us politics

Trump gets a lot of bad press especially outside the US and in particular for his manners, confrontational attitude and shocking comments. I have also heavily criticised him for his support of the fossil fuel industries and his dismissive attitude about global warming. But regarding the support...

Donald Trump has announced that he intended to impose tariffs of 10% or 20% on all imports to the US. I have asked ChatGPT to compute a ranking of of European countries by the highest proportion of their GDP tied to exports to the United States. Ireland: 22.86% of GDP Hungary: 12.21% of GDP...

This is not a joke and I'm not delusional. I'm also not contesting that Donald Trump has won the US election. But he's only going to become president in two and a half months. In the meantime Kamala Harris could still be president if Joe Biden steps down. She is in a very unique position as a...

With the looming US presidential election, I thought it would be interesting to post about an important trend in US politics, namely that religiously active people are considerably more likely to vote than the the inactive and unaffiliated. This trend was identified by Pew Research in 2019. In...