President Biden’s public pronouncements have, up to this point, been defined by repeated exaltations of America writ large. “We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we have acted together,” he intoned with Churchill-esque insistence at his inauguration. “Everybody has been so down the last number of years...

Right-wing protest action is often built on ginned-up outrage that has little connection to people’s everyday reality; it takes large infusions of funds from right-wing megadonors to whip up people’s emotions and mobilize them to protest. The events of January 6th have shown definitively that having a laissez-faire attitude to...

Il potere di WhatsApp è stato effettivamente riscontrato nelle elezioni presidenziali del 2018 in Brasile, dove Jair Bolsonaro lo ha usato come canale efficace per la comunicazione politica durante la sua campagna di successo, ma Biden non ha potuto trarne vantaggio perché gli americani non sono eccezionali su WhatsApp. "Le...

WhatsApp’s power has indeed been documented in the 2018 Presidential election in Brazil, where Jair Bolsonaro found it an effective conduit for political communication during his successful campaign, but Biden couldn’t benefit from that because Americans aren’t big on WhatsApp. “Political campaigns need a narrative: there’s a hero and a...

Il giorno delle elezioni americane, quest’anno, non è più considerato "Election Day", ma piuttosto solo l'ultimo giorno per farlo. Negli ultimi due mesi, più di novanta milioni di Americani hanno già votato in anticipo o per posta, un nuovo record. In parte è grazie a varie estensioni al periodo di...

President Trump has consistently cast doubt on the election process, making spurious claims of voter fraud and refusing to state that he would accept the election results with no equivocations. Never before has an incumbent president threatened the democratic process in this way, and it begs the question as to...

Leggi in italiano With less than a week until election day and over 80 million ballots already cast across the country, Donald Trump and Joe Biden set their sights back on Florida last Thursday. Both candidates have been to the state numerous times in recent weeks, but their rallies in...

A meno di una settimana dalle elezioni e con oltre 80 millioni di voti già inseriti, Joe Biden e Donald Trump tornano in Florida per dei raduni paralleli. Entrambi i candidati hanno visitato spesso questo stato conteso, però giovedì è la prima volta che i loro eventi sono tenuti nella...

Leggi in italiano I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in the Miami area talking to voters about their opinions at a variety of polling places, from Miami Beach to Hialeah to West Palm Beach. I’ve met a good mix of voters for and against the president, some enthusiastic about...

Da alcune settimane mi trovo a Miami per raccogliere le opinioni degli elettori alle urne, in diverse località, da Miami Beach a Hialeah a West Palm Beach. Ho avuto modo di intervistare un gruppo misto di cittadini pro e contro il presidente, alcuni entusiasti, altri un po’ meno, ma il...