Those who threaten to invoke Article 16 will be given pause for thought if the ‘special relationship’ between the US and UK is perceived to be at risk

The US president’s ambitious plan to overhaul America’s transport infrastructure will soon become law, but his $1.75 trillion social spending bill might yet be scuppered

The US president is facing a monumental battle to get his prized infrastructural investment bill over the line, as rogue senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema continue to obstruct it at every turn

In an exclusive interview, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen reveals a belief that Ireland’s corporate tax reform will put it on the right side of history

The plan to fund federal programmes on everything from climate change to affordable housing grants to lower prescription drug prices requires the support of all 50 Democratic senators, but two of his more conservative members are holding out

The US president’s social spending programme has the potential to make his administration a truly transformative one, but two of his own party’s senators are standing in the way

Ahead of his prestigious address to the United Nations General Assembly, the US president has a credibility problem following a succession of disasters in Afghanistan

Biden sees a strict new vaccine mandate as essential to get Americans working again, but Republicans see an opportunity to fight ‘big government’

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

The resurgence of Isis-K and its suicide attacks on Kabul Airport has pushed the US into an uneasy alliance with the Taliban, and has left many wondering what, if anything, has been achieved in Afghanistan in the last two decades

The US president’s moral trapeze act is wholly dishonest, and leaving Afghanistan in a fragile and destabilised state will have repercussions far beyond that country’s borders

With US policy on Afghanistan now exposed as a manifest failure, Joe Biden may feel that dropping the charges against the Wikileaks’ campaigner carries too high a political price

The US President has come out of the gate with a neo-populist economic agenda closer to Trump’s than to that of the previous administration in which he served

The European Commission's Fit for 55 package doesn’t make life easy for US president Joe Biden, and would be regarded by many as a tariff by stealth

The US president used hearing aids to illustrate anti-competitive business practices as he sought to put a check on the continuing erosion of America’s competitive edge

Ireland is just one of nine countries that didn’t endorse the proposals at the G7 summit for a 15% international corporate tax regime. Are we undermining our moral authority as a result?

Government defends decision not to sign up to OECD reforms arguing they could stall if US Congress fails to agree on higher corporate taxes

Clarity and cooperation in areas such as trade, monetary policy and vaccines will be important for global stability — and this needs two-way communication with China

Joe Biden may not believe in America First, but his nationalistic approach to trade is clear to see

‘Hopeless Hancock’ and the Putin-Biden summit cut through the airbrushed, manicured, 24/7 performances that are now the mainstay of political discourse