America

His attempt to grab control of the internet is perhaps the biggest threat of all

The last time the US imposed blanket tariffs it led to global economic and political disaster. This time could be just as bad. How can the rest of the world defend itself?

No matter how loudly we call for a return to the customs union and the single market, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are not going to listen

JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are both desperate to succeed Trump in the White House. But a star podcaster could beat them to it

Researchers have developed a promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer, but its future is uncertain due to Robert F Kennedy Jr

The US giants have become sprawling conglomerates, precisely the kind of fat, complacent companies they once set out to disrupt

There is no recorded instance of Lenin using the term “useful idiots” to describe the Soviet Union’s puppets in the west. The phrase became popular during the cold war as a corruption of the Serbo-Croat koristne budale, which means literally “useful innocent”. Either way, it is the perfect way to describe Tucker Carlson, who travelled to […]

Employees are quitting their jobs, of their own accord, at exceedingly high rates. Welcome to a new era of work.

The Black Eyed Peas star is going on a 'quest to find out more about the lives of Black Britons'.

Donald Trump might seem like yesterday's news - but he is not going away. He has trapped into a feeling shared by many in America.

Many authors have tried to make sense of the global tensions that produced 9/11 and the western response. But it is a little-known book written 50 years earlier that gets the closest.

In a vote on the governor’s leadership through the pandemic, voters resoundingly rejected replacing him with a Trumpist Republican.

Regardless of its merits, the cack-handed handling of the defence deal between the US, UK and Australia risks handing the initiative to China and Russia.

BONNIE GREER slams the 'Texas Taliban' over the strict abortion laws in Georgia and Louisiana.

BONNIE GREER on how the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center were an attempt to destroy the American Dream.

A stunning new exhibition at this month’s Photo London fair sees Iranian born photographer Shirin Neshat turn her lens on her adopted country.

BONNIE GREER on how the pandemic has intensified the shift in stanning – obsessional fandom – from the world of celebrity to politics.

This week in 1901 the Big Stick Ideology was developed - and influences White House policy to this day.

From 9/11 to Kabul, LIONEL BARBER charts two of the most pivotal decades in US history, a story not of a crumbling superpower but a chosen path to turn inwards, for better or worse.

Do not underestimate Joe Biden's decisions over the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan - he knows what he is doing.

LIONEL BARBER considers the Republicans who might pick up the MAGA mantle and bid for the White House

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the shameful moral vacuum that is the British government of today

The party's left has suffered setbacks, but could its battle with the centre allow the former president to return in 2024?

Former president Donald Trump’s lawsuit suing Google, Facebook and Twitter is as crazy as it sounds – but BONNIE GREER says he is still dangerous The latest lawsuit from former president Donald Trump is as stupid as you think it is. In brief: he is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter in what he calls a […]

The vice-president faces challenges over voting rights and immigration on the southern border… as well as a battle for the country’s soul In the United States in the early years of this century, the Right and its racist elements created the Tea Party. Named after the Boston Tea Party, the new movement came into being […]

What separates the Sackler Family from the Chambers Brothers, asks Will Self, as he ponders the differences between legal and illegal drug dealing One of my favourite cultural books – if such a broad category can be summoned into being, after all, aren’t all books in some sense, cultural? – is Land of Opportunity: One […]

Muhammad Ali took part in some of history’s most memorable fights. One of his least remembered took place 45 years ago this week. It was certainly the most bizarre of his long career, and also one of the most consequential There are many ways to remember Muhammad Ali: cocky, young rapping poet; outspoken political and cultural icon; arguably […]