US politics Articles

Up till now it seemed as if Conquest’s third law of politics – that the simplest way to explain the behaviour of any organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies – applied most readily to the Trump campaign. Surely only a Democratic...

The disaster facing the Republicans shows what happens when a major political party becomes dysfunctional. Donald Trump's eccentric campaign – to say the least – is in danger of falling off a cliff. His numerous gaffes and insults now see him tanking in the polls...

‘Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious.’ So wrote the celebrated Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu in The Art of War. An analogous maxim for the political arena could well be, ‘Those who know when to debate and when not to debate win...

Hillary Clinton may yet show that precedents are there to be broken, writes Robert Philpot It was once an apparently iron law of American politics that you could not make it to the White House without first winning the New Hampshire primary. Not everybody who managed...