ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
Across the world, a backlash to immigration is remaking politics. In election after election, voters have backed candidates who promise to do whatever is necessary to stop the flow of unauthorized arrivals and, in many cases, send millions back to their countries of origin, no matter how war-torn or desperate. Anti-immigrant politicians and activists spread …
Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign very deliberately echoed the one that Ronald Reagan ran in 1980. “Peace through strength” and “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” are the two Reagan slogans that are best remembered today. Less well known is that in 1980, Reagan used the slogan “Make America great …
Historians are skittish about predicting the future, and not only because there are too many variables and possibilities. It is also not always easy to grasp the significance of events when you are in the middle of them. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, people grasped at once that a new era had …
By all appearances, the United States is a mess. Two-thirds of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, and nearly 70 percent rate the economy as “not good” or “poor.” Public trust in government has fallen by half, from 40 percent in 2000 to just 20 percent today. Love of country is fading, …
Ever since the United States ascended to global leadership at the end of World War II, American leaders have regularly been stricken by bouts of anxiety that the country is in decline and losing ground to a rival. The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of the Sputnik satellite prompted such fears, as did Soviet expansionism in …
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, founded at Stanford University in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who went on to become the thirty-first President of the United States, is an interdisciplinary research center for advanced study on domestic and international affairs. The views expressed in its publications are entirely those of the authors and …
Trump’s support among Latino men was highest among Latinos under 40. Public policy (particularly the economy) was the driving force for Latino men, not gender bias or discrimination. The door remains open for Democrats to bring Latino men back into the tent. Latino males have been the most discussed sub-group of the electorate among many …
If Democrats are determined to fret and sweat about where they stand with working-class voters, the exit poll data would justify them worrying—not about some pro-Trump or pro-GOP multiracial working-class coalition, but about Latino voters. Trump was a landslide winner with working-class white evangelicals, but his single biggest gain in 2024 over 2020 was among …
Trump’s gains in each of the seven swing states was smaller than the national figure, although his pickup in Arizona and Nevada nearly matched his nationwide improvement. The fact that Trump did especially well in Arizona and Nevada no doubt speaks in part to his success in gaining ground among Latino voters. Trump made significant …
For a long time, both scholars and practitioners of international relations, security and defence have been searching for centres of power (poles) in the international system in order to assess if the world is unipolar, bipolar o multipolar. Polarity relates to the distribution of power within a system, the capacity to attract members to it …