Trump will be the 44th man to take to the inaugural podium. Very few have left a mark on it.
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The first presidency began with a mandate to make America great. What’s changed?
Crucially, President Obama has commuted Manning’s sentence without pardoning her.
State killings are the latest demonstration of the country’s regression.
A look at the recent Supreme Court battle over priority use of wheelchair spaces on buses and what it really means for disabled people.
Self-determination, freedom of thought, choice of risk arguably have freed society, but then there’s inequality, ill-health and narcissism.
Research has shed new light on whether we prefer policies that would benefit ourselves or our descendants.
After Brexit, Theresa May says the UK will ‘take back control of our laws’.
British business will be hoping that, by shrouding herself in the Union Jack, Theresa May has not overplayed her hand.
International law should include an offence of ‘creating a famine’.
Going in with all guns blazing is not really how Europe does business – but that’s never stopped Britain.
As Putin’s Russia flexes its muscles, there are concerns over the future of the alliance without US leadership.
A small bronze statue in Busan has kicked off a surprisingly big argument.
With a second Scottish referendum ‘all but inevitable’, here’s a strange pill for the nationalists to swallow.
There’s a whole system of checks and balances in place to stop a president like Trump going too far.
Three key rulings by the UK Supreme Court and their legal implications.
The PM is overestimating Brexit Britain’s place in the world as she boldly strides out of the single market.
The UK prime minister is squaring up to European negotiators in pledging a hard Brexit. But is she overplaying her hand?
UK diplomats are thoroughly briefed on the pitfalls that could trap them on overseas service.
What was already an uneasy alliance first turned sour, and then utterly disintegrated. Where did it all go wrong?
The world may feel polarised, but most people chop and change their views.
Decades – even centuries – have gone into building the diplomatic protocols on which we all rely. Is all that work being undone?
The ‘hero’ of one year can prove to be the villain of later ones.
Plenty of African states bristle at the rest of the world’s eagerness to prosecute crimes committed on the continent. Some are finding other ways to do it.
Autistic defendants and prisoners are suffering at the hands of an out of date criminal justice system.