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International Affairs, Religion
The Citizenship Battle Dividing Catholic America
Matteo Muzio 22 January 2025

One of the key points of Donald Trump’s new administration program is its commitment to abolish birthright citizenship (jus soli) on his first day as president, as he has declared repeatedly. This would involve using the executive order tool. It didn’t quite happen that way, but it came very close. The new occupant of the White House has signed an order directing federal agencies to stop accepting citizenship applications within thirty days from the children of people entering the country illegally. The text suggests an attempt to get around current laws, as it simply ignores the applications without formally abolishing the right itself.
Political Theory
Modi’s India as a Foretaste of Trump 2.0
Chandra Mallampalli 16 January 2025

January 6 marks the fourth anniversary of an unprecedented attack on the United States Capitol and American democracy. Far more than advancing “the lie” about a stolen 2020 election, the insurrectionists of January 6 presented the world with an alternative understanding of America, one arising from fears of white replacement and steeped in Christian nationalist ideas and imagery. Despite being the only twice impeached U.S. president and a convicted felon, Donald Trump not only won the last election, but also gained majorities in both the Senate and the House and made inroads into Asian, Black, and Latino American communities that typically vote Democrat. These facts should prompt us to reframe January 6 not as a shameful setback for MAGA, but as a catalyst for the movement’s onward march. To what kind of America will Trump 2.0 take us? This is where a comparative lens can be useful.
Political Theory
Traditional Politics are Not Cutting it Anymore: Voters Need Hope
Ivan Krastev 20 December 2024

As someone who is not a student of American politics, I tend to relate American political developments to experiences and places that I am more familiar with. From this perspective, I’ll try to make four simple points. For a foreigner, particularly an Eastern European, who carries a significant political history in their personal biography, one of the most striking things that began to unfold in the United States—long before these most recent elections—was the intense conversation about the “last elections.” Specifically, the question of whether these could be the “last elections” in the sense of the political system being in peril. This debate became especially prominent around 2020, when the idea was first articulated.
Political Theory
Donald Trump Has Remade US Politics Despite
(Not Because of) his Policies
Hussein Ibish 14 November 2024

When Donald Trump began his first term as US president, back in February 2017, I speculated that we might be witnessing the beginning of a grand realignment in American politics. The recent election shows that this realignment has happened, but largely despite, rather than because of, Mr Trump’s policies.
International Affairs, Society
Jeffry Frieden: Once Again, it’s the Economy, Stupid
Sofia de Benedictis 13 November 2024

One week ago, Donald Trump secured a resounding victory over opponent Kamala Harris in the 2024 US elections, primarily due to a country-wide shift to the right. Swing states like Georgia and Michigan that were previously blue, are now red, and urban areas – historically Democratic bastions – have shifted their favor considerably towards the Republican party. We asked Jeffry Frieden, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University what was motivating voters and whether this rightward shift will mean for democratic values and whether Trump will be able to live up to his lofty election promises.