America’s affordability crisis and corruption are now treated as two sides of the same coin as voters head to the ballot box next week.
It is unclear whether Pete Hegseth’s morbid gimmick would be a one-off or open a new chapter in America’s fraught history of crime and punishment.
The windfall tax’s aim is political, not budgetary, and is likely to spread across America. Google co-founder Sergey Brin and others are fighting hard to stop it.
At a time of careening global instability, America’s president is simultaneously stoking it and uninterested in doing anything about it.
An event that was meant to celebrate an exceptional nation has been cornered by Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has called him a “little f---er” but Ukraine’s president increasingly looks as though he holds the future of the West in his hands.
Decades before Operation Epic Fury, America picked up the habit of confusing its military superiority with an ability to impose its will on faraway lands.
Silicon Valley encourages the view that the technology is unstoppable – and the US president seems to agree. But most people fear it will do more harm than good.
Given his recent flurry of naming things after himself and cementing his legacy, it would be strange if dynastic succession were not on Donald Trump’s mind.
The shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner was the third attempt on the US president’s life in less than two years.
Fewer and fewer Americans think of Israel as David standing up to the Arab world’s Goliath. More and more associate it with heavy-handed militarism.
After a series of setbacks, the vice president is no longer Donald Trump’s obvious successor. He also lacks the charisma to create his own political base.
The US president has said he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations to end the war with Iran continue.
The president made the threat about NATO’s future after appealing to allies to help open the Strait of Hormuz to ease the energy crisis.
The US president has already done lasting damage to international trust in America after his foray into the Islamic Republic.
Anyone who claims to know where this conflict is heading is bluffing, including the president, whose war aims are kaleidoscopic.
The road to Trumpian recklessness is paved with flattery, as a cabinet of sycophants makes an already erratic US president a greater threat.
The California governor has just won over Europe and is riding high in prediction polls, but America’s Democratic voters will be a much tougher sell.
Donald Trump and his supporters see London as the symbol of a Europe facing “civilisational erasure”.
The depth of the convicted paedophile’s network shows America’s elite have no culture of shame. Some spurned his social approaches, but they were a minority.
