America

The death of the Czech-French novelist made me wonder if I exiled myself, just to get out of Ronald Reagan’s America

In this new world, a president should be no older than 65 – old enough to have the wisdom of age and the youth to still grasp what needs to be understood

Once there is a mandate, Labour needs to sign up to as many as possible of Europe’s own “Bidenomics” projects

In reality, RFK Jr poses no threat to Joe Biden. The movement around him, however, might

The High Court’s ruling on Maya Forstater is good news for everyone

Elon Musk has hollowed out the social network just as a vital election cycle approaches

If democracies continue to produce such dysfunctional leaders, the only beneficiaries will be authoritarian states with their repressive, brutal alternative

Jobriath dreamed of combining Dietrich with Dylan and playing at the Paris Opera. Then reality bit

The June 19 holiday is Black America’s 4th of July

Write the former president off at your peril – he epitomises the American dream and knows what makes us tick

West won’t succeed. But his failure could push the US towards fascism

Trump faces a crowded field of Republican rivals. He'll obliterate them all

A new contender has emerged in the Republican presidential race – the first African American to be elected to the Senate from the South since 1881

Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history

The Florida governor has taken on a formidable foe in a battle for the heart of American childhood

The California city is now for too many like a plague-ridden medieval Florence, once glorious, now inglorious

The pipe dream that the genie of AI is going to be thrust back in the bottle is just that

If president Biden’s gamble fails to pay off, the entire collective west will likely fragment

The American right’s culture battles are creating empty shelves in Republican states. Could Britain join in with this madness?

From Tucker Carlson to Andrew Bridgen and GB News, populists have lost their grip on the narrative

Has King Charles given humanity a gift towards healing the intergenerational trauma caused by slavery?

The Americans call it zee, but it is not the only letter pronounced differently in certain parts of the English- speaking world

Right wingers sniping at Joe Biden is one more example of their delusion about Britain’s importance to the US

Trump is back, Carlson is gone - it’s all about the money for Murdoch. The real-life Logan Roy is bigger than fiction

Brexit pressures, from a devalued pound to a worker shortage, are to blame

Two young Black Democrats expelled from the state’s legislature are channelling the legacy of civil rights resistance in the South

Even though the Brexiteers can’t see it, strong relations with Biden would be good for Britain – and the West

Republicans are hailing the former president a martyr, but Donald Trump must not win again. He is a demagogue and potential dictator

The Democrats are talking about gun control and the Republicans are talking about paying off porn stars

The fact that ethnic minority Republicans are Trump’s fastest-growing supporters boils down to the fact that we humans are not categories

For discredited populists, it has been the week justice hit back

To the director, women were not full human beings - they were props and justifications for male rampage