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A video collecting some of my reporting from throughout the night:

This is some of my reporting from the European Forum Alpbach in Austria. A magazine PDF for download is accessible below. Magazine PDF: Scope magazine – September 2017

October 2020: For Swedish public broadcaster SVT, I interviewed four young political leaders and a political science professor in North Carolina to get their views on whether America is moving in an authoritarian direction. The first version is a shorter video with three of the interviewees included. A version with all five can be seenContinue reading “Young Americans React – Is the U.S. becoming a dictatorship?”

What was supposed to be the third debate, but ended up being the second and last, was substantial in comparison to the first, although that was a low bar to clear. The mic of the opposing candidate was muted during the initial response to each question. Trump listened to his advisors telling him to letContinue reading “Biden empathizes, Trump scares: Debate 2 roundup”

American history is full of examples from when the two major parties were completely unrecognizable from their present-day selves. Compared to European political parties, the US political landscape has moved significantly over the years. Parties have switched names, places, ideas, people, and voters. In the UK, Labour has always been to the left and theContinue reading “The American political compass — from the middle to the right”

Chronicling Mitt Romney’s political journey during the last decade is chronicling the Republican Party’s journey into Trumpism. After the loss in 2012, the party looked inward and came to the conclusion that the party was becoming too white to win. Then Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a rare major minority player in the pre-Trump GOP, saidContinue reading “Mitt Romney — from presidential candidate to outcast”

This debate won’t change much, but the lasting impression was two candidates avoiding questions and Pence repeatedly plowing on over his allotted time. Pence delivers the conservative message, which is very similar to Trump’s, but the way he puts it forward is wholly different. Pence, like Trump, was putting forward misleading and blatantly false claims,Continue reading “Pence plows on in the first and only VP debate with Harris”

Just like Biden, who was ahead in the polls the entire primary but struggled to look like a winner, Kamala Harris was number one in the veepstakes practically since Biden’s nomination seemed clear, but she also struggled to look like the clear choice, until it turned out that the person everybody thought was gonna getContinue reading “What Biden gets in Kamala Harris as a running mate”

When Mitch McConnell was choosing whether or not to push through a Supreme Court nominee before the election, he was weighing his short-term and long-term priorities. Short term: Hold on to the Senate in November. Long term: Get another lifetime conservative appointment to the Supreme Court. Polling says that most Americans think that the next President shouldContinue reading “The choice McConnell made by deciding to push through Amy Coney Barrett”