America

It’s different to last time. But just because it doesn’t look the same, doesn’t mean it’s any less fanatical, or sinister

It’s the nastiest, most polarising and angriest TV station ever created. It also happens to be the most influential

The media mogul likes winners – and now it seems when he looks at the White House he sees nothing but a stone cold loser

The Chinese leader was the first foreign head to be greeted by a US president on the tarmac in over sixty years. That’s how desperate Trump is

Carney, Mamdani and Ossoff are all showing you can take on the raging right and win. But there’s one crucial lesson from them that Andy Burnham must learn

A new biography reveals his mentor Roy Cohn as a man who turned corruption and cruelty into big business

The CBS editor-in-chief gave a fawning speech as the far right tech tycoon picked up the Axel Springer Award

Netflix’s new Ted Kaczynski movie arrives just as his violent war on technology is gaining a new generation of admirers from both left and right

In This F*cking Guy, Erin Ryan catalogues the worst people in the US, from Karoline Leavitt and Kash Patel to Alex Jones and Pete Hegseth

It sounds like a grotesque idea, and also a morally dubious one. What does a group of scientists at Stanford hope to achieve?

When a group of white supremacists turned up outside one of her shows in the summer of 1927, the great blues singer knew just what to do

The president’s biggest fear is a Wall Street panic that turns him into a lame duck

Facing a blackout from the traditional media, the president has launched his own rival YouTube channel. Trouble is, nobody's watching it

A socialist insurgency is shaking the party as it heads into the midterms and eyes a return to the White House

If anything, the situation now looks worse than it did back in the run-up to the last crash. And this time round, who would lead the global response?

Lauren Boebert, a MAGA congresswoman, is facing lurid claims about inappropriate relationships with staff members

Trump’s approval ratings are now a disaster. But that doesn’t mean American voters are flocking to his opponents.

Increasingly worried about mid-term polling, Trump has settled on his electoral strategy – a massive programme of wealth redistribution

I went to the Republican midterm convention and found a strange, nostalgic atmosphere. Afterwards I had a word with the president about succession

Kash Patel was hauled before senators this week to explain why he loosened the bureau’s rules on applicants who have had sex with animals.

The happy couple insist the Kremlin-linked oligarch is simply a “dear friend”. Nothing to see here

Four hours is a long time to spend inside the mind of the world’s richest man – and that’s because his mind turns out to be a twisted, miserable nightmare

Forget the idea of major breakthroughs by a lone genius – the truth is always much messier

And this one really is a big deal – although, as with everything connected with the new technology, it comes with a healthy side-order of controversy

After extensive talks with top MAGA insiders, TNW can reveal the tactics that will surely give the Republicans a clean sweep of the mid-terms...

Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here depicted a future US in which a fascist came to power promising a $5,000 yearly stipend

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism explores the religious fanatics and tech billionaires who see catastrophe as an opportunity

My generation inherited the legacy of 9/11 – the wars, the terrorism, the paranoia. But there is one thing that we will never know

The president has got a serious problem with former senior MAGA figures who are now estranged – they could be the ones to destroy his political legacy for good

One bad night’s sleep and it’s moan, moan moan. They reckon they’re the pinnacle of the species – but what’s the point of living forever if you don’t have a life to start with?

After the 2001 terror attacks against the US, the west went to war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Now, in Afghanistan, both of them are back