America

His new documentary series profiles delusional misogynists. Will the women in their lives ever push back against them?

The increasingly loopy president's public pronouncements are becoming more unhinged by the day

The Reform leader was snubbed by the president on his latest trip to America

Trump may not have a plan, but the Iranians do. And Americans aren’t going to like it

Prediction markets are a way of betting on the future. But have members of the Trump administration been using them to profit from secret military knowledge?

Even his MAGA base thinks it’s madness. But amongst the outrage, there are still some Americans who cling to magical thinking, and to the idea that it’ll all work out fine

Somewhere along the line, the American right became detached from the importance of “truth”, and we all know whose fault that is. But how did it happen?

The Minnesota bloodbath was all his idea. For now, he’s safely in the White House – but one day he could make a very useful scapegoat

Donald Trump takes on the world and loses - as imagined by Henry Morris

Trump’s Iran war has been launched with no evidence, no intelligence and no plan

The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse of Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous

Ken Burns, the great documentary-maker, returns with a masterful study of the American revolution. The resonances for the present day are hard to miss

Now we've Taken Back Control, the likes of the Sun and Mail are demanding we unquestioningly support a mad American president

On the off chance something good does emerge from this chaotic conflict, don’t rush to give the President any credit for it

Polymarket has defended allowing people to bet on war, claiming somehow that what it was doing was “invaluable”

Charles Kushner – Jared’s dad – spent two years in jail after secretly filming his brother-in-law with a prostitute. So naturally Donald Trump made him ambassador to France. It’s been a disaster

The rapper is defending himself against claims of antisemitic workplace discrimination by claiming artistic expression

The Reform leader and occasional MP for Clacton is off another personal money-making trip to America

From ending a war in 'Servia' to moaning he hadn't got a military medal, the stand-out moments of an unhinged one hour 47 minutes

They’re the single largest demographic group in America and arguably the most politically influential – yet they seem to attract the ire and contempt of political figures from all sides

Robert F. Kennedy Jr's running mate is leading the fundraising effort for a film mocking the reaction to the Covid pandemic

The FBI director's spinner was furious at reports he was in Italy for the ice hockey final. But there he was...

If the president thinks he’s about to lose control of Congress, there’s a range of tricks he could use to steal the election. It will take a nation of millions to stop him

Weiss made a career by playing the media outsider. But now she’s running CBS – and despite declining audience and newsroom turmoil, there’s no way she can lose

For a while it looked as if Elon Musk would dominate the world of electric cars – but then he turned out to be a basket-case. Now there’s a new global leader in town

A Republican congressman claims Democrats want to get rid of dogs. He was less concerned when one of his own party literally did just that

He's put his name to a street and a cultural centre - but now the carrot-coloured Caligula has set his sights higher

She supported Trump, the January 6 riots and spouted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now she’s renounced the president and appears on liberal chat shows – but is her conversion all it appears?

The former chair of the US National Intelligence Council says that America’s security apparatus is so damaged the UK is holding back intelligence from the US

With his own man as chair of the Federal Reserve, and infuriated by the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, the president might now seek to manipulate the currency for political ends

The former president made some comments about extraterrestrial life on a podcast and a lot of people got very excited for all the wrong reasons