Gerard Baker

Race is too close to call but rifts and recriminations suggest the vice-president may be falling short in swing states

Two highly credible former aides have raised the rhetorical stakes about the dangers of re-electing the Republican

The Republican’s success across diverse demographics — from Latino and black voters to disillusioned Democrats — should force his critics to rethink their worst assumptions

‘I think we can do much, much better,’ said the top New York Times editor then. They didn’t.

Trump's re-election has exposed aesthetic and substantive divisions within the alliance.

Obama and Biden tried to make the US more like Europe but the 47th president is a throwback to national exceptionalism

Contrasting reactions to deaths of health CEO and aggressive homeless man lay bare the distortion of public discourse

Biden’s presidency ending in failure is the climax of a career in which his defining objective was simply to be, not to do

Collapse of trust in legacy papers and TV networks has been brought about not by tech villains but by outlets themselves

While some claims may be overblown, the truth is California’s governor has prioritised green policies over human safety