Making a big song and dance about the entire business of "endorsements" seems to be a very US thing as far as I know. I am of course not familiar with all democracies of the world, but it doesn't seem common anywhere else I've seen.

I can't prove you wrong, but I think political alignment of newspapers come in many flavors. Many countries have more parties than two, and as the choice ls less binary, the endorsements can be more subtle.

It's common practice across the anglosphere (US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ). I'm not sure about elsewhere.

Cases in point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorsements_in_the_2024_Unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endorsements_in_2019_A...

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian paper. Here is its history of endorsements since 1984:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-electi...

There is an entire Wikipedia page devoted only to endorsements in the 2024 United Kingdom general election:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorsements_in_the_2024_Uni...

Yeah, it does seem big in anglo-saxon countries. (I already posted that Wikipedia page, btw.)

I have an eight year old so there’s a big gap between actually starting a comment and posting it. That’s a pretty weak thing to criticize me for.

You're not the only one with kids, but I'm not sure how that is relevant.

I am monolingual but here is Le Monde's English edition endorsing an anti-RN (far right party) plan in the recent French Parliamentary elections:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/06/28/french-...

It was done under the name of the Director of Le Monde, rather than as an unsigned editorial as is common in English language newspapers, but it sure looks similar to my American eyes.