With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Kamala Harris is a contender: where now for US politics?
Taking into account the powerful role of Black Lives Matter, women’s rights, and anti-racist sentiment in recent US elections, the Republicans now face a serious challenge, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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DONALD TRUMP was facing an easy ride to the White House when he was matched against Joe Biden. Now he has to face off against Kamala Harris things look very different. Trump has good reason to be scared.
He might even lose, again, although it is quite likely he will claim he won, against all the evidence. But he knows now he is in a race.
US presidential elections are usually consequential, even if those consequences are often surprising. After all, it was not the non-WASP US golden boy JFK who ended the Vietnam war. That was forced on Tricky Dickie Nixon, who was later forced to resign from office in disgrace.
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