Varghese K. George

A contest to frame the contest: Harris wants it to be on abortion; Trump wants it to be on immigration

With exactly 30 days to go before Election Day in the United States, the two principal contestants f...

J.D. Vance: Trump’s heir apparent

Millions have lived the life of precarity that J.D. Vance was born into in 1984 but rarely has the s...

Vance weaves the personal into ‘America First’ politics 

J.D. Vance, the Republican candidate for U.S. Vice President, wove the story of his childhood strugg...

Republicans find god’s plans in Trump’s escape 

Analysis Leaders, including many former critics and challengers, rallied behind Donald Trump on the ...

J.D. Vance, following in Trump’s footsteps

J.D. Vance appeared on the scene of American public life with his 2016 best-seller memoir, Hillbilly...

Trump assassination bid derails Biden’s counter-polarisation strategy

As he survived an assassination attempt by a whisker in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, Republican...