Due to lawmakers’ inability to reach a budget deal for the fiscal year, the US government’s shutdown will cut back on services.
Republicans feel snubbed by the US president’s combative inauguration speech. Ewen MacAskill reports.
President Barack Obama will this week look Americans in the eye and say he deserves four more White House years despite national economic despondency.
Barack Obama says Republican lawmakers are taking advantage, depriving middle-class Americans of better protection against deceptive business practice
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/ 22 November 2011
US lawmakers have abandoned efforts to rein in debt in a sign that Washington will be unlikely to resolve the tax and spending dispute before 2013.
A peer review report has shown the need for greater coordination among US departments in solving their debt crisis.
A bitter divide remained in the US before Tuesday’s deadline to raise the country’s debt ceiling, to avoid a crippling default.
Barack Obama’s achievements are insufficient, his party confused. Ahead of the elections, reactionaries are seizing the initiative.
The scene is set for one of the biggest battles of recent US political history after Republicans rejected Barack Obama’s revised health-reform Bill.
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/ 6 November 2009
Jonthan Freedland looks back over a year that began with Barack Obama’s victory speech.
The conservatives who now dominate the party of the American right may come to rue losing their moderate wing.
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/ 27 January 2009
Japan’s ruling and opposition parties enacted a -billion extra budget on Tuesday to fund government stimulus plans, after two days of bickering.
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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama will on Tuesday hold talks with congressional Republicans who complain his -billion stimulus plan is too expensive.
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/ 20 January 2009
Jonathan Freedland reports on the intensifying excitement as strait-laced Washington DC awaits Obama’s transformation into head of state.
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/ 3 December 2008
Reflecting what’s on the minds of Americans, "bailout" and "socialism" have beaten "maverick" in a US dictionary word-of-the-year competition.
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/ 25 November 2008
Touted as the next US secretary of state, the former first lady carries tremendous political baggage.
Obama and McCain differ on the uses of American power, but who is the hawk and who is the dove, asks David E Sanger.
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/ 1 November 2008
It wasn’t easy. I didn’t get my absentee ballot in time so I called the consulate in Johannesburg to see what I could do.
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/ 30 October 2008
“We are longing to have Obama shirts or any kinds of things about him,” says Jeannine Ralaitafika, who sells shirts in Antananarivo.
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/ 30 October 2008
Sierra Leonean support for Obama transcends age and religious differences, writes Olusegun Ogundeji.
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/ 30 October 2008
Manyo Benard reports on how “Obamania” has gripped Cameroon.
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/ 30 October 2008
With the Hollywoodisation of the US presidential race, important local news is getting tougher to find, laments Kweku Yeboah Koranteng.
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/ 27 October 2008
Democrats are gazing at a radical new dawn while Republicans are ready to attack the victor, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 18 October 2008
Despite strong words, the final debate is unlikely to be the game-changer McCain had hoped for.
Republicans are urging John McCain to adopt more aggressive tactics against Barack Obama amid fears that the White House is slipping away from them.
Democrat campaign targets the swing state of New Mexico. Dan Glaister reports
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/ 29 September 2008
The financial crisis ended the Palin circus but the Democratic presidential candidate must buck up
his ideas to exploit McCain’s weak point.
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/ 23 September 2008
The Republicans argue that people who have lost their homes may no longer be resident at the address listed on voter records.
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/ 22 September 2008
Historically, there’s been a last-minute swing away from black candidates by white voters. Will Barack change things?
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/ 15 September 2008
Sarah Palin’s road from mayor of a small Alaskan town to John McCain’s running mate is littered with casualties, writes Ed Pilkington.
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/ 13 September 2008
An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse.
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/ 6 September 2008
Furore surrounding John McCain’s running mate is a return to the old American politics of red state versus
blue state, writes Jonathan Freedland.