Democratic Party

Move aims to flip five Democratic-held house seats to Republican control in next year’s midterms

Evan Osnos shows how social media is at the core of Republicans’ drive to destroy human empathy with maximum misinformation and minimum civil discourse

I find myself packing pepper spray again

DC mayor strikes conciliatory note but other Democratic leaders warn president against expanding law-and-order power grab

Decision to dispatch National Guard welcomed by supporters; others suspect operation is attempt to deflect questions about Epstein

State governor calls for arrests after exodus of Democratic lawmakers seeks to block Republican Bill that would redraw electoral districts

Once an advocate of US soft power, the secretary of state is implementing Maga values from isolationism to impatience with foreign aid

The passage of the Bill leads to massive, ugly tax cuts for American aristocrats

Frances Ballantyne, an Irish-American who was 94 when we became friends in New York, rubbed shoulders with Kathy Bates, James Baldwin and local wiseguys, but these were mere side notes in a rich life

Critics on the left and the right have taken issue with the effects the Bill will have on the US’s already considerable national debt

He managed to motivate tens of thousands of canvassers to knock on more than a million doors

The United States’ official puritanism sits uneasily with a wider nation that can be more creatively profane than any other in the Anglosphere

Politicians like Holly Cairns or Keir Starmer could meet the threat of the populist right with a lighter tone and a joke or two

Socialist candidate (33) upsets Andrew Cuomo with clever campaign promising rent control

Socialist challenger has come from nowhere to rival Andrew Cuomo in New York’s mayoral race

The former opponent of forever wars in the Middle East is debating dropping bombs there without military provocation against the US

Vance Luther Boelter (57) identified as suspect who allegedly killed Democrat and her husband

Authorities are searching for an assailant who officials say was impersonating a police officer and shot at officers

California senator handcuffed after attempting to ask Kristi Noem a question

I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property

White House said earlier that a call had been scheduled between the feuding US president and Tesla chief

The former US soldier denies any role in the killing and dismemberment of the Co Kerry farmer

The ill health of US presidents has been kept from journalists on a number of occasions

News of Biden‘s cancer diagnosis brings temporary civility amid fallout from new book on Democrats’ inaction over his cognitive decline

US president’s proposed pharma price cuts and tax increases for the rich echo policies of progressive Democrats

Individualised experiences are supplanting the traditional mass media approach

These propaganda dissemination sessions are more suited to Pyongyang

As he reaches the 100th day of his second term, President Trump can point to few policy successes

Mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, Abrego Garcia remains in prison while Republicans and Democrats argue over what the case says about where the US is going under Donald Trump

Cody Balmer (38) allegedly slipped over a fence carrying incendiary devices and evaded state troopers for long enough to start fire

Warning signs that this was where American was headed have been there since the days of the Tea Party and Glenn Beck

‘Liberation Day’: The fallout from Trump’s scorched earth economic protectionist policy

State election has become most expensive judicial race in US history as Tesla boss spends unprecedented amount

DUP leader Gavin Robinson says installation of signage is ‘clearly a controversial matter’

Claim by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made to look absurd during gruelling hearing

The Irish approach to foreign policy should not be to exaggerate our purity or indulge dictators, but neither should we parrot criticisms of our neutrality from miliary aligned states

The Oval Office 2025 has become a fascinating and volatile court, so the Taoiseach might expect one or two curveballs coming his way

President offers up shocks and promises, riddled with exaggerations and factual inaccuracies, during address to Congress

The US is not yet a fascist society, but acting as if it is risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy

Senator is staging a loud and constant resistance as his party struggles to respond to the US president