American Evolution 2024 

An Arab American awakening: The newly assertive community could swing the US presidential election

From conservative cores and cosmopolitan corridors, to hollowed-out heartlands and cloud economies, follow US bureau chief Bhagyashree Garekar on a journey across the US ahead of its presidential election in November. 

Pro-Palestinian students staged demonstrations, sit-ins and set up camps at the University of Michigan to protest the invasion of Gaza by Israel. ST PHOTO: BHAGYASHREE GAREKAR
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DEARBORN (Michigan) – At first glance, Dearborn looks like any city in the Midwest. It is laid out with a main street converging onto a stretch of shopfronts, dusty with age but still at the centre of social life.

The roads may be potholed, but the landscape is open and, at this time of the year, verdant with evergreen trees.

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