President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House on Saturday in Washington.

Pitting the states against the nation is accelerating the US crisis

Donald Trump has in recent days turned the war against COVID-19 into a war against the states,in a desperate effort to shirk responsibility for his pandemic denialism.

  • Nicole Hemmer

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New Yorkers have been ordered to stay at home.

US finally gets a reality check thanks to COVID-19

Advocates of minimal government influence in daily life are suddenly having to change their tune.

  • Nicole Hemmer
Democratic presidential candidate and former vice-president Joe Biden takes a picture with the choir at the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma,Alabama.

The way Biden won should terrify the Trump campaign

Not only did Biden rack up much-needed delegates,he disproved Sanders' case for his candidacy.

  • Nicole Hemmer
Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Bloomberg is a difficult customer,so why is he polling so well?

Bloomberg's case is this:yes,he's been out of step with the party on cultural issues. But he has a history of political and economic success,and can beat Donald Trump,so Democrats should overlook his flaws and give him their vote.

  • Nicole Hemmer
Pete Buttigieg,the winner in Iowa by the narrowest of margins.

Democrats will move on from Iowa,but the damage has been done

At precisely the time Democrats need to be championing accessibility,transparency,and reliability in elections,they failed to deliver all three.

  • Nicole Hemmer
No photos are allowed inside the Senate chamber for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. An artist sketch shows Democrat Adam Schiff presenting an argument.

Trump's sham trial will still shine a light on White House wrongdoing

Donald Trump is not on trial,because the Republican majority has already decided to acquit him. The Senate trial is instead an opportunity to lay out the extent of White House wrongdoing.

  • Nicole Hemmer
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,a Democrat from California,walks though the US Capitol on Thursday.

Is Trump willing to risk war with Iran to cling to office?

We knew Trump was willing to risk election security to stay in office. Now we know he's willing to risk war,too.

  • Nicole Hemmer
In the US,the Great Recession ended in 2009,leading to a decade of uninterrupted economic expansion.

A decade that started with such promise ends with uncertainty

As bleak as things may look now for proponents of democracy around the globe,the story is not yet over.

  • Nicole Hemmer
An Afghan Security police carries his injured daughter after an attack near the US Bagram Air Base in Kabul. The Afghanistan Papers suggest the war is unwinnable for the US.

Afghanistan war lies reveal a crisis of faith in democracy

Now that it is clear they lied about Afghanistan as well,few Americans can even muster outrage.

  • Nicole Hemmer
Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher.

Turning the disgraced into war heroes

Look more closely at the war-crimes cases and you see they are less a function of Trump’s foreign policy than his cruelty-centred jingoist populism.

  • Nicole Hemmer