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Washington

Biden prepares to speak at The Queen theater on Nov. 05, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

President Biden and a world of trouble

Paul Wells: The crises are stacked up outside the Oval Office. Biden’s advantage will be knowing that nothing will be given to him simply because he’s a fresh face.
People walk past the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York on Nov. 4, 2020 (Justin Lane/EPA/CP)

Joe Biden and the lure of gridlock

Paul Wells: Wednesday’s market rallies amount to a bet that a Democrat president and a Republican Senate will guarantee nothing changes in America
A live broadcast of Donald Trump speaking from the White House is shown on screens at an election-night party in Las Vegas. (John Locher/AP)

Welcome to the new America

Trump’s greatest achievement has been to dismantle reality as we know it, replacing it with a universe where sense is dismissed as nonsense