America

New York expected victory for Kamala Harris. Now it’s in a daze, coming to terms with four more years

Americans aren’t my people, not for one great reason but for a thousand small ones

Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last

Arrogant and stuck on broadcast mode, the Democrats have stopped listening to America

Donald Trump’s election has called into question the Euro-Atlanticism elements of Labour foreign policy

If Trump sees himself as a Randian hero, expect nothing but indifferent self-interest for the next four years

The British press featured some bizarre coverage of the US election this week, even by its own standards

The wisecracking writer was traumatised and transformed by her 1937 visit to Spain to support the Republican cause in the civil war

As president for the second time, Donald Trump has scores to settle and a dark plan that posterity will be unable to ignore

A journey through Pennsylvania showed that, in the Rust Belt, this was not an election about character or abortion – it was about the price of eggs

And if he does give in to the Russian president, what will the consequences be for Ukraine and for Europe?

The Reform leader is boasting of his links to the president elect. Yet curiously no photographs yet exist

The philosoper’s ethical legacy lives on in the form of a bot – but its hectoring, evangelical tone means it is far from convincing

For years, scientists have been trying to undermine the cornerstone of modern fundamental physics, but it stubbornly refuses to break

The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars

There is a central explanation for Trump’s victory – and it is not a comfortable one

Europeans watch Friends and eat burgers and think we understand America. Then elections like this make us realise we really don’t

As Ukraine despairs and Europe’s populists cheer Trump’s win, Keir Starmer faces up to the need to rejoin the single market

The result of the US election contains one clear message for Britain – and for Starmer

The news from across the Atlantic is brutal. But all is not quite lost

Trump’s return to power has been helped by the complete failure of the American left

The night started with nauseous optimism. Then came vodka and gloom

Trump is now ominously close to victory as the Harris surge proved a fantasy

The Reform leader is out campaigning for Donald Trump after lambasting Labour staffers for doing similar for Kamala Harris

Historians will analyse this election, and the phenomenon of Trump, for the rest of time

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has held her extreme political instincts in check – so far. If Trump wins, will that change?

Justin Webb allowed Matt Schlapp to toss out a series of obvious untruths involving Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton and the January 6 riots

A journey through North and South Carolina reveals the widening gap between the current Trumpian GOP and the party it used to be

The Harris v Trump contest remains on a knife-edge. So does the country

If you’re wondering how a person like Trump might win, just look at what some of his supporters believe

The shining city on the hill has become a citadel of darkness. Whoever wins, American optimism is dead