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Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make…

Past politicians tried to undermine democracy. They failed because Americans refused to tolerate their wrongdoing

Other lives: Professor of geography at UCL who was an expert on risk and the social implications of a hypermobile world

Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and John Roberts love women’s autonomy if it avoids awkward conflict-of-interest questions

In Franklin episode 7, Benjamin pushes hard to include France in America's negotiations with Britain, much to Jay and Adam's dismay. Here's what happened.

In Franklin episode 5, Franklin and John Adams annoy each other and Temple gets involved in the revolution in a new way.

The opera met with a mixed response on its 2017 premiere. After two reworkings, and with many of its original cast reprising their roles, this premiere recording is a rich and energetic mix

The actor on playing Amy Winehouse’s dad, leaving school at 15, and why he loves going back to London’s East End

The Republican contender lowered the tone of electoral politics in 2016 – now the Democratic president has left the high road to take him on at his own game

Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down

In an all-American programme, works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelation