Gerard Baker

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to worry these epochal storms may have profound effects on US political future

Hurricane Milton raged across Florida but caused less damage than initially feared. Just a fortnight ago, Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc in the south-west of the US. Europe's media discuss how these extreme weather events are influencing the

Race is too close to call but rifts and recriminations suggest the vice-president may be falling short in swing states

Two highly credible former aides have raised the rhetorical stakes about the dangers of re-electing the Republican

The Republican’s success across diverse demographics — from Latino and black voters to disillusioned Democrats — should force his critics to rethink their worst assumptions

‘I think we can do much, much better,’ said the top New York Times editor then. They didn’t.

Trump's re-election has exposed aesthetic and substantive divisions within the alliance.

Obama and Biden tried to make the US more like Europe but the 47th president is a throwback to national exceptionalism

Contrasting reactions to deaths of health CEO and aggressive homeless man lay bare the distortion of public discourse

Biden’s presidency ending in failure is the climax of a career in which his defining objective was simply to be, not to do