America

One Bad Guy denouement makes me think of the Republican Party’s candidate for POTUS

What Harris’s Democrats can teach Starmer’s Labour party

Police and demonstrators faced each other on the Chicago streets. The crowd chanted – but was anyone in the convention centre listening?

As cinema shows, the coach has a kind of sacred space in American life

This was supposed to be the year populism triumphed. But a push towards its most extreme followers could be fatal

The rise of Kamala Harris looked unstoppable heading into the Democratic convention. But the White House is still all to play for

Harris is making the most of this opportunity while Trump is, frankly, floundering

Robert Kennedy Jr is deeply weird - but could still end up with a key role in a Republican White House

Technical issues delayed the start of the blowhards’ audio chat. The delay was the best bit

But are her strong numbers evidence of a temporary “bounce” or a long-term “wave”?

Ironically, the Trump campaign is trying to paint Kamala Harris’s likeability as a joke

Hollywood vintage has produced films of varying quality about hillbilly people. Its masterpiece, of course, is John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath

The Harris campaign understands why being deemed a political oddball is visibly getting under Trump's skin

The United States, then, has to live with the fact it helped free people serving time for crimes as severe as murder

Vance is an odd choice. Insights from his memoir only make the decision stranger

Women presidents in film get into all kinds of trouble, mainly because they’re not at home taking care of their kids and cooking for their husbands

Kamala Harris has made a flying start to her presidential campaign, and so far Trump has no answer

Almost everything you have heard about Donald Trump and Project 2025 is true. And it is every bit as terrifying as it sounds

What the golf-mad presidential frontrunner’s game says about him

Harris must learn how to construct a voter coalition in the places that matter through actions, not words

The Democrats are facing an uphill battle to maintain control of the White House

Donald Trump is now the ageing, rambling candidate in the US election – and his flaws were on show in Milwaukee

It is a great virtue, and a great gift as well, to know when to stop. Especially when you’re at the top

The ‘Trump can’t lose’ rhetoric now, at last, has some serious competition

American philosopher Thomas Kuhn's controversial thinking turned normal science on its head

With Biden gone, perhaps some of the truth might get through to Trump’s supporters after all

Kamala Harris is underrated. Now she must quickly define her message – and hope to avoid a drawn-out challenge

It was the toughest of decisions - now the Democrats face many more