US election

Dominic Cummings has praised Pete Hegseth – but America's extremist future defence secretary could help push Britain back towards the EU

Many Americans liked what they saw in Trump’s first term and have just voted for more of the same. This could easily happen again in 2028

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

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

The News Agents stars disagree about how badly the Democrat candidate flopped

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

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

The news from across the Atlantic is brutal. But all is not quite lost

The Reform leader is out campaigning for Donald Trump after lambasting Labour staffers for doing similar for Kamala Harris

We’re on newsstands and through subscribers’ doors a day later than usual because of the US election

Historians will analyse this election, and the phenomenon of Trump, for the rest of time

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has held her extreme political instincts in check – so far. If Trump wins, will that change?

Justin Webb allowed Matt Schlapp to toss out a series of obvious untruths involving Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton and the January 6 riots

The Harris v Trump contest remains on a knife-edge. So does the country

If you’re wondering how a person like Trump might win, just look at what some of his supporters believe

Is it the case that, rather than America being fatally drawn to Trump, he is simply running against a Democrat who presided over a huge inflation surge?

The shining city on the hill has become a citadel of darkness. Whoever wins, American optimism is dead

Whoever wins the White House, this knife-edge campaign holds important lessons on policy, presentation and the new politics

A diaspora of 120,000 in Pennsylvania fear Trump and could turn a state he lost by just 80,000 votes last time

The hordes outside Madison Square Garden looked normal. What they talked about was anything but

Already loathed by much of his staff for connections to Rupert Murdoch, the Washington Post’s British publisher Will Lewis is now under renewed fire for his decision to cancel an endorsement of Kamala Harris

Yes, polls are tightening and some early voting seems to favour Trump. But multiple signs suggest Harris is heading for a close victory

As November 5 approaches, here’s what you should be reading

The Reform leader’s attack on Labour over its activists volunteering for Kamala Harris has blown up in his face

The Democrats are united and have stuck to a plan that has worked so far. But if it goes wrong, the party could go into meltdown

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

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

In the aftermath of events in the US, it’s important not to fall into the same hyperbolic trap that plagued our media in the run-up to other recent elections

It was the toughest of decisions - now the Democrats face many more

The close-knit ‘forgotten’ borough of Staten Island is a Republican stronghold – in stark contrast to the rest of New York City