47th President of the United States

The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump proceeds on a continuous knife edge, meaning the votes of the undecided are vitally important to each candidate. Even if every Democrat voter studiously falls in line this November, Kamala’s flip-flopping could be her undoing among independents, and could therefore lose her the presidency.

Middle East Conflict

Israel has both astounded and horrified the world with a lethal attack on Hezbollah fighters, by surreptitiously planting explosives in their pagers and other electronic devices, but the scale of the destruction of their rocket-firing foe has fueled the ongoing debate on proportional response. Officials around the world openly worry that this next step could trigger a full-blown regional war.