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As America embarks on the new Biden era, it is a country which has been torn in two. Shattered not just by the deadly pandemic, but also at war with itself. The legacy of Trumpism has been to widen that chasm between his most fervent supporters and those who utterly despise him. So for all…

The biggest challenge for President Biden is how to bring two very separate tribes back together, and try and re-establish some sense of a common truth, if not a common politics. But is the cult of Donald Trump unbreakable, or can such a determined mindset be changed? We’re joined by the psychologist Mary Trump, who…

Battered by the pandemic, by insurrectionists rampaging through the Capitol, by unrest over racial injustice, by the constant babble of fake news – has America become irrevocably divided, or will Joe Biden’s appeal for unity stand any chance of success? We’ve been out in Virginia to speak to a range of Republican voters, and ask…

Think back to four years ago and the angry debate about the size of the crowd. Today there is no debate – and no crowd either. Amid the pandemic and the siege at the US Capitol just two weeks ago, Americans have been firmly told to stay at home. 

Julian Castro served with Joe Biden in President Obama’s cabinet. He was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

There was a red carpet, a 21-gun salute and, somewhat bizarrely, a rendition of Sinatra’s My Way, as Donald Trump boarded Air Force One for his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, clutching his wife Melania’s hand as if his life depended on it. Gone, but perhaps not departed – as Mr Trump told his supporters: “We’ll…

A new day, a new era. President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris have been sworn into office, pledging to write a new chapter in America’s story and declaring “at this hour, democracy has prevailed”.

They believe Donald Trump is the saviour of the American way of life and only he alone can take on the Democrats and the political and corporate establishment.

We spoke to the Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, and started by asking him what he made of video released today, showing Vladimir Putin dunking himself in ice-cold water to mark the Russian Orthodox day of Epiphany – a ceremony that supposedly symbolises a person cleansing themself of sin.

Donald Trump has less than 24 hours left as president, and the reckoning has already begun – including from some whose support he was able to count on. 

We spoke to the Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle. 

The inauguration of the 46th US President marks the end of America’s four-year experiment with carnage and chaos – with a new Commander in chief being sworn in today.

A Russian judge has imprisoned the opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 30 days. The hearing took place not in court, but a police station, with Navalny’s lawyer given barely any notice. The UK and other European countries are understood to be weighing possible further sanctions.

The author and political scientist Yascha Mounk specialises in the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism.

In just over 40 hours, on Wednesday early morning, President Trump will leave the White House to fly to West Palm Beach in Florida, skipping the inauguration ceremony of his successor – the first outgoing President to do so since Andrew Johnson in 1869.  If there has been an element of continuity in Trump’s presidency,…