The aggregate polls tell us that Hillary Clinton is likely to decisively beat Donald Trump on Nov. 8 and become the United States’ next president. What they—and almost all analysts—fail to prescribe is how she will govern after a quarter-century of obstructionist partisan rancor and the ugliest national election in modern American history.
In another sign of the Volkswagen Group’s effort to recover from its dieselgate scandal, its Audi brand has canceled participation in world endurance car racing, including Le Mans, which it has dominated for a decade and a half. Instead, the German carmaker will concentrate on racing electric cars.
One of the main factors holding back the electric car industry is the lack of fast-charging stations–there aren’t enough of them and those that exist take too long or aren’t conveniently located.
We are finally less than three weeks from the presidential election, and the outcome seems clear apart from the actual voting–most polls show Hillary Clinton beating Republican Donald Trump in a landslide on Nov. 8.
For two years, the main caricature of Donald Trump has been his favored description of his scale of success past and future—y-u-g-e. But, facing arguably the hugest single moment of his four and a half hours on the debate stage with Hillary Clinton, a moment set up for him to look big in stature in an election filled with low blows, he fell vastly short.
In a stinging dig at Republican Donald Trump in their debate tonight, Hillary Clinton offered her own explanation why it seems to some that he is supported by Russian president Vladimir Putin in the presidential election: “Because [Putin] would like to have a puppet” as the American president, Clinton said.
After their hellishly long campaign, and with three weeks to go until Election Day, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump will face off for their third and final debate tonight in Las Vegas. We offer up two questions we hope will be asked by Fox’s Chris Wallace, the debate moderator Both center on Trump’s persistent but unsubstantiated allegation—when polls are going against him, that is—that the election is rigged in Clinton’s favor.
After three months of accusations that Russia is seeking to influence the US presidential election with a cyber-hacking campaign, the US is planning to strike back and send “a message” to Moscow with “the greatest impact.”
Based on persistently terrible polls, Republicans are sweating a nightmare scenario in which not only does Donald Trump get steamrolled by Hillary Clinton, but his foul mouth sinks the Senate and House too, sending them into Democratic hands.
For months, Donald Trump has alleged that the presidential election will be rigged against him. In a speech on Oct. 10, a day after his latest debate with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Trump repeated the phrase three times: “We don’t want this election stolen from us.”
Donald Trump is making explicit what many have had trouble believing for a long time–on his way to apparent defeat in the Nov. 8 presidential election, he is prepared to bust up the furniture, break the windows, and finally burn down the GOP’s Big Tent. And, if some leading Republicans are consumed in the fire, so be it.
The precipice rule, one of Quartz’s 14 rules of geopolitics, states that people may walk right up to the edge of ruination, but rarely force the issue and go over the cliff. That’s why we projected back in January that Donald Trump would win the Republican party’s nomination for US president but ultimately lose the general election to Democrat Hillary Clinton in a landslide.
Donald Trump went into tonight’s debate bleeding support from within the Republican party, and free-falling in the polls. In order to stanch the wounds, he needed to knock out Hillary Clinton, figuratively speaking. But at best he fought Clinton to a tie, and in the process offered American voters another glimpse of his tendency to become unhinged.
The entire calculus of the strange US presidential election has shifted. At once, the election’s wild-card candidate, Republican Donald Trump, seems thrown back on his heels, and is struggling to hold together his hitherto surprisingly potent campaign.
Leading Republicans began to pull away from Donald Trump in the hours after a tape surfaced in which he uses extremely graphic language to describe how a man in his position can have his way with women when he wants. After having easily fended off numerous scrapes with public sensibility, this time his candidacy seems under challenge.
A deepening breach has opened between the US and Russia, with the Obama administration now explicitly accusing Moscow of using cyber warfare to influence the US presidential election.
The bar is very different for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton when they meet for their second debate of the US presidential election on Oct. 9. For Trump, it’s make or break. For Clinton, not so much.
The cream of the world’s battery-research community have been gathered in Honolulu this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the commercial lithium-ion battery, the little invention that has enabled smart phones, laptops, and the entire consumer-electronics revolution.
Lloyd Bentsen may own the best single line ever uttered in a US vice presidential debate, and Sarah Palin may have added style and zip when it was her year. But for pure pugilistic excitement, neither matches the Oct. 4 debate between Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine.
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has exchanged lavish and affectionate praise with Vladimir Putin. But the Russian president cannot be happy with Trump’s Republican running mate, Mike Pence.
In May, a Florida man named Joshua Brown engaged the autopilot function on his Tesla S, and relaxed to watch a Harry Potter film. A little while later, the car smashed into an 18-wheel semi-truck. Brown was killed.
Tonight (Oct. 1) the New York Times published three pages of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s 1995 tax returns, an exclusive that could shed light on one of the biggest issues that has dogged the businessman’s campaign. The news organization also published a statement from Trump’s campaign calling the scoop “illegally obtained” and said a lawyer for Trump is threatening legal action.
Around June 2014, Saudi Arabia launched a silent and perhaps unprecedented type of war. Flooding the global market with crude oil, the Saudis pitted their enviable geology–subterranean reservoirs that produce some of the world’s cheapest oil–against arriviste American shale drillers who had burst presumptuously onto the market with a deluge of their own product. The war of geology sent oil prices into a plunge, where they have been ever since.
In a surprising decision, OPEC got past its sometimes-bitter internal rivalries and agreed to cut oil production for the first time in eight years. The move, decided among OPEC ministers in Algiers, Algeria, was driven by an enormous fiscal threat that has reached an existential scale to some, such Venezuela and Nigeria.
