The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s second term.

S ome countries assign citizenship on the basis of blood or length of residency. America does not. Since 1868, when the 14th ...

F OR MANY Britons sticky toffee pudding conjures memories of school dinners. Grown men treat its discovery on menus with ...

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has one clear advantage over his co-belligerent. Unlike Donald Trump, his public ...

In 2013, a year after he took the party’s helm, its central organisation department—sometimes described as the world’s most ...

W hen it comes to dealing with Iran, the Donald Trump of 1987 offers helpful advice to the Donald Trump of today. In “The Art ...

The private-credit party looks like it might be over. After the global financial crisis of 2007-09, non-bank lenders nabbed ...

For all the clamour, Britain is good at absorbing immigrants and allowing them to thrive. A government determined to harass ...

Social-media use damages young people’s mental health and generative artificial intelligence is now eroding their ability to think. The anxiety is understandable. AI tools have spread through teenage ...

Gold is different. It emanates no cashflows. Its smattering of real-world uses, in jewellery-making or electronics, hardly ...

Cortical Labs uses human brain cells attached to silicon chips to create biological computers that could offer energy ...

Xi Jinping faces a massive leadership reshuffle across China's Communist Party and state apparatus, with hundreds of ...