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One of the two leading US presidential candidates is the subject of gathering despair within his party. Reliable allies are discreetly questioning whether he can possibly win in November given [...]

John Kerry, the often nuanced Democratic candidate for president, was unusually transparent in an appearance last Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, America's televisual Star Chamber of political inquisition. Asked [...]

In Washington's fashionably international neighbourhoods, there is a palpable sense this US presidential election year that John Kerry, now confirmed as the Democratic candidate, is carrying the hopes not only [...]

If the Democrats had pre-scripted their primary campaign, which ended yesterday with the withdrawal of John Edwards and the anointment of John Kerry as their candidate, it is hard to [...]

In the 2004 presidential election campaign almost nothing has gone according to plan so far for President George W. Bush. At the start of the year, Republicans were expecting events [...]

There is something rather poignant about the fact that, on one of the rare occasions when a member of the Bush administration's economics team speaks plain honest economic sense, he [...]

Now that the American football season has ended we can surely be grateful for one thing. John Kerry will presumably have to stop drawing those painful analogies between his own [...]

On the face of it, the oblique interventions this week by David Kay and Lord Hutton on the causes, justification and aftermath of the Iraq war would seem to point [...]

With due deference to President George W. Bush, the most consequential speech this week was not the one he gave to the US people on Tuesday night but the one [...]

This week, in accordance with modern political ritual, voters in the midwestern state of Iowa fired the starting gun for the 2004 US presidential election campaign. Between now and November [...]

Send back all those campaign contributions; roll up that map of electoral college votes; spare us the attack ads and the photo ops. The 2004 presidential election is over before [...]

President George W. Bush could hardly have imagined a better end to the year for his administration's foreign policy goals than the events that have unfolded in the last three [...]

From the public reaction, it will be hard to tell whether it is President Kim Jong-il or President George W. Bush who flies into London next week. A clear majority [...]

Last weekend, a couple of dozen miles and a large mood swing away from the stein-wielding, lederhosen-clad revellers of the Oktoberfest, a group of American and German scholars, policymakers and [...]

George W. Bush has had a problem keeping campaign promises. When he sought the presidency in 2000 he was a free-trader who railed against fiscal deficits, nation-building and pointless efforts [...]

In just three months the world has witnessed a dizzying blur of events that neatly captures the paradox of US power at the start of the 21st century. America's far [...]

Not since Joe McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee has a group of Americans earned a place in the demonology of Europeans quite like the one occupied by today's neo-conservatives. European politicians [...]

President George W. Bush yesterday completed his first trip to Europe since the Iraq war, giving signals of an evolving US approach to the transatlantic relationship. After six months that [...]

Tony Blair had good reason to like Camp David, the US president's mountain retreat in the Catoctin Mountains outside Washington. On his first trip there to meet George W. Bush [...]

Swivelling like a well-oiled tank turret, President George W. Bush is shifting his administration's focus from the war front to the home front. Hoping the sights and sounds of military [...]

President Jacques Chirac called President George W. Bush this week for the first time since diplomatic negotiations to avoid war in Iraq collapsed two months ago. By chance, the transcript [...]

The mission begins in Baghdad but it does not end there. Were the US to retreat after victory into complacency, new dangers would soon arise. War in Iraq represents but [...]

In October 2000, on a warm autumn evening at Wake ForestUniversity in Winston Salem, North Carolina, the second of the presidential election debates between Al Gore and George W. Bush [...]

Two months into the imperium of George W. Bush, the wheels are wobbling alarmingly on the presidential chariot. Ten weeks ago, Mr Bush seized the laurel crown that had been [...]

With conservatives in control of the White House and Congress, and a resurgent America laying down the law everywhere, 2003 was quite a year. January North Korea announces completion of [...]

Tony Blair's loyalty to George W. Bush has earnt him criticism at home, where he is the latest in a succession of prime ministers to be portrayed as the American [...]

When Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister, fired six of his ministers in 1963, Harold Wilson, the leader of the opposition, noted with satisfaction that he had sacked half his [...]

Two years ago, George W. Bush had for presidential company Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams. His controversial election placed him in the sparse and un-illustrious ranks [...]

Shortly after 2pm on Wednesday, February 27 1991, President George H. W. Bush's war cabinet - the Gang of Eight, as they called themselves - filed into the Oval Office [...]

WASHINGTON and NEW YORK -- President George W. Bush will tomorrow show his determination not to be undone by domestic economic problems when he chairs a broad-based forum aimed at [...]

President George W. Bush will tomorrow show his determination not to be undone by domestic economic problems when he chairs a broad-based forum aimed at finding ways to revitalise the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Amid conflicting signals about the urgency of the Bush administration's plans to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein, members of the US Congress clashed yesterday on whether the US should [...]

It takes a singular feat of diplomacy to inflame the entire populations of Brazil and Argentina in one go. Pleasing or upsetting these South American rivals is usually a zero-sum [...]

George W. Bush's most successful campaign theme in 2000 was his promise to usher in a new 'era of responsibility' in American life. He never mentioned the scandal-tainted occupant of [...]

Dick Cheney has had a brush with the law once before. A keen angler, as a young man he was once caught fishing out of season and forced to pay [...]

President George W. Bush stepped into the darkened auditorium on the fourth floor of the White House annexe to deliver a private message to an elite audience of US business [...]

When President George W. Bush presented his long-awaited vision of a permanent Middle East peace in the rose garden of the White House on Monday, his national security team stood [...]

For a moment it looked as if Jacques Chirac had swallowed something unpleasant. The French president gazed uncomprehendingly at George W.Bush, his lips pursing and then opening in what looked [...]

ROME -- Russia and the Nato alliance, former adversaries that threatened each other with nuclear annihilation, yesterday became partners in an expanded transatlantic alliance. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, sat [...]

ROME -- All US presidents find the pull of history irresistible. Even George W. Bush, who has deliberately eschewed the constant legacy-searching of his predecessor, likes nothing better than to [...]

PARIS -- In a gentle, mournful, Normandy rain, a few hundred yards and a couple of generations from the liberating strife of Omaha Beach, President George W. Bush yesterday honoured [...]

ROME -- In Rome today, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries will formally launch a new, though as yet largely undefined, partnership between them and the country their [...]

When I agreed to write a diary of my travels on Bush's trip to Europe during the past week, I made myself promise it would not turn into another exploration [...]

Loose footing Bush's problems are not the result of a weak mind, as sneering critics in Europe believe. He has political savvy and is a quick study of international relations. [...]

PARIS -- US President George W. Bush and France's Jacques Chirac yesterday reaffirmed the importance of the transatlantic relationship, but acknowledged a number of important differences between them. Both Mr [...]

MOSCOW -- The US and Russia yesterday launched what their leaders called a new era in their relations, making deep cuts in strategic nuclear forces and agreeing to deepen economic [...]

Ever since John F. Kennedy declared 'Ich bin ein Berliner' at the Brandenburg Gate 40 years ago, a snatch of epigrammatic German has been compulsory for US leaders making the [...]

MOSCOW -- The US and Russia yesterday launched what their leaders called a new era in relations between the two former adversaries, making deep cuts in their strategic nuclear forces [...]

BERLIN -- On the first full day of his trip to Europe yesterday, President George W. Bush faced the delicate task of interweaving the demands of traditional diplomacy, a desire [...]