There are nine reasons Trump may still win, but none seems likely.

Fires, blackouts, high taxes, poverty, scarce housing, urban squalor, lousy schools — it’s a wonder anybody stays.

Detractors have been equating the U.S. with 1920s Germany for 85 years, and they are still wrong.

Notwithstanding his pledges of uplift and healing, history suggests post-pandemic peace is rare, and Democratic wars are not.

The U.S. won the Cold War by exporting its values, and China has a similar plan for Cold War II.

Federalizing debt was what united the states, but don't expect the same effect from a European Recovery Fund.

To know what the Chinese are really up to, read the futuristic novels of Liu Cixin.

The U.S. isn’t following the example of countries that have shown what a “smart reopening” entails.

Social unrest helped doom Lyndon Johnson's presidency. It may end up saving Trump's.