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The Economist - USA
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- At this stage in the Democratic primary polls are unreliable
- Abstract: But they can predict who will be at the front of the pack with some accuracy
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: But they can predict who will be at the front of the pack with some accuracy
- The stratolaunch
- PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Republican state legislatures are overturning ballot initiatives
- Abstract: The conservative suspicion of the demos is alive and well
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The conservative suspicion of the demos is alive and well
- Pete Buttigieg fuses liberalism and tradition
- Abstract: This is a natural extension of his marriage
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: This is a natural extension of his marriage
- Why Hollywood’s writers are sacking their representatives
- Abstract: The principal-agent problem strikes again
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The principal-agent problem strikes again
- New York’s measles outbreak puts vaccination rules on the spot
- Abstract: Many states have a “misinformed-parent exemption”
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Many states have a “misinformed-parent exemption”
- Democrats push for Washington, DC, to become the 51st state
- Abstract: Republicans, unsurprisingly, are less keen
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Republicans, unsurprisingly, are less keen
- The Democratic coalition is split over housing costs in cities
- Abstract: Long ignored, the YIMBYs are gaining ground
PubDate: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Long ignored, the YIMBYs are gaining ground
- What to make of the Mueller report
- Abstract: The redacted version suggests that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy
PubDate: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The redacted version suggests that Donald Trump is his own worst enemy
- Donald Trump is a pro wrestler masquerading as commander-in-chief
- Abstract: What WrestleMania says about the president and American voters
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: What WrestleMania says about the president and American voters
- The silver lining of America’s opioid tragedy
- Abstract: Transplants from people killed by drug overdoses are soaring
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Transplants from people killed by drug overdoses are soaring
- For the first time ever, a majority of Democrats identify as liberals
- Abstract: But will they vote that way'
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: But will they vote that way'
- Young apple trees are dying, and no one understands why
- Abstract: How do you like them apples'
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: How do you like them apples'
- What small-town America can learn from a town called Hell
- Abstract: An unusually-named settlement in Michigan escapes eternal damnation
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: An unusually-named settlement in Michigan escapes eternal damnation
- Donald Trump does away with another member of his cabinet
- Abstract: The president will struggle to get what he wants at the border
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The president will struggle to get what he wants at the border
- Nebraska faces a prison-crowding emergency
- Abstract: Longer sentences for violent crimes are why prisons are full
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Longer sentences for violent crimes are why prisons are full
- The new push to overturn Roe v Wade
- Abstract: A dozen states have introduced “heartbeat” bills that would ban early abortion
PubDate: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: A dozen states have introduced “heartbeat” bills that would ban early abortion
- The black-white wealth gap is unchanged after half a century
- Abstract: How to go about narrowing it
PubDate: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 04:00:00 +000
- Abstract: How to go about narrowing it
- Manhattan embraces road pricing
- Abstract: NYC should copy Singapore rather than London
PubDate: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: NYC should copy Singapore rather than London
- Gay mayors' Who cares'
- Abstract: The success of gay politicians completes a rapid change in social attitudes
PubDate: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:45:40 +000
- Abstract: The success of gay politicians completes a rapid change in social attitudes
- The sons of slaveholders quickly recovered their fathers’ wealth
- Abstract: A new paper quantifies how quickly Southern planter elites recovered from the civil war
PubDate: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:45:40 +000
- Abstract: A new paper quantifies how quickly Southern planter elites recovered from the civil war
- Happiness and voting
- Abstract: Why picking a party is like following a sports team
PubDate: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:45:40 +000
- Abstract: Why picking a party is like following a sports team
- Political speed-dating in New Hampshire
- Abstract: The Granite State’s political culture is wonderfully strange
PubDate: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:45:40 +000
- Abstract: The Granite State’s political culture is wonderfully strange
- How many civilians does America kill in air strikes'
- Abstract: The Pentagon does not really know
PubDate: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:45:40 +000
- Abstract: The Pentagon does not really know
- Jared Polis, Colorado’s governor, is an unusual breed: a libertarian
Democrat- Abstract: He must strike a difficult balance
PubDate: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: He must strike a difficult balance
- William Barr, executive assistant to Donald Trump
- Abstract: The benefits of an attorney-general with a capacious view of presidential authority
PubDate: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:42:12 +000
- Abstract: The benefits of an attorney-general with a capacious view of presidential authority
- Donald Trump claims vindication over the Mueller report
- Abstract: But it may not prove as deflating for Democrats as it seems
PubDate: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:42:12 +000
- Abstract: But it may not prove as deflating for Democrats as it seems
- Why California’s governor is suing Huntington Beach
- Abstract: Can a lawsuit compel upscale cities to build more housing'
PubDate: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:42:12 +000
- Abstract: Can a lawsuit compel upscale cities to build more housing'
- Hanging with the anti-vaxxers
- Abstract: Scientists and public-health officials could learn something from them
PubDate: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:42:12 +000
- Abstract: Scientists and public-health officials could learn something from them
- The Supreme Court does not like gerrymandering
- Abstract: That does not mean the nine justices will stop it
PubDate: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:42:12 +000
- Abstract: That does not mean the nine justices will stop it
- Bet on O’Rourke
- Abstract: The Texan Democrat has a rare ability to control his own narrative
PubDate: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The Texan Democrat has a rare ability to control his own narrative
- Why legacy places should be abolished
- Abstract: Giving the children of alumni a leg-up makes no sense
PubDate: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Giving the children of alumni a leg-up makes no sense
- Democrats raise doubts about Georgia’s election for governor
- Abstract: It is not yet proven that voter suppression changed the result
PubDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:41:11 +000
- Abstract: It is not yet proven that voter suppression changed the result
- The Supreme Court rules that ICE can deport green card holders
- Abstract: Immigrants leaving prison can be rearrested at any time
PubDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:41:11 +000
- Abstract: Immigrants leaving prison can be rearrested at any time
- New York’s proposed bottle bill may actually hurt recycling
- Abstract: Scavengers will benefit at the expense of municipal programmes
PubDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:41:11 +000
- Abstract: Scavengers will benefit at the expense of municipal programmes
- Chicago’s troubled police force gets federal oversight
- Abstract: How much difference will this make to the way officers behave'
PubDate: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:41:11 +000
- Abstract: How much difference will this make to the way officers behave'
- The Irish conquest of America
- Abstract: This St Patrick’s Day, Irish-Americans can celebrate the blarneyfication of their democracy
PubDate: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: This St Patrick’s Day, Irish-Americans can celebrate the blarneyfication of their democracy
- Why more undocumented migrants are reaching America
- Abstract: Donald Trump’s habit of insulting Mexicans appears to have backfired
PubDate: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Donald Trump’s habit of insulting Mexicans appears to have backfired
- Proposals to tax pieds-à-terre in New York are gaining ground
- Abstract: London and Vancouver have both come up with ways to tax occasional residents
PubDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:43:52 +000
- Abstract: London and Vancouver have both come up with ways to tax occasional residents
- Mar-a-Lago, massage parlours and selling access to the president
- Abstract: The Trump administration collects chancers, influence peddlers—maybe worse
PubDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:43:52 +000
- Abstract: The Trump administration collects chancers, influence peddlers—maybe worse
- The benefits of America’s hot economy have been unevenly spread
- Abstract: Unemployment rates for African-Americans have fallen farthest and fastest
PubDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:43:52 +000
- Abstract: Unemployment rates for African-Americans have fallen farthest and fastest
- Tech giants face new threats from the government and regulators
- Abstract: Congress, prosecutors and bureaucrats are in the mood to move fast and break-up things
PubDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:43:52 +000
- Abstract: Congress, prosecutors and bureaucrats are in the mood to move fast and break-up things
- American prosecutors uncover a huge university-admissions scam
- Abstract: Bribe styles of the rich and famous
PubDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Bribe styles of the rich and famous
- Amid the opioid crisis, a different drug comes roaring back
- Abstract: Deaths caused by meth use have risen 18-fold this decade
PubDate: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Deaths caused by meth use have risen 18-fold this decade
- The Trump administration and the Indo-Pakistan crisis
- Abstract: How America First works in Kashmir
PubDate: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:49:20 +000
- Abstract: How America First works in Kashmir
- The right way to help poor children and their mothers
- Abstract: Why cash beats government-funded childcare
PubDate: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:49:20 +000
- Abstract: Why cash beats government-funded childcare
- Tony Evers seems to be following Scott Walker’s playbook
- Abstract: Democrats are drawing battle lines in Wisconsin
PubDate: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:49:20 +000
- Abstract: Democrats are drawing battle lines in Wisconsin
- Political competition is moderating Texas Republicans
- Abstract: Bathroom bills are out; funding schools is in
PubDate: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:49:20 +000
- Abstract: Bathroom bills are out; funding schools is in
- African-Americans are the Democrats’ most loyal constituency
- Abstract: They are now at the centre of the party’s strategy
PubDate: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:49:20 +000
- Abstract: They are now at the centre of the party’s strategy
- America’s porous wall between church and state
- Abstract: A Supreme Court case could make the holes bigger
PubDate: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: A Supreme Court case could make the holes bigger
- The politicisation of white evangelical Christianity is hurting it
- Abstract: A group of disenchanted evangelicals, the “exvies”, is among the denomination’s biggest threats
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:42:16 +000
- Abstract: A group of disenchanted evangelicals, the “exvies”, is among the denomination’s biggest threats
- California’s teachers’ strikes conceal a conflict of
generations- Abstract: Teachers are striking over pay as pensions and health-care costs are eating up budgets
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:42:16 +000
- Abstract: Teachers are striking over pay as pensions and health-care costs are eating up budgets
- Imagine there’s no politics
- Abstract: It’s easy if you try. But it’s not a good way for Democrats to devise badly needed climate policy
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:42:16 +000
- Abstract: It’s easy if you try. But it’s not a good way for Democrats to devise badly needed climate policy
- Congress is trying to create a federal privacy law
- Abstract: The fourth attempt in 45 years turns on how federal law will supersede state laws
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:42:16 +000
- Abstract: The fourth attempt in 45 years turns on how federal law will supersede state laws
- The Pentagon changes its focus to Russia and China
- Abstract: After 18 years of IEDs in the Middle East, America’s armed forces are planning for high-tech warfare
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:42:15 +000
- Abstract: After 18 years of IEDs in the Middle East, America’s armed forces are planning for high-tech warfare
- Michael Cohen’s turn in the barrel
- Abstract: The testimony from the president’s former fixer was at once familiar and shocking
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The testimony from the president’s former fixer was at once familiar and shocking
- American foreign policy is being tested on four fronts
- Abstract: Mike Pompeo is more visible than Rex Tillerson was. But American foreign policy is still all about the president
PubDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Mike Pompeo is more visible than Rex Tillerson was. But American foreign policy is still all about the president
- The 9/11 compensation fund is running out of money
- Abstract: The fund for victims of the terrorist attack is struggling to meet all claims
PubDate: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The fund for victims of the terrorist attack is struggling to meet all claims
- Donald Trump’s real target is not illegal immigration but diversity
- Abstract: That battle is already lost
PubDate: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: That battle is already lost
- What Rahm Emanuel has done for Chicago
- Abstract: His “global city” still has deep-seated fiscal and social problems
PubDate: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: His “global city” still has deep-seated fiscal and social problems
- America’s cops take an interest in social media
- Abstract: Best to avoid terms like “police brutality”
PubDate: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:49:40 +000
- Abstract: Best to avoid terms like “police brutality”
- The surprising revival of the Hawaiian language
- Abstract: Could that success be replicated elsewhere'
PubDate: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:49:40 +000
- Abstract: Could that success be replicated elsewhere'
- Will the courts let Donald Trump build his wall'
- Abstract: Even if they do, this will not fix what ails the border
PubDate: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Even if they do, this will not fix what ails the border
- Bernie Sanders jumps into a crowded pool
- Abstract: His success in pulling Democrats to the left may be his undoing
PubDate: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: His success in pulling Democrats to the left may be his undoing
- Property crime rates test San Franciscans’ values
- Abstract: Violent crime is down. The more petty sort remains stubbornly high
PubDate: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Violent crime is down. The more petty sort remains stubbornly high
- The interminable abortion war
- Abstract: Donald Trump thinks abortion may be an election-winner. The Democrats might even prove him right
PubDate: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Donald Trump thinks abortion may be an election-winner. The Democrats might even prove him right
- Democrats should take a good look at Amy Klobuchar
- Abstract: The senator for Minnesota may be the opponent Donald Trump would least like to face
PubDate: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The senator for Minnesota may be the opponent Donald Trump would least like to face
- Anti-Semitism and the Democratic Party
- Abstract: Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two new members of Congress, are accused of an ancient vice
PubDate: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two new members of Congress, are accused of an ancient vice
- Arkansas puts work requirements on Medicaid
- Abstract: You’ll never guess what happened next
PubDate: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: You’ll never guess what happened next
- Another shutdown, shut down
- Abstract: The federal government will remain open, thanks to the art of the retreat
PubDate: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The federal government will remain open, thanks to the art of the retreat
- Russia, America and the INF
- Abstract: Russia’s suspicion of America is a self-fulfilling prophecy
PubDate: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Russia’s suspicion of America is a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Elizabeth Warren’s unusual brand of wonkish populism
- Abstract: If Democrats awarded prizes for detailed policy proposals, she would win
PubDate: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: If Democrats awarded prizes for detailed policy proposals, she would win
- Donald Trump is the main barrier to the revision of conservatism
- Abstract: The president offers more chaos than change
PubDate: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:53:47 +000
- Abstract: The president offers more chaos than change
- Botox bars are coming to a city near you
- Abstract: Hold still
PubDate: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:53:47 +000
- Abstract: Hold still
- America calls time on the INF treaty, ushering in a new age of missiles
- Abstract: The pact signed by Reagan and Gorbachev underpinned bilateral arms control for 30 years
PubDate: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:53:47 +000
- Abstract: The pact signed by Reagan and Gorbachev underpinned bilateral arms control for 30 years
- Philadelphia politics are stuck in the era of prog rock
- Abstract: The indictment of John Dougherty has a strangely retro feel
PubDate: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:53:47 +000
- Abstract: The indictment of John Dougherty has a strangely retro feel
- What is it with shoe polish in Virginia'
- Abstract: Scandals ensnare the state’s top three elected officials
PubDate: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Scandals ensnare the state’s top three elected officials
- The Democratic primary is already the most left-wing in decades
- Abstract: This looks like a bad strategy for beating Donald Trump
PubDate: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: This looks like a bad strategy for beating Donald Trump
- Facebook turns 15
- Abstract: How the social-networking giant has changed America
PubDate: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: How the social-networking giant has changed America
- America withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
- Abstract: The Trump administration’s latest move brings back cold-war fears
PubDate: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The Trump administration’s latest move brings back cold-war fears
- America’s government shutdown took a toll
- Abstract: Some Republicans would prefer a national emergency to a repeat performance
PubDate: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:43:23 +000
- Abstract: Some Republicans would prefer a national emergency to a repeat performance
- The Pentagon wants satellites with laser beams attached to their heads
- Abstract: Missile-interceptors in space could protect America, but at a galactic cost
PubDate: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:43:23 +000
- Abstract: Missile-interceptors in space could protect America, but at a galactic cost
- Is this man the missing link in the Mueller investigation'
- Abstract: Or is he an attention-seeking mythmaker' Or could he be both these things'
PubDate: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:43:23 +000
- Abstract: Or is he an attention-seeking mythmaker' Or could he be both these things'
- A rustbelt town adapts a TV format for politics
- Abstract: Braddock needed a mayor, so it held an audition
PubDate: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:43:23 +000
- Abstract: Braddock needed a mayor, so it held an audition
- Our coverage of the American government shutdown
- Abstract: The current impasse is now the longest in the country’s history
PubDate: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: The current impasse is now the longest in the country’s history
- Republicans and Democrats are taking early education more seriously
- Abstract: Alabama and West Virginia are among the pioneers
PubDate: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:45:59 +000
- Abstract: Alabama and West Virginia are among the pioneers
- Republicans may learn to love Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Abstract: If Democrats ever embraced socialism, America would probably stay conservative
PubDate: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:45:59 +000
- Abstract: If Democrats ever embraced socialism, America would probably stay conservative
- The arrival of Foxconn in Wisconsin divides Democrats
- Abstract: A whopping subsidy to America's biggest foreign investment splits the party along class lines
PubDate: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:45:58 +000
- Abstract: A whopping subsidy to America's biggest foreign investment splits the party along class lines
- Why bull-riding is becoming more popular
- Abstract: It is America’s most dangerous sport
PubDate: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:45:58 +000
- Abstract: It is America’s most dangerous sport
- Donald Trump made a dreadful miscalculation over the shutdown
- Abstract: He will suffer less for it than the Democrats think
PubDate: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: He will suffer less for it than the Democrats think
- The wild rise of Mick Mulvaney
- Abstract: Being Donald Trump’s chief-of-staff seems nasty, brutish and short
PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:52:32 +000
- Abstract: Being Donald Trump’s chief-of-staff seems nasty, brutish and short
- Donald Trump v Congress
- Abstract: When it comes to domestic policy, the president is less powerful than he seems
PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:52:32 +000
- Abstract: When it comes to domestic policy, the president is less powerful than he seems
- Democratic mayors and governors pitch reforms to health care
- Abstract: Their ideas range from sensible to pie-in-the-sky
PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:52:32 +000
- Abstract: Their ideas range from sensible to pie-in-the-sky
- America’s next attorney-general looks equipped for the trials ahead
- Abstract: William Barr is no sheep
PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: William Barr is no sheep
- Harvard’s policy against single-sex clubs was meant to protect women
- Abstract: It seems to be doing the opposite
PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: It seems to be doing the opposite
- America’s government shutdown is an act of economic self-harm
- Abstract: Its costs are mounting
PubDate: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: Its costs are mounting
- Swatting could become a federal crime
- Abstract: False reports leading to SWAT team deployments have doubled since 2011
PubDate: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +000
- Abstract: False reports leading to SWAT team deployments have doubled since 2011
- What group of people is most hostile to #MeToo'
- Abstract: Republican women over the age of 65
PubDate: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:51:14 +000
- Abstract: Republican women over the age of 65
- Chicago’s political system is set up to produce corruption
- Abstract: A powerful city councillor was wiretapped and followed around by the FBI for a year
PubDate: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:51:13 +000
- Abstract: A powerful city councillor was wiretapped and followed around by the FBI for a year
- Hospital prices are now public
- Abstract: That is unlikely to push them down
PubDate: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:51:13 +000
- Abstract: That is unlikely to push them down
