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  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    ExplainerUS politics & policy
    What is in the US debt ceiling deal?

    Democrats and Republicans have made compromises to head off a damaging default

  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    John Burn-Murdoch
    Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it

    The US brand of national conservatism fails to resonate in the UK because it is a fundamentally different society

  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    McCarthy’s big test: keeping Republicans unified in debt ceiling battle

    House Speaker has kept his party behind him so far, but pressure has grown as deadline for a potential default nears

  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    US politics & policy
    White House and Republicans struggle to make headway in debt ceiling talks

    Both sides agree to continue discussions as deadline for potential default grows closer

  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    Maverick Joe Manchin on shaky ground in coal country over climate

    The Democrat has failed to convince conservative West Virginians that Biden’s clean energy subsidies will help them

  • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    America is hurt by its debt ceiling theatre of the absurd

    The only reason a default is conceivable is the depth of disagreement in the country

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    US politics & policy
    White House and Republicans start to shape debt ceiling deal

    Scope of agreement begins to emerge as talks intensify in bid to avoid unprecedented national default

  • Monday, 8 May, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Political calculus complicates path to US debt ceiling deal

    Biden refuses Republican preconditions for raising $31tn borrowing cap ahead of White House talks

  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
    US presidential election 2024
    Biden urges Wall Street donors to fill $1bn-plus campaign war chest

    Backers say president will have an incumbent’s advantage in fundraising but see concerns about his age and popularity

  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    Democrats torn over absence of 89-year-old senator Dianne Feinstein

    Prolonged illness makes it harder for Joe Biden’s party to push through legislation and appointees

  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    The indictment of Donald Trump
    Trump attacks ‘election interference’ after historic criminal charges

    Former US president hits out at prosecution as Republicans criticise indictment as short on substance

  • Monday, 3 April, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Progressive and centrist Democrats clash in Chicago mayoral race

    The party dominating politics in America’s third-largest city is offering two very different visions

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    US politics & policy
    SVB collapse exposes fresh divisions over US banking reform

    Lawmakers from both parties at odds over future legislation to shore up the financial system

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Republicans attack Democrats for dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory

    New assessment from US energy department has given more credence to theory of the origin of Covid

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    US Democrats battle to rally black voters in 2024

    African-Americans in crucial ‘purple’ states are increasingly frustrated by issues such as policing and voting reform

  • Saturday, 11 February, 2023
    Interview
    Jim Clyburn says he sees ‘no reason’ for Biden to step aside in 2024

    Influential South Carolina Democrat dismissed concerns about the president’s age

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    Feisty Biden draws battle lines in State of the Union speech

    President locks horns with Republicans and sketches out appeal to voters with 2024 election looming

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    US budget
    Biden and McCarthy express willingness to continue talks over US debt ceiling

    President and House Speaker remain at odds over how to avoid default after first face-to-face meeting

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Joe Biden
    Democrats scramble to limit fallout from Biden documents debacle

    Furore over handling of classified material has rattled run-up to expected 2024 presidential bid

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    FT Swamp Notes
    Kevin McCarthy and the crisis of Republican governance Premium content

    Democrats were once the party ‘in love’ with ideological purity. The shoe is on the other foot

  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    ExplainerUS Senate
    First-time senators take their seats as Democrats maintain slim majority

    A hoodie-wearing stroke survivor, a Trump-backed author and an ex-mixed martial arts fighter are among the newcomers

  • Sunday, 25 December, 2022
    News in-depthJoe Biden
    Biden confounds critics by ending tough year on a high note

    Positive news on the economy, legislative agenda and global affairs sets up president for re-election bid

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    US politics & policy
    US senator Kyrsten Sinema breaks with Democratic party

    Decision to register as an independent deals blow to Joe Biden’s party after success in midterm elections

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    News in-depthUS midterm elections
    ‘Worth the wait’: Georgia run-off result cements Democratic Senate gains

    Win for Raphael Warnock strengthens US party’s hold on upper chamber and prompts Republican hand-wringing

  • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
    Edward Luce
    America’s shipwrecked working class

    ‘Union Joe’ Biden is not quite the deliverer he vowed to be

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