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American democracy,democracy in the United States,democracy in the US

What saved American democracy?

by Bo Rothstein on 13th January 2021

Democracy in the United States survived the assault by Donald Trump and his supporting mob. But why it survived raises questions awkward for some.

Trump

Whither America?

by Joseph Stiglitz on 13th January 2021

It will take more than one person—and more than one presidential term—to overcome America’s longstanding challenges.

Joe Biden,down-ballot,Democrats,statehouses

Joe Biden’s missing coat-tails

by Matt Mawhinney on 11th December 2020

Attention across the world to the US elections has focused only on the federal level. But the battle for the statehouses mattered too.

centre-left, Democratic Party

The Biden victory and the future of the centre-left

by EJ Dionne Jr on 4th December 2020

Postwar global progress has hinged on a transatlantic alliance of progressive parties. The election in the United States potentially opens a new chapter.

Trump, Republicans

The lost cause of the Trumpocracy

by Elizabeth Drew on 13th November 2020

Like the southerners who never could get over their loss in the American civil war, Trump has nothing left but his own mythology.

EU fiscal framework, fiscal rules, Maastricht rules, Stability and Growth Pact

Joe Biden should not miss the Bretton Woods moment

by Peter Bofinger on 9th November 2020

Peter Bofinger argues the incoming president must abjure the mercantilist language of his predecessor in favour of a progressive response to globalisation.

transatlantic

A new start for transatlantic social democracy?

by Knut Dethlefsen on 2nd November 2020

A Biden administration could join forces with progressive Europe to rebut polarising populism on both sides of the pond.

BlueGreen Alliance

An economic recovery that puts workers and the climate first

by Jessica Eckdish on 28th October 2020

The US election provides an opportunity to take stock of where the country is headed and whether it is addressing the deepening crises its society faces.

centre left,representation gap,dissatisfaction with democracy

How to move forward

by Sheri Berman on 27th October 2020

Sheri Berman explores how progressives can offer viable solutions and build effective political coalitions to reverse the populist victories since the financial crisis.

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US presidential election: last call for the liberal world order?

by Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Vittorio Emanuele Parsi on 26th October 2020

Some might have taken for granted the liberal world order of postwar decades. Until Donald Trump trashed it.

African-Americans, Black Lives Matter, BLM

Freedom is why Black Lives Matter

by Corey Wiggins on 22nd October 2020

The US presidential election highlights the gap between the promise of freedom and justice and reality for African-Americans fuelling the recent protests.

white working class

Are there any persuadable voters left in the US?

by Karen Nussbaum on 14th October 2020

‘White working-class men’ are seen as the hard core of Trump’s support, yet a big group of working-class voters—black, brown and white—are persuadable.

transatlantic relations

Reviving transatlantic relations after Trump

by Max Bergmann on 12th October 2020

If Joe Biden were to win the White House, transatlantic relations could return to default or be transformed—with much depending on how Europe reacted.

US economy

US economy mired in viral stagnation loop

by George Tyler on 31st August 2020

The travails of the US economy come amid a politics never so poisonous since the civil war.

centre left,representation gap,dissatisfaction with democracy

Where did Trumpism come from?

by Sheri Berman on 31st August 2020

A new book turns away from the ‘demand side’ focus of much populism analysis to the ‘supply’ of a plutocratic, ever-more right-wing Republican party.

centre left,representation gap,dissatisfaction with democracy

Protests, the left and the power of democracy

by Sheri Berman on 22nd June 2020

Sheri Berman urges the American left not to squander the sea-change in public opinion of recent weeks by only preaching to the converted.

right-wing nationalism

American traumas

by Karin Pettersson on 8th June 2020

Karin Pettersson explores the deep faultlines of unexpurgated racism tearing the United States apart.

globalisation of labour,deglobalisation

America’s unhappy middle

by Branko Milanovic on 1st June 2020

Branko Milanovic unpacks the malaise of the US middle class and its implications for Democratic strategy towards the presidential election.

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