America

Africa will always be part of my identity – but not all of it

How close are populist leaders like Geert Wilders to fitting Umberto Eco’s definition of fascist traits?

She is a one-off and her memoir reads as such

Joe Biden is too old and Donald Trump is too divisive – is a Taylor-made change on the horizon?

The gaping hole in the UK pizza market is New York-style slices. Might it be something in the water?

In the UK and the US, political parties must accept that trade unionism is on the rise

The assassination of JFK forever changed America’s national psyche

How the raising of cattle by a mixture of Mexicans, African-Americans and Americans gave rise to a distinctive vocabulary

A new show reveals the American artist’s many changes of direction, from condemning racism and violence to the calm of everyday life

Plea deals for his former allies are a disaster for the election-denying ex-president

Can the US president steer events in the Middle East?

The Swedish actress’s unhappy Hollywood experience prompted a lifelong questioning of what being herself actually meant

Many of us now use words imported from across the pond, like ’truck’ instead of ’lorry’. But the traffic isn’t only one-way...

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