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President of the United States Joe Biden is speaking at a campaign rally while the Kennedy family announces their endorsement of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, on April 18, 2024. Kerry Kennedy is saying, ''The best way forward for America is to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to four more years,'' as the audience erupts into chants of 'four more years.' President Biden is stating that it is 'an incredible honor to have the support of the Kennedy family.'

Campaigns & Elections President Biden trails former President Trump. Can he come back?

William A. Galston

May 1, 2024

Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021.

Courts & Law The Alitos’ flag flying and the limits of regulating the Supreme Court

Russell Wheeler

June 20, 2024

FILE PHOTO: Marine Le Pen, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party parliamentary group, and Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party and head of the RN list for the European elections, attend a political rally during the party's campaign for the EU elections, in Paris, France, June 2, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

Foreign Politics & Elections Did the EU voting provide any clues for the coming U.S. election?

E.J. Dionne, Jr., William A. Galston

June 18, 2024

Troops from the U.S. 31st Fighter Wing based at Aviano Air Base in Italy raise their flag during the opening ceremony of bilateral one-week training exercises with Romanian pilots "Dacian Viper 2014" at a military airfield in Campia Turzii in Transylvania, northwest from Romania's northern border with Ukraine, April 10, 2014. U.S and Romanian pilots of fighter jets began one-week military exercises in Romania as scheduled in operations planned before the Russian annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, officials said on Thursday.

U.S. Defense Policy ‘Privatization’ of non-inherently governmental functions: Why public-private partnerships are so effective—and so rare—in the federal government

Dorothy Robyn

June 13, 2024

FILE PHOTO: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in their second 2020 presidential campaign debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/Pool/File Photo

U.S. Democracy The demise of the Commission on Presidential Debates

Norman J. Ornstein

June 12, 2024

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