Donald Trump

Paul Wells: Amid the chaos, Biden turned to speak to Americans, while Trump seemed barely aware anyone was watching at home.

The first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was uncivil, uninspiring and at times difficult to follow. It was America in 2020.

Watch the first debate of the 2020 U.S. election right here at 9 p.m. ET

Harvard professor Michael Sandel argues the Western world has ’outsourced our moral judgment to markets’ and wrongly assumed that ’the money people make is the measure of their contribution to the common good’

Win or lose this fall, the Republicans are at a crossroads. Do they double down on Trumpism? Or try to put it all behind them?

Adnan R. Khan: Trump’s paranoid gang of conspiracy theorists are armed and angry, preparing for war. It’s starting to feel downright apocalyptic here—and I’ve barely mentioned the pandemic

Image of the Week: The owner of a wrecked shop refused to take part in Trump’s photo-op as the president used the riots to further inflame divisions rather than heal. Team Trump just found someone else to do the job.

Scott Gilmore: The fatal flaw in election models is that they assume a free and fair election

Just like future dystopias, horror stories are almost always tales of their times. Andrew Pyper’s forthcoming novel ’The Residence,’ explores the presence of a demon within the White House walls.

Marcus Kolga: Despite Huawei’s insistence that it will not compromise the privacy and security of Canadians, it would have no choice but to hand over Canadians’ data if the Chinese government asked it to do so