America

What would Walt Disney have made of the USA we now find ourselves in?

No serious candidate for the presidency has ever deployed such grotesque and horrific language. But then there has never been a politician like Trump

Unions are what Joe Biden is. But Trump tells them his rival wants to offshore their jobs to China

The Dutch language survived in North America for many decades after the English had taken control of the formerly Dutch-controlled area

The Republicans' campaign to take down the president will be short-lived

It’s hard to accept that women today have fewer rights than when Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs 50 years ago

Beloved of celebrities, the SS Normandie was the fastest, most beautiful ocean-going liner of them all – yet it was doomed from the start

Even before the recent racist murders in Jacksonville, governor Ron DeSantis has continually pushed anti-Black policies in the state

Oliver Anthony’s Rich Men North of Richmond highlights issues found at the very heart of the nation

Vivek Ramaswamy’s moment in the sun signifies that Trump is only the beginning

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

A Georgian lawyer has used the game-changing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in her indictment against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani

Trump has made a career out of redesigning reality to suit him

Some say the US is in a superpower death spiral like the one that hit post-empire Britain. The signs of decline are there – but so are some green shoots

What I am discovering, in re-reading his novels, is the immense capacity not only of his mind, but of his humanity

Musk is building his libertarian utopia on dry land while the rest of us hold up our hands in despair

Political disruptors from Joe Biden’s side of the spectrum could split the Democrat vote and open the door for Donald Trump

Only Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak can be PM after the next election. If you want to see the back of the Conservatives you need to vote Labour

The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America

In this new world, a president should be no older than 65 – old enough to have the wisdom of age and the youth to still grasp what needs to be understood

Once there is a mandate, Labour needs to sign up to as many as possible of Europe’s own “Bidenomics” projects

In reality, RFK Jr poses no threat to Joe Biden. The movement around him, however, might

The High Court’s ruling on Maya Forstater is good news for everyone

Elon Musk has hollowed out the social network just as a vital election cycle approaches

If democracies continue to produce such dysfunctional leaders, the only beneficiaries will be authoritarian states with their repressive, brutal alternative

Jobriath dreamed of combining Dietrich with Dylan and playing at the Paris Opera. Then reality bit

The June 19 holiday is Black America’s 4th of July

Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick

West won’t succeed. But his failure could push the US towards fascism

Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all

A new contender has emerged in the Republican presidential race – the first African American to be elected to the Senate from the South since 1881