Making Sense of the US Midterms

Gideon Rachman is Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for Financial Times.

David Smith is Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Foreign Policy at the University of Sydney and a British Academy Visiting Fellow.

Leslie Vinjamuriis the Head of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House and Reader in International Relations, SOAS, University of London.

Linda Yueh is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS and member of the Policy Committee at the Centre for Economic Performance. She is Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, London Business School. Her latest book is The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today.

Peter Trubowitz isDepartment Head of International Relations and Director of the US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs.