In New York, former U.S. President Donald Trump is standing trial on felony charges linked to hush money payments made to an adult film actress prior to the 2016 election. The historic criminal trial, the first of its kind involving a former American president, unfolds against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential race.聽
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October 26, 2023 | Much of contemporary American politics can be traced to a little-remembered and dimly understood event that occurred a half-century ago, the Saturday Night Massacre. This article by聽David Shribman delves into the controversies over whether presidents are vulnerable to prosecution.
January 4, 2022 | In a special to聽The Globe and Mail, David Shribman聽discusses the furious debates Americans are having as the one-year anniversary of the聽siege at the Capitol arrives.
"The battle of Capitol Hill is being fought again, this time in public discourse 鈥� and Americans, perhaps even more divided today than they were on Jan. 6, 2021, are approaching this anniversary of anguish with apprehension."
Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, November 7, positioning himself to be a leader who "seeks not to divide but to unify" a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil. Biden crossed the threshold of 270 electoral college votes with a win in his home state of Pennsylvania. ()
The Iowa Democratic Party says it will release some results of Monday night鈥檚 caucuses Tuesday afternoon, blaming inconsistencies in reporting for the delay. Many of the candidates have already聽moved on to New Hampshire, which holds its primaries in a week. ()
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Republicans鈥攁nd some liberals鈥攄ownplay the significance of the president鈥檚 outbursts. But his words are quietly radicalizing both the left and right, with untold consequences for the future of policy. [...] But Trump鈥檚 words are his substance. 鈥淧olitics is persuasion as well as coercion,鈥� the political scientist Jacob Levy wrote last week, rightly arguing that Trump has 鈥渃hanged what being a Republican means.鈥�
Jacob T. Levy, a political theorist at 香蕉视频, convincingly made the case for the real-world impact of Trump鈥檚 words in a recent essay for the Niskanen Center.聽
Jacob Levy offers a deeply thoughtful meditation on Trump鈥檚 use of language 鈥� on the power it has exerted over Republican voters and the GOP Congress, and on the folly of imagining that his words alone won鈥檛 do serious damage to American political life, as long as he is constrained from acting.
