Georgia residents on Trump and Harris’s post-Helene trips: ‘He’s here to get votes, she’s here to help’
John Oliver on VP debate’s ‘civility’: ‘Etiquette is kind of beside the point’
Last Week Tonight host digs into the much-heralded ‘civility’ of the vice-presidential debate and racial discrimination in non-safety-related traffic stops
How an ultra-right majority in California’s far north picked a novice to run its elections
Shasta county has made its name as a hotbed of the election-denial movement – and the snubbing of a well-respected election clerk has caused alarm
‘Every day is a new conspiracy’: behind Trump’s ironclad grip on rightwing media
City of villains: Republicans stoke fears of Democratic-run cities
‘Undisciplined, unhinged and deranged’: will Trump’s strange behavior hurt him at the polls?
‘Coal jobs were out, opiates were in’: how shame and pride explain Trump’s rural popularity
This swing county saw a job boom due to Biden. Yet, many union members still back Trump
Analysis
What is Melania Trump’s game in suddenly defending abortion rights?
Harris faces triple trouble, even before October’s inevitable surprises
Walz and Vance embrace an endangered US political species: agreement
What price are US media outlets paying for spreading election lies?
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Explainers
US dock workers ended strike – but dispute is not over yet
Fact-checking the US vice-presidential debate: abortion, immigration, climate and more
US VP debate: when and how to watch the Walz-Vance vice-presidential debate in Australia
What we know so far about JD Vance and Tim Walz’s debate styles
Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
Opinion
Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake
Sidney Blumenthal
Jack Smith plays his Trump card
Well it is that time of the year
The US election is on a knife edge. My trip to Georgia showed how easily it could end in tragedy
Oliver Laughland
Does Melania Trump really think her pro-choice messaging will fool us?
Moira Donegan
JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the anti-democracy movement in the US
Robert Reich
JD Vance is trying hard not to be weird – and it’s making him seem more menacing still
Emma Brockes
JD Vance’s debate lines were so polished you could forget they made no sense
Moira Donegan
JD Vance’s slick performance can’t hide the danger of another Trump presidency
Margaret Sullivan
Vance or Walz: who won the VP debate? Our panel responds
Moustafa Bayoumi, LaTosha Brown, Ben Davis, Lloyd Green, Arwa Mahdawi and Bhaskar Sunkara
Donald Trump is gaining on Kamala Harris in the polls. I have some theories why
