The Capitol riots are the latest horrifying example of the division Trump has stoked over the past four years. But it won't be healed by the President leaving office

The inequality baked into contemporary US capitalism is warping America’s society and politics, explains Nobel laureate Angus Deaton. Joe Biden’s administration is bursting with inequality experts, but what chance do they really stand of fixing the problem?

Longer living can open up more possibilities for all of us

Shinzō Abe failed to overhaul Japan's pacifist constitution but the country will continue build its military might

Some American problems are more fundamental than the identity of the commander-in-chief

The president hopes Americans focus on his economic record but it is nothing to celebrate

Any sustained move in the world's pre-eminent currency has implications for your strategy

And all the while, the election clock ticks down

Two tribes, Trump and the State of an imperilled Union

We still have hope for the future of the great American experiment

After the long stand-off against communism, victory seemed as total as it was sudden. But the west has since fractured and is now losing prestige and influence—does the reversal expose a moral defeat?

Don't imagine that America's creaking electoral machinery will facilitate an orderly transfer of power