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

The sequester is a great opportunity for Obama

It's impossible to be a great president

I went to see a franchise horror movie hoping for mind-emptying mayhem. What I got was a shoddy dig at US domestic politics

Australia goes to the polls on 2nd March. Paul Keating's Labour Party came from behind in 1993. It might do so again. Nicolas Rothwell saw the Labour leader finding his voice in the Blue Mountains

The frantic swings in American political life over the past five years have perplexed the world. Martin Walker sees them as symptoms of a bigger shift in the balance of power following the end of the...