even the most thoughtful among us can fall into the habit of assuming the ideals of the other side. Research reveals that this subtle, yet pervasive, belief — not policy differences — is what truly deepens America’s divide.
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Tim Walz pick excites hopes of taking US healthcare beyond Obamacare era
Advocates are enthused by Harris’s running mate, who as Minnesota governor called healthcare a ‘basic human right’
When Kamala Harris picked the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as veep for the Democratic presidential ticket, advocates for healthcare reform felt a jolt of electricity.
Here, they saw a man who proclaimed healthcare a “basic human right”, reformed medical debt collections, and who laid the groundwork for expanded government insurance and denied corporate health insu...
‘Say it to my face’ says Kamala Harris as she again challenges Donald Trump to debate – as it happened
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Kamala Harris’s campaign has announced a $50m advertising blitz ahead of the Democratic national convention next month with a television ad that portrays the presumptive Democratic nominee as “fearless”.
The 60-second ad will be the first in a series of paid media efforts ahead of the convention, which begins 19 August in Chicago.
We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead. Where every senior can retire with dignity. But Donald Trump wants to take our country backward. To give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and end the Affordable Care Act. But we are not going back.
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Mike Johnson plans Republican mega-bill ready to push through if Trump wins
House speaker plans far-reaching bill including tax cuts and border security to make Trump ‘the most consequential president’
Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, is planning a sweeping ideological legislative drive that aims to make Donald Trump “the most consequential president of the modern era” if the Republicans win power in November.
A far-reaching bill containing a range of policy priorities at once – including tax cuts worth trillions, border security and rolling back Obamacare – is being prepared to avoid the mistakes the GOP believed happened early in Trump’s first term, when Johnson says the party wasted time because its victory over Hillary Clinton took it by surprise.
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‘Donald Trump is a symptom, not the cause’: Tim Kaine’s journey to healing
Hillary Clinton’s running mate experienced defeat by Trump. His new book documents his attempt to understand America
Jack Kemp. Joe Lieberman. John Edwards. Sarah Palin. Paul Ryan. All ran for vice-president of the United States and fell short. All had to confront the question: what next? The same fate befell Tim Kaine, whose turn as running mate to Hillary Clinton in 2016 ended in a catastrophic defeat by Donald Trump and Mike Pence. The US has not recovered, as polarisation, rancou...
Harris going on 2024 reproductive health access tour
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Republicans set to grill CDC director
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GOP on defense over abortion
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