The US Election

Michael J. Boskin examines the three factors that will determine the new administration's room for maneuver.

Jorge G. Castañeda criticizes US President-elect Joe Biden's pursuit of the status quo ante – and offers an alternate approach.

Yasheng Huang thinks psychology, rather than demographics, provides the key to contemporary US electoral politics.

Eric Posner argues that the past four years of norm-breaking have strengthened, not weakened, democratic institutions.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. thinks the president-elect must allay US allies' fears that another Donald Trump could emerge in 2024 or 2028.

Ricardo Hausmann & José Ramon Morales-Arilla explain the Democratic Party's disastrous 2020 election performance in the city, and how it can recover there.

Chris Patten argues that GOP leaders and their media enablers are subverting the cause of liberal democracy everywhere.

Katharina Pistor argues that Republican efforts to discredit the US election must not be dismissed as mere partisan cynicism.