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The American republic stood on the brink of another descent into Trumpism this week. On Tuesday it stepped back to reconsider its options.

I'm A Celebrity hosts Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly are national treasures in the UK - but they haven't been successful with American audiences and are relative unknowns

“It would appear this morning this is Ron Desantis’s party and not Donald Trump’s,” Willie Geist says

Dr. Oz Campaign in Pennsylvannia Is Part of A Subtle Shift

The sports both evolved from the same ancestry, and threads link the American ‘national pastime’ to cricket fandom

Before we ponder the world’s biggest news this week, America’s surprisingly narrow midterm elections, let’s pay respect to Jair Bolsonaro. That’s because the Brazilian president recently did the right thing, becoming an unlikely role model for patriots in struggling democracies everywhere — even (or especially) for honest Republicans in the…

FICTION: In the novel "How it Went," an American literary legend explores a familiar theme — what is lost when small agrarian communities fade and fold.

There are a lot of guns in America — this nation has collectively more civilian-owned guns than we have citizens. Unlike the rest of the developed world, firearms ownership in America is broadly held, with an estimated 40% of American households owning at least one gun; and unlike the rest…

"The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-first Century" by Peniel Joseph; Basic Books (288 pages, $27)