France’s far-right National Front party keeps gaining ground. Its leader wants to be president. There’s a chance I’ll face a distasteful choice in 2017. In 2002, I was too young to vote or understand what was happening in French politics when...
By Bernd Debusmann Take note of a new phrase in the U.S. political lexicon: the Trump Phenomenon. It was coined by pundits who are perplexed by the enduring popularity of Donald Trump, the New York billionaire who wants to become U.S. president, among a segment of the...
By Randall Mikkelsen The attacks in Paris have jolted candidates for the U.S. presidency into advocating tougher action against the Islamic State without committing large numbers of U.S. troops, with leading Republicans favoring curbs on Syrian refugees. Until this...
Our correspondents look at a U.S. presidential campaign that has global implications but has many scratching their heads — and checking their tweets. We asked four News-Decoder correspondents with decades of experience following U.S. politics for their thoughts...