US presidential elections

Critics saw the strange spectacle as evidence of his cognitive decline. To me, it felt like witnessing a politician who has done away with the pretence of politics

Appearance by Democratic Party’s ageless daystar of liberty at Pittsburgh rally was a wistful look back at past that seemed infinite with hope

Whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the presidency in November, Ireland will not be much of a priority

Flamboyantly styled women from an insular North Carolina church have been photographed at countless Trump rallies since 2016

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Unthinkable: Politicians who tell lies have an advantage because of what psychologists call the ‘false consensus effect’

Ryan Routh due to appear at a hearing on gun charges following an incident at the former president’s Florida golf course on September 15th

Harris and Trump debated each other on September 10th, in contest that polls showed was won by the Democratic nominee

Communication breakdowns with local police and a ‘lack of diligence’ preceding July assassination attempt on presidential candidate are cited

Sunday’s attempt – the second in two months – adds further to the already heightened tension

Challenge for the Federal Reserve chairman is oversee a soft landing for economy as presidential election looms

Trump Media & Technology Group operates Truth Social platform and counts the former presidential as its top shareholder

US vice-president shifted attention back onto Trump as an unhinged, felonious, authoritarian, racist and sexist former president

Singer also addressed AI images shared by Trump which falsely depicted her endorsing his campaign

Donald Trump made false and misleading claims about immigrants ‘eating the pets’, and Central Park Five

PwC conference hears of impending tax cliff in US and how upcoming election will determine US tax policy for years to come

The presidential nominees are set to face off on Tuesday night in Philadelphia in their first – and perhaps only – debate

In the News podcast

In the News podcast

The politician who accepted her party’s nomination on Thursday night did so with impressive confidence

Maureen Dowd: Handprints of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on Biden’s back

US vice-president outlines proposals to cut taxes for most Americans if she wins White House

‘I think I’m entitled to personal attacks’: Trump levels same false claims he typically unleashes on campaign trail

Republicans pride themselves on sticking to the American normal. That’s why the Democrats’ strategy is hitting them exactly where it hurts

It is a monumental task, but the early signs have bowled Democrats over and a fresh gust of elation has swept through the party

Harris is surfing the huge wave of relief and renewed excitement which has swept across her party since Joe Biden’s withdrawal

To watch a good man, a remarkably effective president and a courageous battler against adversity reduced to such frailty was unbearable

When I reviewed Hillbilly Elegy, the film based on JD Vance’s memoir, I didn’t anticipate its potential to become one of the few movies to change history

Cape May, an east coast seaside town once crawling with Irish J1 students, is now overrun with Airbnb properties

In the News podcast: Irish Times Washington Correspondent Keith Duggan discusses the implications of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life

Donald Trump is more symptom than cause, but that won’t matter when he is unleashed on the White House

Wisdom, that great compensation for the vanished stamina of youth, seems to have bypassed the US president

Media coverage of Jill Biden as the last bulwark against the authoritarian nightmare of Trump is exactly the kind of thing that - rightly - puts voters off

The president failed to disprove the widespread perception that he is too old to serve a second four-year term

I just don’t like how it feels in America today, writes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Germans worry about immigration, Poles about Ukraine, Danish and French about climate change, and the British about Covid

Jacob Heilbrunn’s exploration of the history of US authoritarianism makes it clear the re-election of Trump would turbo-charge the forces of fascism

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

‘I’m a grown man running against a six-year-old,’ president tells Washington DC gathering

Former president calls for debates with Joe Biden ahead of the November election