


Are America’s leading presidential candidates up to it?
Americans are worryingly unconfident in the sanity of the two men
“I really hate doing this, but I cannot not do it,” announced the conservative host Hugh Hewitt on his online show. This was a preface to a montage of video clips showing “President Biden’s obvious and increasing infirmity”.
One, from a star-studded fund-raiser held in Los Angeles on June 15th, shows Mr Biden staring blankly at the audience before Barack Obama, the night’s other headline act, grasps his arm and leads him offstage. The second, taken a few days earlier at the G7 summit in Italy, appears to show Mr Biden wandering away from other world leaders as they watch a skydiving demonstration. In conservative corners of the media and the internet, such clips of Biden freezes abound. Another recent entry shows the president staring blankly at a White House concert celebrating the new federal holiday of Juneteenth on June 19th, which marks the end of slavery.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Freezing time”

America is educating a nation of investors
Encouraged by research, more states are requiring schools to teach personal finance

Lauren Boebert’s primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
Republican primary voters’ favourite thing is anything that horrifies Democrats

Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
They were “warriors”—that’s the problem

America is educating a nation of investors
Encouraged by research, more states are requiring schools to teach personal finance

Lauren Boebert’s primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
Republican primary voters’ favourite thing is anything that horrifies Democrats

Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
They were “warriors”—that’s the problem
New research exposes the role of women in America’s slave trade
In the bondage of others they saw their freedom
Legal immigration to America has rebounded
Is anyone paying attention?
Republicans are favoured to win the Senate. What would they do?
Congressional Republicans are already considering the art of the possible