Tracking Trump: president gives himself top marks for military bereavement calls

President claimed he ‘called every family of someone who’s died’ as tensions flared with sergeant’s relatives and later gave himself 10/10 on Puerto Rico Each week Trump seems to make more news than most presidents do in a lifetime. The Guardian is keeping track of it all in this series, every...

Steve Bannon blasts George Bush and calls for Republican ‘revolt’

Former White House adviser slams former president at California eventBush ‘embarrassed himself’ in speech decrying ‘bullying and prejudice’The former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has launched a scathing attack on George W Bush, portraying him as a buffoon whose presidency was as...

How this 1967 Vietnam war protest carried the seeds of American division

The marchers who converged on the Pentagon 50 years ago placed flowers in soldiers’ guns but also opened up a cultural faultline that persists to this dayThey were in the belly of the beast. Marching on the Pentagon, control centre of the world’s most powerful fighting force, protesters against...

Why does nobody mention that Hillary Clinton is perfectly nice?

The almost-holder of the loftiest office imaginable was on The Graham Norton Show after her recent brush with the NHS“Hello. I am Hillary Rodham Clinton, and this is the Graham Norton Show.” The almost-holder of what was once the loftiest imaginable office was surprisingly game for a bit of...