us politics

A new study found that young Americans tend to reject potential partners from opposing political parties much more strongly than they prefer those who share their own political views. I recently posted a map of political polarisation and it won't surprise anyone to see that US society is...

Many people today wonder what is happening in the United States, how a wave of intolerance, resentment, and national self-assertion seems to have taken hold of both politics and public life. I often hear the phrase: “this is not the America I used to know.” But perhaps that assumption, that...

When I saw this, I thought it was a joke at first. How could this be possible in a democracy? But it's true, although with some caveat. The U.S. Department of State is finalizing a plan to issue a limited‑run, commemorative U.S. passport design that includes President Donald Trump’s portrait...

Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk and other cronies have long been described as fascists or neo-nazis. Many people refused to believe that the US could become a dictatorship, but this is what is happening right now. The paramilitary ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is quickly turning into a...

Trump gets a lot of bad press especially outside the US and in particular for his manners, confrontational attitude and shocking comments. I have also heavily criticised him for his support of the fossil fuel industries and his dismissive attitude about global warming. But regarding the support...

Donald Trump has announced that he intended to impose tariffs of 10% or 20% on all imports to the US. I have asked ChatGPT to compute a ranking of of European countries by the highest proportion of their GDP tied to exports to the United States. Ireland: 22.86% of GDP Hungary: 12.21% of GDP...

This is not a joke and I'm not delusional. I'm also not contesting that Donald Trump has won the US election. But he's only going to become president in two and a half months. In the meantime Kamala Harris could still be president if Joe Biden steps down. She is in a very unique position as a...

With the looming US presidential election, I thought it would be interesting to post about an important trend in US politics, namely that religiously active people are considerably more likely to vote than the the inactive and unaffiliated. This trend was identified by Pew Research in 2019. In...