America

Trump is descended from immigrants and has a multilingual family. Why is he not more tolerant of bilingual arrivals?

Donald Trump's picks for the big science and technology jobs seem calculated to spread despair. Scientists need to formulate a robust response

Donald Trump will abandon us as soon as it suits him and pretending otherwise is nonsense

The Slovak prime minister agrees with Trump about everything — well, almost

The president-elect’s embrace of comedians, podcasters and combat sports stars is a lesson for hectoring liberals

America has become a paranoid nation that wants to insulate itself from the world and I underestimated this

We need a military alliance of European nations, which will require the UK to not just cooperate but to be inside the structure

Senate Republicans know that Matt Gaetz is unfit to run US law enforcement. But defying Donald Trump is bigger than defending democracy

The Ukraine missile strikes he has permitted won’t change the war – but they must change minds in the EU and UK

Key questions about the cryptocurrency remain unanswered even as the Republican’s victory causes it to soar

Donald Trump's new hire appears to have learned a trick from Boris Johnson's former consigliere

Trump has nominated a “Russian agent of influence” to one of the most sensitive roles in US government

New York expected victory for Kamala Harris. Now it’s in a daze, coming to terms with four more years

Americans aren’t my people, not for one great reason but for a thousand small ones

Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last

Arrogant and stuck on broadcast mode, the Democrats have stopped listening to America

Donald Trump’s election has called into question the Euro-Atlanticism elements of Labour foreign policy

If Trump sees himself as a Randian hero, expect nothing but indifferent self-interest for the next four years

The British press featured some bizarre coverage of the US election this week, even by its own standards

The wisecracking writer was traumatised and transformed by her 1937 visit to Spain to support the Republican cause in the civil war

As president for the second time, Donald Trump has scores to settle and a dark plan that posterity will be unable to ignore

A journey through Pennsylvania showed that, in the Rust Belt, this was not an election about character or abortion – it was about the price of eggs

And if he does give in to the Russian president, what will the consequences be for Ukraine and for Europe?

The Reform leader is boasting of his links to the president elect. Yet curiously no photographs yet exist

The philosoper’s ethical legacy lives on in the form of a bot – but its hectoring, evangelical tone means it is far from convincing

For years, scientists have been trying to undermine the cornerstone of modern fundamental physics, but it stubbornly refuses to break

The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars

There is a central explanation for Trump’s victory – and it is not a comfortable one

Europeans watch Friends and eat burgers and think we understand America. Then elections like this make us realise we really don’t