Keith Peterson
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What to watch for as the dust begins to settleNov 10, 2024 4:00 am - In the spring of 2010, I was an observer at an editorial meeting at The Guardian newspaper in London just days after Britain’s general election. Neither the Conservatives...
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A candidacy worthy of hopeOct 26, 2024 4:00 am - If you have seen the video by Bruce Springsteen expressing his views on the presidential election you will remember that at the end, he said that he has only one vote and...
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The big issue neither candidate talks much about - health careOct 12, 2024 3:00 pm - This has been an unusual election in many ways, but one in particular is that health care has largely been shunted to the side by other issues such as inflation and immig...
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Energy, climate policy and the next administrationOct 08, 2024 4:00 am - One cannot speak about climate policy and energy policy separately. They are joined at the hip. In this election, however, there is a deep division between the two candid...
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The impact of abortion on the November electionSep 28, 2024 3:00 pm - When I was the chief editorial writer for this newspaper in the 1980s, we did not want to touch the issue of abortion if we could help it. The issue was divisive and emot...
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The stark contrast in worldview of Trump, HarrisSep 21, 2024 4:56 pm - Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have two vastly different views of the world. Trump sees a world of countries trying to unfairly take advantage of the United States, or of...
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The complicated, multi-faceted challenge of immigration policySep 14, 2024 2:36 pm - When Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 with a diatribe against Mexican rapists, he struck a nerve within the American electorate. A decade later, im...
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Sep 07, 2024 3:15 pm - President Biden served 36 years as a senator from Delaware, the most corporate-friendly state in the nation. He was, by any measure, a business-friendly moderate in the D...
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The issues that could define a Trump presidencyAug 31, 2024 3:06 pm - The Economist had a curious headline this summer: “Trumpnomics would not be as bad as many fear.” The reasoning was interesting. The editors did not believe former Presid...
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Election campaign 2024 is a complicated pictureAug 24, 2024 2:37 pm - “It’s the economy, stupid!” James Carville’s iconic sign in Bill Clinton’s campaign headquarters reminded every member of the team what the key issue in the 1992 election...