America

Even if the US doesn’t slide towards tyranny on November 5, almost half the electorate are going to end up disgruntled

Viktor Orbán and Nigel Farage are backing the Republican - but they should be careful what they wish for

The Trump campaign plays on the deepest fears and instincts of the US electorate – making rational arguments against him will not work

Across the US, the authorities are banning books. If Trump gets into the White House, the censorship could get even worse

The vice president went on the Call Her Daddy podcast to reach out to her core support – but why does she need the help?

The private equity industry – a wealth-extracting machine – is swallowing up UK businesses and stripping them of their assets while our politicians stand by

Is her forthcoming memoir’s defence of abortion an indication that Republicans won’t be so hardline on this issue if elected?

Scientific American magazine has endorsed Kamala Harris, but many in the science community have their concerns

Just as Scientology survived and thrived after the demise of L Ron Hubbard, the MAGA movement will go on even if Donald Trump loses

If the Democratic candidate wants to seal the deal with American voters, she should go on Joe Rogan’s podcast

The farce of the Republican nominee’s rants about immigrants eating cats and dogs disguises a deep well of poison

Cats, Montaigne would've been relieved to know, are not on the menu in Springfield

She wiped the floor with him. But Trump is still very dangerous

A credulous, paranoid chancer, Musk has risen to fame through luck and other people’s hard work

Given the insurrectionary character of Trump’s politics, is it wise for his opponents to seek this?

The Republican presidential nominee has claimed to have divine protection – but there is a violent threat behind his ‘God whistles’

Fusion won’t arrive soon enough to solve global warming but it could become a commercial reality in the second half of the century

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture

If you fail to see beyond the Trump lies, the chaos and narcissism, you fail to understand why people might vote for him in the first place

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

Vice-presidential picks don’t tend to swing US elections. But Kamala Harris’s choice, an authentic avatar of the Midwest, could change that

Harris has seized the momentum in the presidential campaign but still faces a tough battle with Trump

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