Donald J. Trump

Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.

In the postwar era bounteous US foreign aid reshaped the world, for better or worse. With the culling of USAID those days are over.

Canada and the US have often been uneasy neighbours; the roots of the latest political flare up can be found in their tangled history.

The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record. Historians should pay attention to rumour.

In A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America, Richard Slotkin attempts to untangle the stories that the US tells itself about race, colonialism and the Civil War. Is it a lost cause?

American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?

Like President Trump, Nixon made a virtue of unpredictability. In the case of his China strategy, this paid off while his decision to close the gold window did not.

The 45th US President is caught in a constant rerun of the debates of the 1980s, argues Charlie Laderman.

When Joe Biden said ‘God save the Queen’, was he heralding the end of the republic?