Like fellow septuagenarian Bernie Sanders, Charlie Hardy thinks politics is not the place for big money

The area’s leafy streets are overwhelmingly quiet, rich and white

The New York senator was the only Democrat to address the crowd

Behind the veneer of pomp and circumstance – the marching bands, the patriotic music, the shared drive from the White House to Congress by presidents 44 and 45 – America’s political fissures, deeper and more personalised than ever, were plain

'Is this thing still on? Michelle and I are off on a quick vacation, then we’ll get back to work'

The plan was to make Donald Trump federally legalise cannabis

Sean O’Grady on the finest pieces of rhetoric delivered by new presidents – and some of the worst

Not since the mid-1970s has a president-elect been so unpopular 

A nation was stunned, and a community was in mourning. The Independent's week-long series looking back at Obama's greatest speeches continues

Continuing our series in the week running up to Donald Trump's inauguration, The Independent looks back at a speech in which Obama, the supposed man of peace, introduced himself as a president at war

Continuing our week-long series ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, The Independent looks back at the President's outreach to the Muslim world – something not everyone approved of

The warning about the President-elect appeared in the watchdog's annual report

In the second part of a week-long series ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Independent revisits a speech which tackles racial issues head-on

The retired general and soon-to-be defense secretary said as recently as 2015 that men and women should not be expected to act as ‘little saints'

General Mattis’ comments at his Senate confirmation hearing go largely against the views of the President-elect

Vermont senator, who ran a failed bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton, urged Americans to get involved with politics

Outgoing president spoke of his legacy and repeated calls for unity in the face of increasing political division

He has officially resigned from Trump Organisation and handed it to his sons

When asked if he still thought Roe v Wade was the ‘worst colossal erroneous decision made by Congress’, he answered to the affirmative

The controversial Alabama senator smiled as several protesters were removed from the room

The Alabama senator has a controversial history