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 latest Yahoo News/YouGov results illustrate the powerful effect that partisanship can have on people’s perception of reality.
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 dust has settled on the 2024 presidential election and we now know that Donald Trump will once again be President of the United States. Trump has promised many things for his second term in office: deregulation,
In analyzing the loss, Harris’s team also credits the Trump campaign with reaching sporadic voters, especially young men, through new media channels.
Donald Trump’s trade plan for 2025 would hit China and Mexico hard as well as cause global damage. But he will struggle to implement it in full
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
Analysts say policy mistakes the Biden administration committed on the economy contributed to Donald Trump regaining the White House.
"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.
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.
Nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants are the backbone of some industries, and they pay billions in taxes for services they never receive.