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Roe v Wade abortion rights case overturned by US Supreme Court

Ruling likely to result in abortion not being legally available in roughly half of US states

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

Marion McKeone: Capitol offence? January 6 Committee determined to hold Trump to account

Committee members believe the January 6 report will ‘blow the roof off’ congress, but have the American public become too obsessed with fantastical conspiracies to be shocked by mere facts?

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: The leak’s the thing as Republicans sidestep fury over Roe vs Wade reversal

Nationwide anger at the leaked US Supreme Court ruling to effectively outlaw abortion in America was quickly channelled into manufactured outrage at the leak itself

Marion McKeone: JD Vance’s tilt at political glory is a straw in the wind for Trump’s 2024 run

The author, whose rural memoir Hillbilly Elegy topped the bestseller charts, has set his sights on becoming Ohio’s next senator. But his chances of success rest largely on how much power and cachet Donald Trump’s endorsement still holds

Marion McKeone: Another billionaire disrupting the political scene with LA mayor bid

Rick Caruso, a luxury property developer who claims he can solve Los Angeles’ chronic homelessness problem in 300 days, looks set to outpoll Karen Bass, a popular congresswoman with 40 years’ political experience

How Biden’s jettisoned green agenda left him in the worst of all worlds

Most Americans are blaming the US President’s green energy policies for the soaring energy prices, while progressives are furious that he has not used the soaring cost of fossil fuels to phase out oil and gas production

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

Vincent Boland: For all its faults, the modern, democratic, capitalist, globalised world in which we live is worth defending, and fighting for

Doing business is becoming ever more political as the right turns on its corporate base

Marion McKeone: Biden facing a tougher battle on the home front

For the president, the re-emergence of the US as the undisputed leader of a united liberal world order has paid little or no dividend at home

Aidan Regan: Ukraine war exposes lie at the heart of global ‘free trade’ myth

Globalisation doesn’t lead to free and fair societies, instead it helps to prop up dictators and the democratic world needs to wake up to this reality

Marion Mckeone: Not even a Covid diagnosis can dampen Irish spirits after a successful week in DC

This year’s St Patrick’s Day events in Washington DC will be deemed a diplomatic success, despite Micheál Martin contracting the virus

A million goodbyes: The terrible toll taken on America by Covid

The US’s death toll from the pandemic is about to surpass the symbolic one million mark, with casualty figures cleaving sharply among class and racial lines. And yet, even after two years, both sides of the country’s political divide remain at loggerheads over what to do next

Editorial: West’s punishing sanctions against Putin are 21st-century tools of war

The steps that Europe and the US are taking to shut Russia out of the global financial system could not only hobble Putin’s plans, but bring the country to financial ruin

Marion McKeone: Joe Biden is in a bind as Russia ratchets up the pressure in Ukraine

The US president has made it clear that war will not be declared on its rival superpower, but this leaves him with increasingly few options as the carnage continues in Ukraine

Kenneth Rogoff: Is the peace dividend over?

Increased spending on defence is a necessity, not a luxury, if Western nations wish to maintain their way of life

‘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