It wasn’t enough, and the electorate swung from the left back to the right, in Trump’s direction. He won the narrowest popular-vote victory in the past two decades. This narrative about the election is not hard to defend in part because the evidence for the role of inflation in particular is so robust.

The economy sped up in November and kept the U.S. on track for another strong quarter of growth, fueled by optimism about falling interest rates and the prospect of a pro-business Trump administration,

The latest Yahoo News/YouGov results illustrate the powerful effect that partisanship can have on people’s perception of reality.

Every four years, we elect a new president to lead our nation. Also referred to as "the leader of the free world," this person is often judged and associated with how the economy is doing when

In analyzing the loss, Harris’s team also credits the Trump campaign with reaching sporadic voters, especially young men, through new media channels.

"The U.S economy is the envy of the world," said Rutgers Business School finance professor Parul Jain. "Why didn’t that message get through to the electorate?” “There’s always a big lag between objective economic indicators and public opinion ...

President-elect Donald Trump won Pennsylvania after losing the state in 2020. Scott Pelley visited to find out what was behind the shift this election.

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Nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants are the backbone of some industries, and they pay billions in taxes for services they never receive.

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While the incoming administration may not know exactly how to fix healthcare, the opportunity for substantive, system-wide change may be in front of us.

Howard W. French is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a longtime foreign correspondent. His latest book is Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. X: @hofrench