America

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

I tried to buy cheap healthy food in the US – but it’s impossible

The president’s trip to Scotland proves there’s a real harm in not holding his actions to account

After decades of benefiting from investment, Dublin now finds itself stranded - with plenty of problems and few friends - in a dangerous new world

Jess Glynne has publicly expressed her distaste at the video while Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have clarified that they do not endorse the use of their brand for government policy

The technology firms of Silicon Valley want people to make way for AI by giving up control. That couldn’t be further from the European view

The country’s ‘Freedom Pilots’ flew alongside American colleagues before being given refuge in the US when the Taliban returned. Now the MAGA regime wants to send them home – to what fate?

The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having

The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle

He promised to end America’s wars abroad. Instead, he is starting one at home

The American philosopher championed ideas that inspired the likes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr – as well as the protests of today

A very influential, rich American says the Antichrist has returned. The worst thing is how many people might actually believe him

The chaos he inflicts on the world is perplexing, but his behaviour has clear patterns

He might stop obsessing about building walls – and it might just improve his political philosophy

The Republican party used to have principles. Not any more

In a draining digital age of new problems and new tech, the planet’s most powerful leaders are all in their 70s – and increasingly at war with reality

Far right nationalistic beliefs are now run-of-the-mill daily rhetoric in US public life

As temperatures rise and insurance markets get spooked, voters and populist politicians still want to spend less on the environment

The prime minister needs to retain a strong relationship with Donald Trump’s America – but not any price

An impulsive reign has taken a deadly turn in Iran that could end in years of conflict in the Middle East - and an authoritarian power grab at home

The president used to disdain cryptocurrency. But legal bills, greed and the chance for leverage over the markets have changed all that

Rain or shine, Trump craves adoration – which was his motivation for the spectacle to mark the US Army’s 250th anniversary all along

Gere is no fan of Trump or America’s current political climate. So, like an increasing number of US citizens, he left for Europe

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The world saw through the spectacle for what it was: the whim of a self-styled strongman in need of flattery and adoration

Like the hapless Fantasia character, Donald Trump has learned that wielding the axe without experience, humility and understanding ends in chaos

A new book suggests that we should appreciate flashes of genius without believing that they make a person uniquely special

Experiments to combat climate change using ‘iron fertilisation’ to boost plankton growth, first proposed in the 1980s, remain unproven and contentious

The Belgian is – temporarily – replacing Tintoretto in one of the Venice’s sacred spaces. But first he wants to talk about Trump