Gail Chaddock

You’re a Canadian farmer looking for a better life. You’ve decided that moving to another country is the best way to get there. Is Russia your destination? Our Moscow-based writer, also Canadian, went out to the Russian countryside to find out why one family said yes. April 03, 2025, 10:00 a.m. ET For a Canadian farm family, a move to Russia may not seem the obvious choice for a better life. “My hope is that every one of our children will become a farmer.

There will be no live audience when President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump meet head-to-head Thursday at CNN’s Atlanta studios for their first debate of the 2024 campaign season. The microphone of the candidate not meant to be speaking will reportedly be muted. The event will be history-making: It was not organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has managed debates since the 1988 presidential election.

Election denialism remains a hot story. That’s more because of a fraud narrative that’s been stoked than because of anything that evidence shows – or that voters (or many politicians) actually believe. A senior Washington reporter probed the disconnect, and then joined our podcast to explain. Ever since Bush v. Gore in 2000, voter trust in U.S. elections has followed a zigzag pattern. Democrats’ trust plunged after Al Gore lost the “long count,” and then surged when Barack Obama won the White House.