Hillary Clinton gave a commanding performance last night but she has yet to face a strong opposition

Footage of the tragic shooting of two TV journalists in Virginia is doing the rounds online

An encounter with one of the great Sixties "muses of asperity"

Francis Fukuyama does two things in his latest book, "Political Order and Political Decay," a sequel of sorts to "The Origins of Political Order," which was published in 2011: first, he offers a...

The former US Secretary of State argues that the west is struggling to advance its causes

The most significant revelation of this week's State of the Union address was that as much as the Republicans hate Obama, they hate each other even more

And… breathe. The craziness in the US Congress has abated, for now at least. The debt ceiling issue has technically only been deferred, not solved, even though senior Republicans have indicated...

It’s a bleak portrait that George Packer presents of the United States (p20), crippled to the point of standstill, apparently, by its own constitution, a text which it has offered to the world for...

Jeb Bush is running for president—already

The historian Garry Wills has written better than anybody else about modern America