The transformation of JD Vance
Donald Trump’s running mate has brought the new right to the brink of power.
By
Katie Stallard
Katie Stallard is senior editor, China and global affairs, of the New Statesman. She is the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, and a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.
Latest articles
Features on
All Articles
The Democrats’ post-Biden gamble
The president has dropped out of the race. Can Democrats unite around a new candidate?
By
Trump reminds the world that he is beatable
The former President's convention speech was rambling, long and weird
By
America on the brink
How the attempt on Trump’s life will deepen the country’s bitter divides.
By
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump
Has he just won the election?
By
Biden isn’t going to go quietly
The US president’s news conference won’t silence his critics, but it wasn’t bad enough to force him from the…
By
Why foreign affairs will define the Starmer era
At the Nato summit, the threat posed by China, Russia and Trump will be impossible to ignore.
By
Vladimir Putin’s enablers are complicit in this war
An attack on a Kyiv children's hospital will galvanise Nato leaders. But Russia is not fighting this war alone.
By
Biden’s only choice
He can stand aside and show the strength of American democracy – or embody its decline.
By