US politics Articles

Tonight sees the long awaited release of the third series of Kevin Spacey’s ‘House of Cards’ adaptation (note: ‘series’ not ‘season’). Expect little to be done in Westminster this weekend as political obsessives indulge their fascination with the politics of the US. I...

How do you write a memoir that you want to be both a bestseller and yet not have any political hostages to fortune? ‘Relatively easily’ would seem to be the answer if you are Hillary Rodham Clinton whose new tome, Hard Choices, pulls the curtain back on her time as...

Despite the upsets, the Democrats may have done just enough to secure victory in the presidential race By Matthew Doyle —Ever since Henry Kissinger’s announcement of a peace deal in Vietnam just before the 1972 presidential election, politicians have lived in fear of...

This week’s employment figures are puzzling economists because of the unusual combination of big rises in employment, falling unemployment and flat growth. Employment is up 212,000 to reach 71.3 per cent, an impressive increase of 0.5 percentage points in just one...