Yesterday
Pelosi welcomes Harris home as West Coast donors raise $18m
The former House speaker appeared with the Democratic presidential nominee in San Francisco at an event the Harris campaign said raised more than $18 million.
- Jeff Mason
Investors hit pause on Biden’s manufacturing renaissance
Companies said deteriorating market conditions, slowing demand, and lack of policy certainty in a high-stakes election year have caused them to change their plans.
- Amanda Chu, Alexandra White and Rhea Basarkar
This Month
Harris courts Latino vote with tax pledge, leads Trump in key states
In a dramatic turn for the Democrats, the vice president is ahead of the Republican candidate by 4 percentage points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
- Darlene Superville and Josh Boak
Trump’s campaign says its emails were hacked
The former president’s team accused Iran of stealing sensitive internal documents, a day after Microsoft warned of foreign interference in the US election.
- Bill Barrow
- Opinion
- Kamala Harris
The big risk in Kamala Harris’ surprise choice for VP
Tim Walz’s down-to-earth language was transformed into the equivalent of a political magic wand, but there’s a risk in overlooking Josh Shapiro in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Immigration
Populist surge makes it essential to spread gains of migration
Conflict over migration is now breaking out into the open in Western nations. But excessive limits would have a high cost too.
- Tanveer Ahmed
- Opinion
- US election
What does China make of America’s topsy-turvy election?
Beijing will have trouble working out whether a hard or soft approach to a new US administration will work best.
- Ian Bremmer
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
The Fed will not let markets dictate a rate cut
The US central bank reacts to the sharemarket only when volatility threatens financial stability. For the moment, there is no evidence that this is the case.
- Barry Eichengreen
- Opinion
- Interest rates
Markets mayhem jangles investor nerves
Why are markets are suddenly tumbling as sentiment turns down – and is this the start of something bigger?
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Global economy
Shouldn’t the world thank China for producing too much stuff?
If trade policy were about consumers, the US and EU would thank China for its cheap EVs, batteries and solar panels and its contribution to lowering carbon emissions.
- Gary Hufbauer
- Opinion
- US election
Beware the march of the childless voter
The number of non-reproducers is already large and it’s rising, and unfortunately for J.D. Vance, these people may not have kids, but they do have votes.
- Pilita Clark
‘You don’t embarrass the New Yorker in Trump’ says military adviser
Chris Miller, a former acting secretary of defence and Project 2025 contributor, says the AUKUS military alliance will be fine if Donald Trump wins the election, but Vladimir Putin could be in a jam.
- Kevin Chinnery
July
Inflation picks up; 600 Rex jobs at risk; Navy’s ‘criminal price tag’
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The real danger that Trump would pose for Ukraine
Agreeing to Russia’s demand for a neutral Ukraine, as a new Republican presidency might, could leave the country at the mercy of Vladimir Putin’s long-term ambitions.
- Gideon Rachman
Why industry policies are no longer a ‘hidden’ trade war
The Productivity Commission’s deputy chairman has added to warnings that the federal government’s signature Made in Australia policy could fuel protectionism.
- James Hall
Democrats feared Georgia was a lost cause. Not any more
Kamala Harris’s appeal with young people, working-age women and non-white voters has scrambled the dynamics in Georgia and other demographically similar states.
- Will Weissert and Bill Barrow
Israel hits Hezbollah for Golan carnage, but eyes Gaza truce talks
PM Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to exact a ‘heavy price’ from Hezbollah, which has been trading fire with Israel across the Lebanese border in solidarity with Hamas.
- Updated
- Dan Williams
- Analysis
- US election
Kamalanomics: Harris’ economic vision for America’s middle class
The Democratic campaign will challenge Donald Trump’s claims to represent working people and secure Joe Biden’s legacy.
- Updated
- Colby Smith and James Politi
Harris raises more cash in a week than Trump, Biden in a month
Michael Tyler, the Harris campaign’s communications director, called the $305 million raised a “record-shattering haul”.
- James Politi
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Harris v Trump presents starkly different Americas
The exit of Joe Biden and the entry of Kamala Harris means real campaigns and robustly articulated choices.
- The AFR View
