A larger reckoning lies behind US midterms
Voters in the US midterm elections to 35 of 100 Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and for governors in 35 states will likely have local and domestic issues on their minds. There is the mounting cost of living crisis, growing threat to jobs from new technologies, deepening polarisation and division on matters of immigration and culture. But the outcome of these elections will also resonate beyond the US: It will indicate the room for manoeuvre that the White House will have in its foreign policy vis-à-vis the wars in West Asia and Eastern Europe, and more........
