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Americans of color were more likely than their white counterparts to say they feared being physically attacked, the NPR/Harvard study shows.

In 1660, after the Restoration of the monarchy, two of Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers fled to America to escape execution. Harris is at his best in this fictionalisation of their escape and the quest to find them

It was an unfamiliar feeling of relief: whatever may be wrong with America, at least no one is looking to Liz Truss to solve it, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

It was the first time in four years a rim rock crowned snake has been seen

His paintings could be strangely clunky yet his vision was staggering – which is why this passionate artist, who captured an America in perpetual peril, still speaks to us today

America's mega-drought is revealing natural wonders unseen in decades. But their return from the watery depths heralds a deepening crisis.

‘Thanks to your decency, and thanks to your strength – maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people, the country is better off than when you took office’

The three-week league held in the summer hopes to attract the world's top cricket stars rivalling England's T20 Blast, with six teams playing in American cities

Republicans’ efforts to delegitimize the electoral process should trouble us greatly. Democrats ought to hammer this home

FICTION: A remarkable debut collection of interconnected stories centered on a family of Jamaican immigrants, whose American-born son struggles to establish his place and his identity.

On Aug. 28, a spectator at a volleyball game at Brigham Young University yelled the N-word multiple times at Rachel Richardson, a player from Duke University. There was no intervention by school officials until after the game. And while this may seem like an isolated incident, racist taunts like these…