Hussein Ibish

In the US almost 80,000 people have died and unemployment has reached levels not seen for almost 100 years

The case of former national security adviser Gen Michael Flynn illustrates how irreconcilable Democratic and Republican worldviews have become

People will see through what is yet another attempt by the President to distract them from his administration's poor handling of the Covid-19 crisis in an election year

With his poll numbers falling, the president's re-election campaign is evidently getting desperate

The short answer is no, but the country is facing a different kind of political challenge

From the outset, the US response to the pandemic has been characterised by a shortage of testing kits, equipment and – most of all – leadership

Leaders who rose to power denigrating expertise and international co-operation are now having to rely on both elements in a time of crisis

The former vice president will present himself as a return to normalcy in US foreign policy but the world he will confront and the America he will lead are greatly changed

When the painful blows coming to Americans’ daily lives, health and wallets hit, it is his presidency that could become Covid-19's most politically significant victim

The former American vice president has pulled off an astonishing rise to the head of the Democratic pack

In the unlikely event the Democratic Party contender beats Donald Trump in this year's election, his policies will not serve the US well, either domestically or abroad

History shows that radical overreach on the part of the 'strong' has grim implications for the 'weak', and for itself

A concerted effort to punish the whistleblower, the witnesses and those who co-operated with the impeachment probe undermines American democracy

The lengths the party-controlled Senate has gone to in its bid to get the president acquitted has troubling consequences for the country's democracy

By rushing to impeach because of their own election calendars, Democrats are committing a significant blunder