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Academics will be unpacking the events of Nov. 5 for years, but journalists write the first draft of history, and Foreign Policy’s Michael Hirsh charted an opening chapter examining the reasons why Harris lost. U.S. foreign policy played an outsized role in the Harris-Trump matchup. Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon and outgoing President Joe Biden’s unstinting support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have driven many would-be Democratic voters away, as Abdelhalim Abdelrahman writes in a postcard from Michigan.
All the sound and fury of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign—at least two assassination attempts, two Democratic candidates, the cats and the dogs and the brats—ended up signifying, well, not
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