Back to square one: Kamala Harris is the Democrats’ leading candidate for election 2028
Lingering presence of Harris and the sudden, disgraced end to Graham Platner’s Senate bid underlines dilemma facing Democratic Party
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A 1991 Simpsons episode remains deft reflection of US politics as America marks 250 years
Supreme Court rulings, culture-war politics and renewed nativism reveal a republic still wrestling with the question of who gets to be American.
Beware ideas which offer a pseudointellectual cover for racist rioting
A book coining the ugly phrase ‘suicidal empathy’ has been on the NYT bestseller list. At its heart is the idea that ‘misdirected’ empathy is destroying western civilisation
Ireland’s politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn’t
‘Not Fine Gael’ is not a policy platform for Ireland’s opposition, any more than ‘not Trump’ helped the US Democrats
MPs fail to land knockout blow on bobbing Morgan McSweeney
Former chief of staff to Keir Starmer backs up old boss’s claims about appointment of Peter Mandelson to Washington post
Grievance propelled Washington attack suspect across country, authorities say
Tutor told his colleagues and students in recent days that a personal emergency would keep him from his teaching
Dave Grohl: ‘I’ll write something I have a hard time saying ... It feels good to scream that shit’
Foo Fighters frontman on tracking phases of his life through albums, reflecting on the band’s early days and what their future might look like
Kamala Harris says she might run for president again in 2028
Former vice-president to Joe Biden lost popular vote and Electoral College to Donald Trump in 2024
Track Star: The music gameshow threatening to take over social media
YouTube series from US brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike
‘I am not done’: Kamala Harris suggests she may run for US president again
Former vice-president dismisses placing her as an outsider to win a place on Democratic White House ticket for 2028
Joe Biden receiving radiation and hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer
Former US president left office in January after he dropped his bid for re-election six months earlier
American media in all its forms is shifting perceptibly rightward
Charlie Kirk’s death sparked heated accusations and arguments across ideological divide
Should Harris have told Biden not to run? ‘Perhaps,’ she writes in new book
Former vice-president accuses his White House aides of helping fuel negative narratives and failing to defend her against right-wing attacks
Trump ends security protection for Kamala Harris, according to White House
Ex-presidential contender’s six-month security detail after leaving office extended to one year under Joe Biden
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