Oliver Wiseman

Oliver Wiseman was the US Editor of The Critic from 2019 to 2021. He tweets at @ollywiseman

The president’s theatrics won’t persuade the voters he needs

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Americans are talking past one another

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A trip through a swing state reveals the complex dynamics of a strangely disembodied presidential race

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The death of a great American shakes up the race for the White House

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When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser

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While American churches remain deeply split on racial lines, there are hopeful signs of a rapprochement

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2020 has been a humbling year. Convention season was no different

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A day on the high seas with an armada of Donald Trump supporters

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2020 isn’t 2016 and Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton

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What the views of Biden’s VP pick say about America

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