Mississippi’s miraculous midterm mirrors a national story
Scott Colom seemed to be pushing against an impossible weight of history, but through a celever and relentless campaign, he prevailed
Thomas Massie’s lonely revolt against Trump reaches its final act
Kentucky Republican’s failed attempt to impeach Pete Hegseth underlined his political isolation and his refusal to submit to the party line
Is Chuck Schumer the Democratic Party’s dynamic future or its ineffectual past?
Senate leader is battling a growing perception that the party needs a new generation of leaders in wake of midterms success
Hegseth solders himself to Trump in the face of impeachment resolution vote ‘circus’
Secretary of defence gets ‘PLUS, PLUS, PLUS’ from US president who continues to insist he has no plans of axing him
‘We outvoted the billionaires’: What comes next after the US midterm elections?
A deafening electoral roar swept from coast to coast with the speed of a prairie fire on Tuesday, but can the Democrats’ decisive win put America’s ghosts to rest?
The lights begin to go out on Donald Trump’s volatile and frequently terrifying reign
JD Vance blames Iran war in what seemed a blatant distancing from a president who has demanded blind loyalty
‘America is back’: Trump and his Maga movement take an unholy caning
US election is an irrepressible demonstration of the democratic process after two years of black warnings about repression of US democracy
Trump proclaims ‘golden age’ while US midterm polls are flashing historical defeats
President ends bitter and expensive midterm campaign claiming: ‘This is the golden age of America’
Race narrows between a ‘radical Democrat’ and ‘the most corrupt politician in Texas’
Senate seat battle between James Talarico and Ken Paxton is set to become the most expensive non-presidential political race in US history
‘That okey-doke will not work this time’: Obama takes up mic to duel with tired-sounding Trump
Just days before US midterm elections described by both parties as the most important in living memory, there are signs Donald Trump may be headed for a humbling that seemed unimaginable when he swept back to power
Mississippi turning? Democrats point to Republican ‘panic’ as Donald Trump flies in
No Democrat has won a senate seat in Mississippi since 1982 but with momentum building behind Scott Colom in advance of the midterms, the US president decided to pay a visit
‘Turnout has sort of drained’: Democrats battle to mobilise Georgia’s black voters
Rev Al Sharpton warns of an epidemic of ‘amnesia’ over the struggles of the civil rights generation
Can 2,000 people in a hangar in Sioux City influence the US midterms? Trump is banking on it
In another turbulent week for the Republican Party, including controversy over a ‘deeply troubling’ ad in Ohio, Donald Trump went to a pocket of Iowa and felt the love
Branded ‘lazy’ by Trump, a Democrat is mounting an unexpected challenge in a Republican stronghold
Democrat Josh Turek is mounting an unexpected challenge in Iowa, a traditional Republican bastion
Can an everyday Methodist pastor create a political miracle in Kansas?
Polls suggest Democrat Adam Hamilton is on the cusp of a sensational Senate win amid Republican disillusionment with Trump