Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren’t just hostile to progressivism. They’re hostile to American democracy itself The Guardian - US · Jun 3, 2024
Biden’s record on the economy is good but voters don’t feel it. Character, not policy, is key to victory The economy is doing well – far better than under Trump – but Democrats must ask voters if they want a sociopathic infant with fascist tendencies The Guardian - US · May 22, 2024
The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot The former president’s orbit is a sell-or-tell, catch-and-kill society where money and power are the only true values The Guardian - US · May 16, 2024
I remember the 1960s crackdowns against war protesters. This is a repeat The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of re-emerging as memories fade The Guardian - US · May 5, 2024
Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks The Guardian - US · Apr 23, 2024
The death of the Republican party is not a tragedy to be celebrated Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it – Donald Trump has finished the job The Guardian - US · Apr 19, 2024
Companies are using inflation to price-gouge Americans – and making it worse Thanks to near-monopolies in many industries, corporations are seeing record profits as consumers struggle with high prices The Guardian - US · Apr 11, 2024
Want to make it in the Republican party? Pledge allegiance to the Big Lie After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty The Guardian - US · Mar 28, 2024
My feeling about this presidential election? Nauseous optimism The outcome of this fight will set the course for the US and the world for decades – and it is winnable The Guardian - US · Mar 13, 2024
Here’s what Joe Biden should say in his State of the Union address Instead of telling Americans the economy is great – which many won’t believe – he must tell them the truth of where the gains are going The Guardian - US · Mar 7, 2024
The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy Alabama’s supreme court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’ is a chilling example of the Republican party’s extremism The Guardian - US · Feb 23, 2024
Yes, Trump is dominating the primaries. That doesn’t mean he’ll beat Biden Why is the media making such a big deal of this? Trump will be the nominee, but the general election is a different matter The Guardian - US · Jan 23, 2024
Jamie Dimon thinks Trump was ‘kind of right’ about a lot of things. What? The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, America’s largest and most powerful bank, is defending Trump’s record. This is absurd The Guardian - US · Jan 21, 2024
As the election looms, we must be alert to Trump’s threats of vigilante justice There is a direct and alarming link between Trump’s political rise and the increase in political violence and threats in America The Guardian - US · Jan 19, 2024
The Guardian - US · Jan 12, 2024 Republicans make wild claims about the dangers of immigration. Here’s the truth Trump and his cronies are leaning into five splashy talking points about illegal immigration. But the actual facts are a bit different
The Guardian - US · Jan 6, 2024 The five truths Trump hopes you will forget about 6 January 2021 The US Capitol attack was a shameful event in US history, yet Americans remain confused and divided about what occurred
The Guardian - US · Jan 3, 2024 Powerful donors managed to push out Harvard’s Claudine Gay. But at what cost? Not until now have major donors so brazenly used their financial influence to hound presidents out of office
The Guardian - US · Jan 2, 2024 Here are 10 new year resolutions for saving American democracy If you want to do something positive this 2024, devote your energy to fighting the very real possibility of a second Trump presidency
The Guardian - US · Dec 31, 2023 Mainstream media is playing into Trump’s neo-fascist hands. I’m sticking with democracy and the Guardian I trust the Guardian to illuminate what’s really happening as America faces an election in which one of the two likely candidates engaged in an attempted coup
The Guardian - US · Dec 12, 2023 Academic freedom is the loser when big donors hound US university presidents The leaders of Harvard, Penn and MIT should have clearly condemned calls for genocide but the response has been almost as repugnant
The Guardian - US · Dec 11, 2023 We need to talk about the United States’ mental health crisis – and its larger causes The suicide rate is at its highest since 1941. In addition to a stronger safety net, we must face hard truths about US society
The Guardian - US · Nov 28, 2023 The frantic battle over OpenAI shows that money triumphs in the end Private businesses, motivated by profit, can’t be relied on to police themselves against the horrors unfettered AI could bring
The Guardian - US · Nov 21, 2023 Billionaires are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s anti-democratic agenda The more disturbing Trump’s public proclamations become, the more US plutocrats seem to want him to win
The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2023 Is the pendulum of power swinging towards US unions? The United Auto Workers have scored a major victory. And it could be a sign of more to come for workers – unless the Fed undermines them again
The Guardian - US · Oct 3, 2023 Is the fever of Trumpism starting to break? Americans should feel encouraged by the tenacity of judges and prosecutors in holding Trump accountable