It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

The Conservatives have survived the last four months as the only opposition party with a credible claim to be able to lead an alternative government. These facts may prove to be far more significant ...

Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

The American people have rejected their own democracy, embracing a man who previously sought to annul their votes. They have formalised post-truth, determining that mendacity is no bar to public ...

The most viral moment of this summer’s Olympics in Paris—even ahead of Raygun—may have been its most difficult to parse. In the boxing ring stood two fighters, one in red, one in blue. Not many ...

There was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls.

American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...

For some Americans, the motive behind their vote was best expressed in a poster, visible in the western Pennsylvania countryside last week, which read “Trump, God and Guns”. But for many others, the ...

What is alarming about Donald Trump’s return to the White House is not just that he won the presidency, but how he won it. In the closing months of the campaign, the conventional political ...

After weeks of guesswork, Alan and Lionel are joined by the man behind Tortoise Media, James Harding, and journalist Carole Cadwalladr, to get the inside scoop on Tortoise’s bid for the Observer After ...