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Freezing of US borders neutralises Trump’s anti-immigrant charms

US politics: Still unclear what Trump wants to do with second term as election day looms

Fintan O’Toole: Trump has not sacrificed himself for his people. Quite the opposite

If Aids was Trump’s Vietnam, Covid-19 is his director’s cut of Apocalypse Now

Lots on the line as Joe Biden moves to select his potential VP

America Letter: Democratic candidate believed to have Kamala Harris at top of list

Americans should not count on a quiet life under Joe Biden

US Politics: Democratic candidate could be the most radical US president in decades

Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still

British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events

Sanders and Warren expose false choice between diversity and welfare

US Politics: The American left’s heroes used to lace reforms with a measure of nativism

Boris Johnson has the charm and depth of an overcooked souffle

Jennifer O’Connell: Unfortunately, sometimes terrifyingly, we often get leaders we deserve

The Blunden sisters: Last of the great adventurers

Sisters Caroline and Jane are selling the contents of Castle Blunden, their family home

Punchestown Festival: Jumps jockey greats turn 40 but look far from done

Walsh, Russell and Geraghty can continue for years with advances in conditioning

CNN sues White House over revoked credentials of correspondent

Network files lawsuit after Jim Acosta banned following spat with Donald Trump

Democrats should learn from Mitch McConnell – even as they abhor him

US Politics: Developing trend of Democratic Party suggests a certain innocence

Long shadow of Civil War politics falls on McCain memorial debate

America Letter: Proposal to rename building taps into broader cultural debate

Populism was not sparked by the financial crisis

Janan Ganesh: The crash just brought to the surface what was already extant and pumping

The Trump Doctrine has no support – even in the White House

US Politics: President’s foreign policy will last no longer than the time he remains in office

Fearful farmers are ‘the tip of the spear’ in Trump’s trade wars

Donald Trump won 70% of the vote in parts of Kansas. Is that support under threat?

Bryan Cranston: ‘I was going to become a police officer’

Bryan Cranston had a solid career as a jobbing actor for three decades, then ‘Breaking Bad’ happened

US politics: the lessons of Alabama

Victory for Doug Jones does not necessarily herald triumph for Democrats in next year’s midterms

Presidential libraries are uniquely American. Will the next be uniquely Trumpian?

America Letter: LBJ’s covered Vietnam, Nixon’s Watergate; Obama’s is wholly digital

JFK files reveal Oswald’s Soviet links and tip-off to British newspaper

CIA and FBI demand some documents in Kennedy records should be held back

Kennedy assassination controversy to reignite with release of classified papers

White House may hold back some documents for national-security reasons

Trump vows to 'totally destroy' law on religion and politics

US president pledges to ‘destroy’ law preventing political activity by churches

Close but no cigar: How America failed to kill Fidel Castro

From toxic pens to poisoned milkshake, security men calculate 634 failed murder plots

Obama and Trump leave insults behind in awkward first encounter

President and successor show a unified front as they begin formal handover of power

Georgia on her mind: Can Hillary take southern state?

Polls show Democrats' candidate putting Georgia in play for first time in 24 years

Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, David Hare and more on the rise of Donald Trump

A selection of writers pick the books that best make sense of the US election, and the ones that predicted the rise of a Trump-style candidate

Clinton casts herself as the unifier against polarising Trump

Democrat issues call to unity as US faces ‘a moment of reckoning’ in November

GOP Smacked: Simon Carswell’s Republican convention diary

Hillary Clinton goes nuclear on Donald Trump as Stephen Colbert hijacks podium

Republican ticket likely to come down to horse-trading in Cleveland

A contested convention may see unusual tactics to win over unbound party delegates

Nancy Reagan’s ‘style and grace’ remembered at funeral

Michelle Obama and George W Bush among the mourners at California ceremony

Maureen Dowd: Hillary Clinton’s messages failing to connect

Hillary’s campaign cries sexism too often and pales when compared to Bernie Sanders

Fintan O’Toole's 2015: The importance of being inconclusive

I’m not sure we learn anything from the arts – except that we need them more than ever

State of the Union: memorable moments from US presidents

Centrepiece speech of US political year a tradition started by George Washington in 1790

‘Selma’ version of Lyndon B Johnson is a dangerous distortion

Film-makers have a responsibility to be accurate about race, the US’s original sin

America Letter: Martin Luther King’s children fight over legacy

Civil right activist’s family embroiled in court battle over his Nobel prize medal and Bible

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

Lisa Dwan’s series of performances was startling

Invisible wealthy keep inequality shrouded

The truly rich are so removed from ordinary people’s lives that we never see what they have

Don’t expect any real stuff in W’s late paean to Dad

Is Bush biography a bid to exorcise the ghosts of all who died for no reason?

Irish actors Chris O’Dowd and Sarah Greene nominated for Tony Awards

‘Outside Mullingar’ nominated for best play

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