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The Economist
The Economist
23 Mar 2025


NextImg:Could an “October surprise” upset America’s election?
United States | Campaign calculus: expecting the unexpected

Could an “October surprise” upset America’s election?

What last-minute developments might portend for the race

IN OCTOBER OF a presidential-election year, observers of American politics give the expression “expect the unexpected” new meaning. With a month to go, and early voting under way, nerves begin to fray. Poll-watchers and pundits brace for the story that will upend the contest. Excitement about an “October surprise” mounts. And yet the phenomenon is usually a damp squib.

President Trump signs an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Department Of Education.

MAGA is already rewiring American education

The Department of Education is being dismantled; universities are being brought to heel

Donald Trump is testing more than America’s constitution

The country’s very idea of itself is under stress

Cambridge yimbies

The home of Harvard and MIT embraces yimby-ism