Economy Most Important Issue to 2024 Presidential Vote
WHY TRUMP WON
While the legacy media has a meltdown searching for hitherto undiagnosed psychoses in the electorate to explain its embrace of a Hitlerian strongman, the truth is much simpler than their fictions.
This election is a reminder that after all the manufactured drama and overheated... See more
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September poll
from The Washington Post and Ipsos found that 54 percent of voters thought the Democratic Party was too liberal and 49 percent thought the Republican Party was too conservative.
September poll
from The Washington Post and Ipsos found that 54 percent of voters thought the Democratic Party was too liberal and 49 percent thought the Republican Party was too conservative.
Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
They are less likely to identify as “conservative” and mostly voted for him because they wanted a better economy. To keep banging on the drum - the back half of this generation is graduating into a land of uncertainty.
Per polling out of Michigan State University, Trump voters in this cycle, at least in Michigan, are much more likely to say that the country is “changing too fast, undermining traditional values” than they were in 2016, when researchers first found a strong correlation between aversion to social change and a vote for Trump.
That dividing line is... See more
That dividing line is... See more
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Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2026
A letter from the editor of The World Ahead
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By Tom Standage, Editor, The World Ahead 2026
This is Donald Trump’s world—we’re all just living in it. The disruptor-in-chief was the biggest factor shaping global affairs in 2025, and
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