No one is more shocked at how far Donald Trump has come than Donald Trump

As per the OJ and Clarence Thomas cases, one theme dominates the US

Maureen Dowd: Key demographic who deserted her in 2008 are still not convinced

Hillary’s campaign cries sexism too often and pales when compared to Bernie Sanders

Businessman claims he knows how to act properly and flexibly when he needs to

Donald Trump’s endorser has way of getting her message across that few identify with

Contender seeks to be seen as dog with a bone compared with feline Obama

Hillary Clinton is on a sticky wicket when she accuses Donald Trump of bullying – and he knows it

The Republicans and Democrats find no shortage of bones to pick over turkey

Bush patriarch has used his new biography to tackle some family politics

Jeb Bush won’t turn around his listless campaign by channelling his brother W

Benghazi hearing showcased ‘good’ Hillary, but there were flashes of ‘bad’

Its efforts to derail Democrat candidate have ruined credibility of Benghazi inquiry

The speaker’s mind must be racing as he gets set for the big countdown

Francis preaches against elites while keeping the church an elite boys’ club

Questions surround Paris-based project aimed at digitally replicating all art

Maverick Donald Trump’s ‘gusto’ has shown up the timidity of the other runners

The pugnacious candidate has scrambled up the US presidential campaign

Some see Donald Trump as a crude, cartoonish bully. He says he just lacks insecurities

Businessman’s attacks can help smoke out more careful rivals in US presidential race

As Hillary Clinton’s sheen is scuffed, the vice-president must make up his mind

His supporters are thrilled to see the Barack Obama they voted for is back

Monica Lewinsky steps out of exile at Cannes festival to tackle cyberbullies

Ducking and diving on trade deal raises questions about trustworthiness

US president has learned the hard way that you shouldn’t abandon your allies

French ambassador to US invents a new form of digital diplomacy for our cacophonous age

Hillary may get cash, but she’ll get little enthusiasm from jaded Hollywood insiders

I didn’t realise that while I was reviewing my drivers, they were doing the same to me

Fit, healthy and not one to overindulge, my niece Tara was an unlikely victim

Is there nothing between Macho Man and Humble Granny for Hillary?

Lack of large-scale allure reflected in planned low-key start to campaign

Real female CIA operatives say they are tired of being misrepresented

The neocons are swirling around Jeb, ready to inhabit another president Bush

In festival of interactivity, connectivity, sharing and Tindering, the two big stars were Grumpy Cat and Meerkat, a live-streaming(...)

Your ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails just makes us want to sigh: okay, just take the presidency

Hillary’s private email controversy highlights her desire for control

New generation of women in film and TV take things into their own hands

To be seen as his own man, Jeb Bush needs to let go of his big brother’s props

NBC’s anchor Brian Williams is in trouble, but respect for the medium is already gone

After he saw the documentary ‘Mitt’, the former Massachusetts governor thought he could be president

Defeat has left the US president free to resume being the consummate outsider

Film-makers have a responsibility to be accurate about race, the US’s original sin

Starbucks boss Howard Schultz has taken up the cause of returning combatants

‘The Affair’, starring Dominic West, is the classic scenario of he said she said

Film noir vixens always beat boring cinema portraits of idealised women

Julia Pierson withheld crucial information and papered over fiascos at a vital agency

The US looks past human rights in the Middle East as it woos the coalition

Opinion: country singer’s tour bus ideal venue to discuss US marijuana laws

NFL commissioner is acting more like Nixon than like his courageous father

Opinion: repulsive William Masters was the opposite of Tony Blair and David Frost

Opinion: be a player on the world stage? I’d rather play golf, says our leader

We’re in a new war in Iraq with some bad ‘folks’, as the president might say, whose name we’re still fuzzy on

Is Bush biography a bid to exorcise the ghosts of all who died for no reason?

‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureate

Clinton’s displays of empathy provide a sharp contrast with the president’s chilliness

The Clinton family act as if all they care about is selfless public service

Opinion: defensive US is struggling to come to grips with the loss of its sense of greatness

Opinion: Clinton’s claim that she is no longer scripted and safe is not credible

The European Court of Justice’s ruling enshrines the right to forget

Overly PC students missed a chance to hear Rice explain her fall from grace

Whether deliberate or not, Vatican ambiguity is most harsh on women

As a tired and fed-up Obama looks ready to pass the baton, Hillary looks ready to grab it

Bigoted views of folk hero Cliven Bundy proves embarrassing for Republicans

Since its launch in 1964, Ford’s Mustang has been an affordable classic

Opinion: new US ‘Late Show’ host has surgical wit but is no radical

Opinion: US senate seems tame after the cut and thrust of one of Barack Obama’s favourite series

Governor of California says former adversary is in strong position for White House

Ahead of the midterms, a sense of malaise is building around Obama and the Democrats

There are many things the unpopular US president just doesn’t get

The Clintons don’t get defeated in elections: they get postponed

Opinion: Pope Francis has shown a more conciliatory attitude to gays than some US clerics

The New Jersey governor is a stark contrast to the wan Obama

François Hollande is thought to be a loser in the US because he’s so unrefined he might as well be American

Opinion: We’ve gone so far beyond the scenario depicted in ‘Network’ that we should be scared as hell

Republican up in arms over Democrats’ ‘war on women’ claims

Pot entrepeneurs are trying to cast Denver as the Napa Valley of cannabis

Opinion: a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the former candidate for the US presidency does what his Republican advisers could no(...)

New Jersey governor’s grovelling apology rings hollow

Bratton must walk the line between police department and mayor’s office

While intellectuals can be kind and nice, their job is to expose mediocrity

Maureen Dowd: the 28th president of the US was an unlikely lothario

Comedian Sarah Silverman wants Hillary Clinton to take a voice class

The extension of information obsession to the field of intimacy ruins the mystery, poetry and suspense

The US president always conveys tedium at the idea that he has to persuade people to go along with him

Former secretary of defence is still not admitting his historic blunders

Tea Party zombies continue to maraud around the Hill

The Bluffdale sinkhole has quietly started sucking in mountains of data

83-year-old is full of philanthropic good advice and investing wisdom

Column: on the issue of Syrian intervention the US president has been deserted by his powers of persuasion

Cathy Lanier rose from poverty to become a popular chief of police in the US capital

Impeaching the president remains the Holy Grail for an embittered GOP

Bill and Hillary Clinton want to do worthy deeds with their foundation while squeezing the wealthy for their own enrichment

Hillary Clinton is soaking up a disproportionate amount of attention and energy, as if she was already president

Christine Quinn would be the first female and openly gay mayor of New York city, if she lit the spark

Compared with Bill Clinton, there is nothing in the New York mayoral hopeful’s public life that is redeeming

Whitey Bulger and his one-time gang partner faced each other across a Boston courtroom

A Paris exhibition gets behind the seams of historic underwear

Opinion: Widening chasms between sectors of society are creating new divisions

Opinion: the scariest thing about ‘World War Z’ is the dearth of creativity in Hollywood