Obama's immigration drive
- 01 Feb 2013 00:00 - Ed Pilkington
- Barack Obama has been bent on opening a pathway to citizenship for foreigners, even illegal ones.
Obama 2.0 takes no prisoners
- 25 Jan 2013 00:00 - Ewen MacAskill
- Republicans feel snubbed by the US president's combative inauguration speech. Ewen MacAskill reports.
Republicans throw down gauntlet over Rice
- 30 Nov 2012 00:00 - Ewen MacAskill
- Republican senators have opened the way for a new showdown with United States President Barack Obama.
Republicans sank Romney
- 09 Nov 2012 00:00 - Simon Tisdall
- Democrats of all stripes and colours rallied behind Barack Obama. Hard-line Republicans betrayed Mitt Romney. And so he lost.
Struggling whites are more likely to follow Republicans blindly
- 02 Nov 2012 00:00 - Gary Younge
- Studies show that Americans believe the economy is important, but they largely still vote according to race and class. Gary Younge reports.
Romney downplays positive job gains by Democrats
- 06 Oct 2012 07:03 - Sapa-AFP
- Mitt Romney charged ahead with his economic arguments in spite of unemployment dropping to its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office.
US elections: Republican laws block black voters
- 24 Aug 2012 07:42 - Rowan Philp
- The Republican party has made it almost impossible for millions of black and Hispanic Americans to get the IDs they need to vote in November.
Mitt Romney's 'fiscally frugal' running mate
- 17 Aug 2012 14:16 - Paul Harris
- When it came to the biggest decision of his run Romney defied his stereotype as cautious politician eager to please an audience he's speaking to.
Paul Ryan and the share trading scandal
- 17 Aug 2012 14:15 - Dominic Rushe
- The US vice-presidential candidate has denied he profited from a 2008 meeting with the Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke.
Obama will survive Democrat defeat
- 08 Jun 2012 00:01 - Gary Younge
- Organised labour has learnt a valuable lesson in its challenge against Wisconsin's Republican governor Scott Walker, writes Gary Younge.
Obama victory a sure thing, predicts expert
- 23 Apr 2012 08:18 - Michael Mathes
- Mitt Romney is in the midst of a bruising, costly campaign to oust Barack but one expert has long said the Republican's efforts are for naught.
Republicans perform about-turn on taxes
- 13 Aug 2011 16:35 - Staff Reporter
- Having said no to taxes for months, Republicans now are saying maybe in the face of public disgust over a deadlock in the US Congress.
