America

The stakes in this election could scarcely be higher. Is Biden up to the challenge?

A century old, Rhapsody in Blue blends rhythms from the Black jazz age and from the Europe that George Gershwin left behind

Once the toast of New York society, the mystery of why she did what she did remains

There is no question in my mind that Grant is the greatest film actor of all time

Spurred on by fear of her endorsing Biden, the US right is turning on the singer and her gridiron star boyfriend. Bad move

The state of Europe’s fighting forces was too controversial a topic for the Davos agenda

A Russian author is declared a ‘terrorist’ for opposing Putin. American writers are banned in right-wing states. Where will this end?

If US politics gets any stranger, it's going to be hard to explain it any other way

The Beatles gave young Americans gold standard permission to be different from their parents

The role of Rico in Little Caesar proved as career-defining for Robinson as Frankenstein’s monster was for Boris Karloff or Dracula for Bela Lugosi

Despite facing 91 felony charges, Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. He is a dictator-in-waiting

The Florida governor’s big ideas included a map of human faeces as he burned his way through $150m

Low-quality AIs are already serving up fake information to searchers. If this grey goo multiplies, we’re in trouble

Robert Redford portrayal in Three days of the Condor is eerily similar to Trump's contemporary success

Bringing RFK Jr on board could swing the White House race against Biden

While she became one of the most highly respected names in the history of US theatre, Hagen brought a European sensibility to Broadway

It will be a year of political upheaval and war. If leaders can’t navigate a changing world order, the results could be disastrous

Donald Trump’s path back to the White House is not as clear as the polls suggest.. but it is there all the same

Looking back at one of the most consequential lives lost in 2023… Emma Sky remembers an encounter with Henry Kissinger

Animal welfare, Ireland and the US car industry meant the Brexiteers' Stateside ambitions were destined to be thwarted

The populist leaders of Argentina and Venezuela fly under the radar in the northern hemisphere, but the threat they pose is very real

A US politician’s clumsy words about Hamas highlight a wider problem

The Americans have already had their big turkey meal of the year – and Thanksgiving owes a debt to Greece and to harvest festivals

New England has many place names that must have been taken across the North Atlantic by homesick English people in the 1600s

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