NEITHER Ted Cruz nor Marco Rubio fared as well in the hills of New Hampshire on February 9th as they did in the plains of Iowa a week earlier. Even so, the two Republicans (pictured) are both closer to winning the White House than any Cuban-American has come before. You... Leer más
El deshielo entre Estados Unidos y Cuba estaba ausente en la campaña para las presidenciales de 2016. Ya no. La Casa Blanca anunciará este jueves que el presidente Barack Obama viajará a la isla caribeña en las próximas semanas. La decisión obliga a tomar posición a los candidatos. Entre los primeros aspirantes a la nominación republicana... Leer más
Timing is everything in politics. And South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s decision to endorse Marco Rubio just days before her state’s Republican presidential primary comes at just the right time for the senator from Florida, giving him a boost not only in the state but in the broader race for... Leer más
Sanders and Clinton clash over whether Henry Kissinger should be giving foreign policy advice to US presidential candidates. At the Democratic debate on February 11, presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a spirited exchange about an unlikely topic: the 92-year-old former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Sanders... Leer más
How can we interpret the incredible success of the “socialist” candidate Bernie Sanders in the US primaries? The Vermont senator is now ahead of Hillary Clinton among Democratic-leaning voters below the age of 50, and it’s only thanks to the older generation that Clinton has managed to stay ahead in... Leer más
Hace cinco meses anunciábamos que las primarias en Estados Unidos enfrentarían a candidatos centristas y populistas (un término que, en EE UU, carece de las connotaciones negativas que tiene en Europa). Este choque se veía venir, pero pocos anticipaban su magnitud. A escasos días de que comience la tercera ronda... Leer más
Editor’s Note: Justice Antonin Scalia played a powerful role in shaping American jurisprudence since the early 1980s, first as a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and then as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He spent much of his career devoted... Leer más
For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. The Southern Education Foundation reports that 51 percent of students in pre-kindergarten through... Leer más
The U.S. electorate this year will be the country’s most racially and ethnically diverse ever. Nearly one-in-three eligible voters on Election Day (31%) will be Hispanic, black, Asian or another racial or ethnic minority, up from 29% in 2012. Much of this change is due tostrong growth among Hispanic eligible... Leer más
At a town hall today in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Donald Trump floated the idea — without explicitly threatening to do so — that he may run as an independent candidate. Trump attacked the Republican National Committee, saying it «better get its act together» and it «does a terrible job.»... Leer más
