Ed Pilkington

“I used to work for the government. Now I work for the public”

Obama has a variety of different routes to victory on November 6, but Romney’s hopes are next to moribund unless he wins in Ohio.

The BBC is in the middle of a growing scandal involving a television host who was once one of its highest-profile stars.

On the online political battlefield, US president Barack Obama beats his rival for the hands down, write Ed Pilkington & Amanda Michel.

More than half the babies under the age of one are now likely to be Hispanic, black or Asian, writes Ed Pilkington.

A controversial Bill that targets illegal Latinos is setting a precedent for other conservative states in the United States.

Republican candidates and President Barack Obama recognise the importance of Nevada.

Pepper spray, Swat teams and judicial torture. This barbarity is ever present — but rarely so visible — in American life.

Relatives of victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York are to meet the attorney general to discuss allegations that journalists working for News

The first woman editor of the <i>New York Times</i> tells why she got the job and how she’ll handle the transition to digital.

More than 250 eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged WikiLeaks source.

Social networking’s much-vaunted challenge to autocracies ‘has been undermined by the West’.

There once was a place where neighbours greeted neighbours in the quiet of summer twilight.

Unscheduled talks seen as a bid to address US concerns.

What gets a Tea Party activist going? A good way of answering that is to browse the stalls at a Tea Party rally.