America

Cats, Montaigne would've been relieved to know, are not on the menu in Springfield

She wiped the floor with him. But Trump is still very dangerous

A credulous, paranoid chancer, Musk has risen to fame through luck and other people’s hard work

Given the insurrectionary character of Trump’s politics, is it wise for his opponents to seek this?

The Republican presidential nominee has claimed to have divine protection – but there is a violent threat behind his ‘God whistles’

Fusion won’t arrive soon enough to solve global warming but it could become a commercial reality in the second half of the century

The director emerged from a well-trodden European emigration narrative to become a Zelig-like figure in the early history of modern popular culture

If you fail to see beyond the Trump lies, the chaos and narcissism, you fail to understand why people might vote for him in the first place

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

Vice-presidential picks don’t tend to swing US elections. But Kamala Harris’s choice, an authentic avatar of the Midwest, could change that

Harris has seized the momentum in the presidential campaign but still faces a tough battle with Trump

One Bad Guy denouement makes me think of the Republican Party’s candidate for POTUS

What Harris’s Democrats can teach Starmer’s Labour party

Police and demonstrators faced each other on the Chicago streets. The crowd chanted – but was anyone in the convention centre listening?

As cinema shows, the coach has a kind of sacred space in American life

This was supposed to be the year populism triumphed. But a push towards its most extreme followers could be fatal

The rise of Kamala Harris looked unstoppable heading into the Democratic convention. But the White House is still all to play for

Harris is making the most of this opportunity while Trump is, frankly, floundering

Robert Kennedy Jr is deeply weird - but could still end up with a key role in a Republican White House

Technical issues delayed the start of the blowhards’ audio chat. The delay was the best bit

But are her strong numbers evidence of a temporary “bounce” or a long-term “wave”?

Ironically, the Trump campaign is trying to paint Kamala Harris’s likeability as a joke

Hollywood vintage has produced films of varying quality about hillbilly people. Its masterpiece, of course, is John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath

The Harris campaign understands why being deemed a political oddball is visibly getting under Trump's skin

The United States, then, has to live with the fact it helped free people serving time for crimes as severe as murder

Vance is an odd choice. Insights from his memoir only make the decision stranger

Women presidents in film get into all kinds of trouble, mainly because they’re not at home taking care of their kids and cooking for their husbands

Kamala Harris has made a flying start to her presidential campaign, and so far Trump has no answer

Almost everything you have heard about Donald Trump and Project 2025 is true. And it is every bit as terrifying as it sounds