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The Tesla chief executive and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs could benefit from deregulation with the new president, but some are already reaping...
In pardoning his son, the president has ensured that the distance between himself and Trump is now shrouded in fog.
You measure a leader by his actions not by his heart. To judge from what Trump has done within a fortnight of winning the presidency, his path is...
The president-elect has promised vengeance against perceived enemies - and legions of Trumpians are ready to carry out his wishes.
Kamala Harris is correct that the republic is in danger, but that message may not be enough to prevent a Trump victory.
Reality is now running ahead of fiction in this political era, according to producers of the sitcom “Veep” about a flagrantly unprincipled...
In a country divided into mutually hostile camps, no easy resolution to the polarisation seems likely after the November poll.
The Democratic nominee’s reluctance to do media interviews will not help sell her to undecided voters before the election.
Her shift from indifferent vice president to source of Obama-scale enthusiasm has caught many unaware. Yet Democratic talk of victory is dangerously...
Silence is the wisest option for Kamala Harris on a divisive election issue that is harming the global image of the US.
Tim Walz is a blue-collar moderate, who branded the Trump-Vance ticket “weird”. His working-class appeal can help Democrats prevail in swing...
The Democrats must decide between a coronation of the vice-president or a divisive contested convention.
A bullet almost killed the man who is vowing retribution if he is returned to the White House. A spirit of vengeance is haunting America.
Joe Biden has not targeted the former president’s trade policy during the campaign, but it would be disastrous for the US, and the rest of the...
A set piece clash between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will turn less on policies than on manner and appearance. What they say will matter less than how...
Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture.
A New York jury showed that no man is above the law. Their fellow Americans could over-rule that in November.
Halting the former US president is proving very difficult for Joe Biden as the rivals head towards November’s election.
The US is growing tired of upholding the economic rules it laid out for the world after 1945. But tariffs only punish consumers and undermine...
Israel’s war on Hamas is a serious drain for Joe Biden as he heads towards the US presidential election.
The difference between 2024 and 2016, when Trump last won the presidency, is that this time he has a plan. From Europe’s perspective, it would look...
Improved relations between the two powers can’t mask age-old trade tensions. Better communication is important because the structural problem...
Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.
Democrats need to press home their advantage on the abortion issue that seems a sure vote-loser for Republicans in November.
Robert Kennedy jnr’s third-party candidacy could split the vote in key swing states. Polls give him between 2 and 15 per cent of the vote in a...
The Republican candidate’s financial difficulties pose risks for America as well as for himself.
The candidate’s unchecked flow of untruths and bizarre outbursts spell danger but they no longer cause sufficient shock.
The former South Carolina governor is boosting her brand by standing alone against Donald Trump in the Republican Party, writes Edward Luce.
The Republican frontrunner is hoping to cash in on the presidency to mend his business woes.
President Joe Biden is no frail outlier but actually the gerontocratic norm in the United States.
Most voters, including supporters of his own party, see the president as too old to run again.
Republicans are blocking critical policies that they insisted on because Donald Trump wants to score political points before the November election.
Many business leaders argue that the former president’s bark is worse than his bite. People warned about him in 2017, but the republic is still...
The president’s staunch support for Israel risks damaging his prospects for re-election this year.
Unless the struggling presidential hopeful reverses course and attacks Donald Trump, the nomination race might just be over.
Everything will change for European and Asian democracies if a man bent on dictatorship re-enters the White House next year.