Checks and Balance newsletter: Readers’ hopes and fears for a Trump presidency

Our columnist considers views from Trump and Harris supporters alike

Nov 16th 2024

This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America.

Another Chinese app is not the alternative some young Americans think it is

In some ways, his administration will look less like an interregnum than like MAGA-lite

Expect more sickness and disrupted schooling

America’s Supreme Court weighs a Texan law aimed at protecting kids

A controversial trip to Syria in 2017 produced a possible sighting of Austin Tice, an imprisoned journalist

Republicans expect a Trumponomics boom, Democrats dread a bust