Donald Trump saw off one contender, but Ted Cruz and John Kasich fight on. Where will it end?
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Speaking to The Atlantic, the president didn’t leave anything out – except the bit where thousands died and millions lost their homes.
Donald Trump is the perfect candidate for an unregulated, competition-driven political news media.
The US’s seventh president was a populist the establishment tried to lock out of the White House. Sound familiar?
Primaries are the ultimate American invention. Unfortunately, they are a terrible invention – they actually destroy the political system.
The media and political establishment have been ready to write off Bernie Sanders for some time. Not so fast.
A lead poisoning crisis caused by corroded pipes has made Flint, Michigan a symbol of American inequality.
The impact of a Trump presidency is basically unknown. No serious candidate in the post-second world war period has been so unclear in their attitude to foreign policy.
Hillary Clinton epitomises women’s shifting place in the American polity – and her struggles to win over younger women reflect that.
Our global newsroom responds to the Super Tuesday primary results in the race for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees.
One outsider movement candidate ran riot, while another seemingly crumpled.
If more Democrats living abroad had voted in 2000, Al Gore might have become president.
It’s easy to dismiss the Republican contest as a parochial brawl, but one of its belligerents could be the world’s most powerful person.
Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States. Wanna bet?
The votes in South Carolina’s presidential primaries are once again expected to fall along racial lines.
Every time Las Vegas looks like it’s about to die, it demolishes itself and rebuilds as something bigger and better.
When Pope Francis issued his unexpected on the Republican frontrunner, he did little to make the choice facing American Catholics any easier.
Dirty tricks are a big part of the south’s first presidential primary.
President Obama’s opponents are saying he should leave the choice of a Supreme Court justice to his successor. But that could leave the nation’s highest court in limbo.
With the results in, Trump stands proudly on top of what looks like a five-way car crash. What now?
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