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An aide’s account lifts lid on Trump’s presidential power grab

Last week’s testimony by Cassidy Hutchinson about the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency could be the smoking gun that leads to a criminal prosecution of him

Marion McKeone: Portrayal of Pence as White House hero ignores some inconvenient facts

The irony of Donald Trump’s loyal vice-president turning from craven sycophant into ‘steely, determined’ hero has not been lost on observers, least of all Republicans

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Editorial: Holding Trump accountable for his role in Capitol riot is crucial

The US has little credibility to claim global leadership or moral authority if it is unable to defend its own democracy

In Texas, a systems failure that allowed a gunman to kill at will

Across America, revulsion at the massacre of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in the small Texan town of Uvalde is now turning to rage and disbelief at the incompetence of the local police who stood by as it happened

Trump wraps himself in the flag to keep the NRA’s cash coming

The former US president has drunk deeply from the well of the National Rifle Association’s coffers in recent years, and showed his gratitude by being the star turn at its flagship event on Friday

Marion McKeone: Palin plots an unlikely comeback after years in Alaskan wilderness

She shot to fame as John McCain’s folksy running mate in the 2008 US presidential election. Now Sarah Palin is ready for her close-up again – even if large swathes of her own party are left unmoved by the prospect of her return to the political fray

Marion McKeone: Donald Trump hoist by his own Putin petard

The former US president’s connections with the Russian despot could end his political ambitions for 2024

‘At least Putin is a Christian, not like Biden’: Why hard-line US conservatives are looking the other way on Ukraine

Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend were more concerned with masks, vaccines and cancel culture than Russia’s bombardment of Ukrainian cities

Dan O’Brien: Thirty years on from The End of History, the world appears to be facing a democratic recession

Francis Fukuyama’s influential 1992 work The End of History proposed that liberal democracy had triumphed over the ‘isms’ of the 20th century. But today liberal democracy faces three challengers: the authoritarian right, the illiberal left and non-democratic regimes imposing themselves on others

Marion McKeone: PAC attack paves the way for Trump’s 2024 presidential tilt

Donald Trump’s various political action committees are proving fiendishly effective at raising hundreds of millions of dollars for his campaign to wrest back the US presidency

Marion McKeone: How Donald Trump continues to rake in cash through an endless barrage of missives

A barrage of texts and emails are being sent from Trumpland to would-be supporters seeking financial contributions. I received upwards of 40 in the last week alone

Marion McKeone: Pence distances himself from Trump in quest for nomination

Mike Pence has finally condemned Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results, but his statement may be more to do with his own tilt at the presidency than moral conviction

Marion McKeone: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer stars in his own all-American story of celebrity, greed and hubris

Michael Avenatti, the personal injury lawyer and avowed enemy of Donald Trump, has been convicted of stealing a $300,000 book advance intended for his former client porn actress Stormy Daniels

Trump family counting the costs of fighting legal battles on all fronts

Problems are mounting for Donald Trump, his children and the Trump Organisation, as legal investigations continue into the events of January 6, 2021, business deals in New York and an accusation of rape

Lucinda Creighton: Democrats are paving the way for the return of Donald Trump

The former US president is still dominating public discourse in the United States because the Democratic party has failed to give Americans a way to move on

2022: Make or break for Biden

With crucial midterm elections on the horizon, the increasingly beleaguered US president has his work cut out to get his Build Back Better agenda over the line in the face of vociferous Republican obstinacy. What will the coming year bring for him and his administration?

Marion McKeone: Electoral college system is outdated and undemocratic

The January 6 Select Committee will not even contemplate the role the voting system played in facilitating the Capitol Hill assault on democracy

State of turmoil: reporting on an America in crisis

Four Years in the Cauldron is Brian O’Donovan’s account of four years in the United States as Washington correspondent for RTÉ News. In this extract from his new book, O’Donovan paints a picture of summer 2020, with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the arrival of a moment of reckoning for president Donald Trump, soon to be voted out of the White House

Irish film-maker raises $1.65m for Hunter Biden movie

Phelim McAleer has also written an avant-garde play called PIGLET about the Zappone controversy

Dan O’Brien: A declining and dysfunctional US is not in Ireland’s interests

The recent chaotic withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan and the continuing polarisation of the American hard right and illiberal left means we can no longer take our impressive economic relationship with that country for granted