Daniel Hannan: The police. Not institutionally racist, but institutionally woke.

Their leaders elevate race relations above what should be their core functions, such as enforcing the law impartially.

Garvan Walshe: America’s military leaders are ready to resist illegal orders from the country’s rogue President. How has it come to this?

Trump seems to be modelling himself on Richard Nixon. But he’s more like segregationalist George Wallace.

Writing brief lives of America’s Presidents taught me that Trump is far from being the first outlandish one

Historians concentrate on such great men as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and ignore the more Trumpian figures who reached the White House.

How Trump made himself the champion of America’s Christian evangelicals

The authors of a new book trace the enduring influence of American Puritanism, and explain how the President appeals to it.

Henry Newman: Johnson must learn from Lincoln, and appoint a Team of Rivals

He will inherit a precarious Parliamentary position, and time for agreement is growing very short.

How Trump appeals to unspeakable emotions

A new book about Holocaust and climate change denial also casts light on the American President.

How did American conservatives end up with Trump?

A new book laments how the Right allowed this bully, fabulist and serial abuser of women to get to the White House.

Trump is powerless and May should avoid him

The American President got elected by infuriating the liberals, but is incapable of governing by the same means.

Luke Tryl: A presidential debate that scraped the bottom of the gutter – which suited Trump nicely

A snap poll found that Hillary Clinton won, but that he exceeded expectations. The Republican candidate proved an effective counter-puncher.