Donald Trump, President of the United States of America

On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weakness, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The presidency has been reduced to leverage for business and personal gain, hollowing out the ideals on which the country was founded.

OPINION: America’s 250th birthday is both a celebration of a nation that reshaped the world and a reckoning with the contradictions, injustices and democratic strains

US Independence Day was never the simple morality tale Americans often tell themselves. Under Donald Trump the debate over its meaning is more politically charged than ever under.

Donald Trump, President of the United States of America