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Why White Liberals Fail by Anthony J Badger: Trump, globalisation and why Democrats lost the South

Why is the American South so politically conservative? It is poor; it needs reform. The basis exists for a class-based electorate, and yet, over a century on from the Civil War, things are still split on race — to the Republican Party’s advantage.

What Trump will do next (and what he won't)

'What will Donald Trump do next?" I am pondering the outgoing US president's next move with Michael Wolff, the journalist and author of two dirt-raking books on Team Trump. A military strike on Iran, perhaps?

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Democrats and Republicans were never going to agree on the result - it’s always been that way

Everything that has happened in the presidential election was predicted. The basic problem was that America had never voted by mail before on this scale. Back in June, the Democrats war-gamed how it might play out and concluded that if the election was close, Donald Trump would probably question the ballots and call it a fraud.

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Tim Stanley Opinion Trump has changed the Republican Party for a generation – at least

THE consensus had been that Donald Trump was a temporary feature of American politics. Well, he’s not. Trump has changed the Republican Party’s character, issue agenda and coalition – for a generation, at least. Put yourself in the shoes of a moderate Republican, the kind of person who used to run the party. What you wanted was for Trump to be repudiated in a landslide, to expose him as unpopular and an anomaly, allowing you to recapture and rebuild the party over the next four years.

Image is everything when a US president is taken ill

The helicoptering of Donald Trump to hospital on Friday was a shock, but not a first.

This adds uncertainty to election process already straining at the seams

After several days of drama - from tax returns to a Supreme Court fight - we now add a presidential illness, and it's the last thing the United States needs.

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Tim Stanley Opinion His critics portray him as a fascist buffoon - but the president's secret weapon is that, to people in unfashionable America, he is still their guy

The Republican convention started yesterday, a chance for Donald Trump to say "here's what I've done, here's what I intend to do". The media in Ireland and Britain will call it crazy and dumb, and it'll be a bit of both. But the problem with relentlessly portraying Trump as a fascist buffoon is that you end up with no insight into why millions still support him. There are certain things about this administration you're not being told.

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Tim Stanley: 'Trump must close gap between populist rhetoric and reality - or risk losing power'

Donald Trump is on course to lose the 2020 presidential election. His approval rating hasn't cracked 45pc for more than two years and he's running behind key Democrats in the polls.

Tim Stanley: 'Cometh the hour - it's time for the Tories to send for Boris'

There is only one issue that matters: Brexit. There might be only one politician who can get it done: Boris. The fact that I don't have to use his surname speaks volumes. In an age of over-information, faff and paralysis, he cuts through.

Democrats can no longer rely on conspiracy theories to explain the president's popularity

At first glance, the Mueller affair looks like a pretty odd "exoneration". Yes, a summary of the report into Russian involvement in the 2016 election says Donald Trump didn't collude with Vladimir Putin - but the investigation did lead to 34 indictments and seven convictions, and special counsel Robert Mueller draws no conclusion on attempted obstruction of justice. On top of which, the president faces other probes related to business, charitable and personal conduct. "The best day of Trump's presidency," said the BBC. Kennedy had the Cuban missile crisis; Reagan had Reykjavik. Trump's best day is being told that he's not a Russian puppet.

Tim Stanley: 'Beto's sex appeal conceals a fractured party'

The average American will earn $1.4m (€1.23m) in their lifetime. Last week, Beto O'Rourke announced his candidacy for president and raised $6.1m (€5.37m) in 24 hours.

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Tim Stanley: 'If we stick to the facts of Christmas, it becomes a true gift'

I dread to think how Christmas will be marked in a hundred years' time, by when most people will be totally ignorant of how it all began. "What happened on the very first Christmas, children?"

Tim Stanley: 'The best result for a divided America is if no one wins midterm election outright'

The weather in Washington DC is ugly; the flag on my neighbour's porch drips with rain. The TV is loud: everyone in news talks in capital letters nowadays. "THE MIDTERMS ARE ON AND IT'S A REFERENDUM ON TRUMP!" Fox says he's our last hope. MSNBC says he's the Antichrist. I wonder if Trump would be doing better if he wasn't Trump.

Singapore summit sees a triumph of charisma over state diplomacy

Donald Trump told journalists he hadn't slept for 25 hours but was happy to keep talking so long as they had questions.

The state of the US under The Donald is more a shining casino on a hill than the moral beacon for our world

In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump was teed up to tell Congress that America is doing great. Amazing. Better than ever.

The Donald isn't floundering, he's in tune with Americans - but he needs to get on with job

Don't give up on Trump just yet. That's not a moral judgment: he's had a bad few weeks because he is doing badly at his job, but he's still the real deal. Trump is far closer to America as it actually is than the America his critics want it to be.

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God bless little Charlie - his short life brought out the very best in us

Poor Charlie has died. Whatever one thinks of the debate surrounding his life, that's all that matters now. A life is gone. Those left behind have to be given the space to grieve. Politics is suspended.

May's mandate disappears like tears in the rain

One thing appears certain: Theresa May's huge popularity has disappeared like tears in the rain.

Trump turns to foreign policy to win back approval at home

There was a time when North Korea was the great mystery in foreign relations - now the US seems opaque, too.

Comment: Control immigration and halt the far-right

Why is the long-haired nationalist Geert Wilders poised to do well in the Dutch elections? The Netherlands is a liberal country. The economy is strong. Crime is so low that the government has been renting out prison cells.

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President's fiercest foes might well be within his own Republican party

Tonight, Donald Trump performs live at the Congress theatre, Washington DC. The president will talk 'bigly' and greatly. Some lawmakers will applaud. Others may boo. But who will do which?

America has elected a clever salesman who excited his country

Revolutions are hard to predict when you're living through them. Only when they're over does the outcome seem obvious. Eighteen months ago, the idea of President Donald Trump was laughable. Right up to election day, it appeared highly unlikely. Then he did it. He really did it. And on reflection, it makes perfect sense.

President Trump could be a reality... and it might not be as bad as feared

I am sitting in a cheap motel room in North Carolina, the kind of place where drug deals go horribly wrong, and a boasting, brash voice comes over the radio. Donald Trump.

Vote will decide ‘fate of world’ – Obama

Barack Obama warned America last night that the "fate of the world" was at risk if Donald Trump was elected president, as he publicly criticised the FBI.

Trump goes all out for Pennsylvania but his 'will to power' is tested by the great US divide

It's probably chutzpah for Donald Trump to say he can win Pennsylvania. He has always exerted a kind of 'will to power' - the belief that if he says something will happen, then it will happen.

Landslide defeat might actually help tycoon to stay politically relevant

Like an illusionist before a great reveal, Donald Trump - speaking at the Las Vegas debate - said: "I will keep you in suspense".

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Trump had glimmers of credibility, but rotting corpse of scandals in his past bars him from the White House

The third and final debate was the best behaved. It was beautifully moderated by Fox's Chris Wallace (you see, they can do fair and balanced).

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Rewarding crowd-pleasers is not the point of Nobel prizes

Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Why not? If the Nobel Committees can give a peace prize to Henry Kissinger then it can give a literature prize to a man who hasn't written any literature.

Hillary validated suspicions she can't stop lying about everything

It's often not the crime that undoes a politician, it's the attempted cover-up. In Hillary Clinton's case, there's no real crime, of course - no one can fault her for falling ill yet still ploughing through her schedule.

The week Trump showed he really can win US election

This weekend America marks the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The United States has never been the same since. It once saw itself as Edenic, protected by the oceans from the world's madness. Overnight, it became vulnerable.