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This past Friday Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, creating an open seat on the nation’s highest court six weeks before the presidential election

The identity of the next US president is yet to be determined, but the foreign policy views of the American public are already clear. In principle, Americans support US engagement in the world but, in practice, they worry other countries take advantage of the United States.

180,000 Americans have died from coronavirus – but the president proclaimed his successful record and attacked Biden as a threat to the US.

Because caucuses and primaries occur long before the actual convention and signal who the next presidential candidate will be, conventions have morphed into largely symbolic gatherings to showcase a unified party approach and the commitments and values of the nominee.

Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate will have a lasting impact on how Americans think about the presidential ticket, and confirms the violent killing of George Floyd unleashed a demand for racial equality that continues to have dramatic impact.

With less than four months remaining until the presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a substantial lead over President Trump in the polls. Professor Peter Trubowitz writes that the COVID-19 pandemic means that there will be far more absentee ballots, and that we should not discount the likelihood of President Trump using this difference to claim that the final result is a fraud if he does not win.

Amy Walter and Adam Boulton discuss the current state of the nation and what this means for the US presidential election.

The brutal killing of George Floyd in one of America’s most progressive cities has catapulted race politics to the top of the national agenda.