US politics

While the world's attention is focused on Iran, back in Washington, a US Supreme Court ruling is quietly stripping Trump of one of his most powerful foreign policy tools

The US has long sought control over Latin American resources, but Trump’s latest attacks in Venezuela go a step further in his attempts to deny their economic sovereignty

Tech giants once opposed government power. Now they're copying China's model of corporate-state partnership

More than a month into a government shutdown and with 42 million Americans losing food assistance – focusing the cost-of-living crisis is getting Democrats elected

Americans should look much closer to home to understand what authoritarian regimes look like – the modern models of dictatorship in Latin America

While addressing racist gestures is important, criminalisation is not the only answer. We must deal with the underlying social, political and cultural conditions that enable them

President Trump appears to be aiming for a more insular America. Here we explore how a lack of US participation could affect global efforts to combat health crises and climate change – and where we might see a glimmer of hope.

Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections has come as a shock to some and a joy to others, but there are good reasons to think his second term will be a success

As important as the analysis of this White House race will be, Donald Trump’s re-election as US president must be understood against the broader sweep of American history

We must recognise that the future of global democracy, including our own, will be shaped by what happens in America this November