Yesterday
Joe Biden seizes on opportunity in Trump’s guilty verdict
Donald Trump is a “convicted felon” who would “destroy our justice system, shred our democracy and attack the very idea of America”, according to the Biden camp.
- James Politi
April
- Analysis
- US election
With Trump in court, can Biden take control of the election?
As polls show the race tied, the president is campaigning around the country and his opponent is stuck spending his days in a Manhattan courtroom.
- James Politi, Lauren Fedor and Joe Miller
January
- Opinion
- US election
What makes Nikki Haley tougher than the rest
She grew up in the only Indian American family in a small working-class South Carolina town.
- David Brooks
September 2023
Retiring Romney urges Trump, Biden to quit for younger leaders
The moderate Republican senator’s call came as he announced he would not seek re-election next year.
- Annie Karni
August 2023
- Analysis
- World politics
The Donald Trump show: will the legal chaos help or hinder?
Americans should brace themselves for a campaign defined by the former president’s court appearances and his claims of victimhood and persecution.
- James Politi
June 2023
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump has officially broken the Republican Party
With work, luck and pluck, Democrats and independents can repel the GOP. But they can’t reform it. Only Republicans can do that.
- Francis Wilkinson
March 2023
Republican leader McConnell hospitalised after fall
The 81-year-old Senate Republican leader is expected to remain in hospital for a few days after suffering a concussion in a fall at a dinner event in Washington.
- Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro
July 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Coalition will find salvation only in the political centre
For all the political post-mortems, the simple lesson of this year’s election is that Australian voters do not like divisive politics.
- Anthony Liveris
April 2022
Why Australia is the talk of the town in Washington
The US is going out of its way to strengthen military, diplomatic and academic bonds with Australia as geopolitical tensions rise, especially in the Indo-Pacific.
- Matthew Cranston
December 2021
Lawmakers past and present honour Bob Dole’s ‘extraordinary life’
President Joe Biden said one of his first conversations with someone outside the White House following his inauguration was with Dole, whom he regarded as a longtime friend.
- Matthew Brown
GOP risks government shutdown to fight vaccine mandate
Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate who are opposed to Mr Biden’s vaccine rules want Congress to take a hardline stand against the mandated shots.
- Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking
February 2021
- Opinion
- Trump impeachment
Mitt Romney is the model for a new Republican party
If there is a future for US conservatism beyond hot-tempered quackery, Romney points the way. What marks him out as an agent for change is that he does not stop at a moral stand against Trump.
- Janan Ganesh
January 2021
Trump conviction unlikely as Republicans rally against trial
The Senate narrowly killed a Republican effort to dismiss impeachment proceeding as unconstitutional but the numbers make Trump’s conviction seem unlikely.
- Nicholas Fandos
Impeachment goes to Senate, testing Trump’s hold over GOP
Republican denunciations of Donald Trump have cooled since the January 6 riot. Instead, Republicans are presenting a tangle of legal arguments against the legitimacy of the trial.
- Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick
Joe Biden acts swiftly to wipe away the Trump era
There are huge challenges ahead for the new president, including resistance from businesses to his taxation, regulation and minimum wage-hike agenda.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Trump's America
The American republic’s near-death experience
Donald Trump failed. However, if US politics unfolds as seems likely, there will be more Trumps. One of them, more competent – and ruthless – may succeed.
- Martin Wolf
- Analysis
- US votes 2020
Could McConnell’s signal to Republicans open floodgates against Trump?
The outgoing Majority Leader is ready to wash his hands of Trump and he might just see the impeachment process as a ready-made solvent.
- David Catanese
- Opinion
- US election
The nightmarish end to Donald Trump’s presidency
Four years after Trump warned of “American carnage” in his inaugural address, he got what he wanted. The scenes of insurrectionists, some of them armed, ransacking Congress will go down in infamy in American democracy.
- Edward Luce
December 2020
- Analysis
- Coronavirus pandemic
Here's what Trump's post-presidency looks like
The past week served as a preview of Donald Trump’s post-presidency: no leadership on debates within his party, but keen attention to waging personal vendettas and cultivating his supporters.
- Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin
US Congress to vote on stopgap supply to keep COVID-19 aid talks alive
Both sides are under mounting pressure to keep the government open and deliver a fresh infusion of coronavirus aid to families and businesses reeling from a pandemic that has killed 282,000 people.
- David Morgan and Susan Cornwell
