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Republican McConnell and his ilk must be delighted: they’ve waged a decades-long campaign to stack the courts with conservative ideologues

If there were hopes for a return to normality in 2018, the US president’s trigger-happy nature belies all those expectations

Having helped deliver the presidency, the former FBI director is now going out of his way to deliver impeachment proceedings

Shocking poll numbers tell of a uniquely difficult path for the new commander-in-chief. And that’s before the scandals start

Gun violence is a mental health problem at the highest level, and America’s political leaders need urgent treatment

Instead of singling out ‘radical Islamist terrorism’, Trump must understand that extremism has no religion

Flynn’s resignation is no surprise, given that the US president is too careless to handle national security

America’s rust-belt surely loves the Trump brand of braggadocious presidency, but the problem is this commander-in-chief is armed with uranium

The US president’s fury at a federal judge who overturned his immigration order betrays his deep — and dangerous — ignorance of the constitution

The latest pseudo-scandal to hit Clinton is unlikely to rob her of the presidency. But it sure isn’t going to impress voters already sickened by a shocking campaign

What has America really debated during this long contest? Not war and peace, capitalism and socialism, surveillance and privacy — but tweets, and pneumonia

Disgusting comments about groping women, and a non-apology, have sealed his fate. The only question now is what the GOP can rescue of its own reputation