Is the US Dollar Losing Its Clout as the World’s Reserve Currency?

Average voters do not primarily cast ballots for abstract strategic outcomes or distant conflicts; they vote to keep the lights on and the rent paid.

Party identity is never a shield, and populist rhetoric, however strong its power to mobilize, does not last if promises go unfulfilled.

Last Tuesday, ordinary people ... turned out en masse at the polls to claim their place in the world.

There was a massive disconnect between what Trump was telling Americans on their television screens and what they were experiencing in their everyday lives.