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James BallNew Statesman |
One perk of being the president of the United States is that you almost never need to be unpleasantly surprised. The largest and most powerful...
Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American...
These are serious times for the US Secretary of Defence. Just this week, Donald Trump launched what he insists is a new war against Iran, his second...
The Fourth of July is always something of an ambivalent moment when it comes to the so-called “special relationship” between the US and the UK....
Donald Trump is not in a good mood with Nato right now. The US President has been repeatedly grousing that the Western alliance was not there for him...
When president Barack Obama signed a deal with Iran in 2015 to limit its nuclear enrichment programme for a decade, the US agreed to release $1.7bn in...
Almost every pair of eyes in Westminster this week is focused on the cascading chain reaction of events that seems sure to end Keir Starmer’s...
Working out what a world leader actually means when they deliver public statements has always been core to the art of diplomacy. Traditionally, this...
What does Putin do next? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take a deeper look at the future for the Russian...
When you change your job title to Secretary of War – as Donald Trump’s Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has attempted to do – it seems that...
Donald Trump has long thought, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that wars are easy to end. He seems to sincerely believe that he has ended...
There is an old saying in politics: if you want loyalty, get a dog. The trouble for Kristi Noem is that she infamously shot hers as a 14-month-old...
JD Vance, a man who styles himself as a devout Christian, made his deal with a devil a long time ago. When he saw that supporting Donald Trump – a...