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Joe biden was talking about the United States when he warned, on September 1st, that “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win or they were cheated.” He might as well have been talking about Brazil.

As with so much else with the former president, there is not one easy answer as to why he refused and ignited a legal firestorm. But here are some possibilities. Follow live coverage of the release of the affidavit in the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

The Supreme Court divided 5–4 in a clash over religious liberty and LGBTQ equality on Wednesday, forcing Yeshiva University to stop discriminating against a gay rights group on campus. But the majority’s order had little to do with this culture-war skirmish.

Donald Trump’s legal perils have become insurmountable and could snuff out the former US president’s hopes of an election-winning comeback, according to political analysts and legal experts.

TO UNDERSTAND THE future of America, don’t head to Washington, DC. Instead, talk to the governors of its most conservative state, Mississippi, and its most progressive one, California. Bespectacled and calmly confident, Mississippi’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, is on a high.

The former president finds himself without the power of the presidency, staring at a host of prosecutors and lawyers who have him and his associates in their sights. WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J.

Legal analysts lit up social media on Monday in response to the broad and potentially devastating order by Judge Aileen M.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton warned that Donald Trump was a fool who could be baited with a tweet.

New polling shows the appeal — and limits — of a Christian nationalist message. Stella Rouse is professor of government and politics and associate director of the University of Maryland’s Critical Issues Poll.

Mr. Harris is a video journalist. Ms. Cottle is a member of the editorial board. For the past two years, Americans have been overwhelmed by a deluge of headlines suggesting democracy in the United States is under threat: Voter suppression. A shortage of drop boxes.

There’s a major detail missing from many conversations about the rising number of migrants coming to the US-Mexico border.

Defrauding migrants and misappropriating state funds. The Ron DeSantis approach to governance is to feed a steady flow of chum to conservative media.

Vladimir Putin is determined to shape the future to look like his version of the past. Russia’s president invaded Ukraine not because he felt threatened by NATO expansion or by Western “provocations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia meeting in Uzbekistan this month.Credit...