Fighting Fit

Obama’s first problem is US war crimes

The president-elect has to take a stand on Bush’s dark legacy

Obama lures Hillary with a golden straitjacket

Persuading Clinton to be secretary of state will allow Obama to play good cop to her bad

Republicans need this identity crisis

After electoral ruin, the US right is split like the Tories of 1997, but there is a way back

Obama means business – just ask his Battering Rahm

The Democrats may hold Congress but the president-elect faces tough battles there, hence his choice of a fierce exponent of hardball as chief of staff

Obama has got identity politics on the run

The Democrat is winning because he is reaching across old racial and gender lines

Obama rides his landslide machine

The Democrat is heading for a huge win, thanks to a masterful courting of new voters

Beep, beep: Road Runner lets McCain blow up

Barack Obama’s strategy of calm is provoking his rival into fatal errors

Behind the lipstick, the pitbull vanishes

Sarah Palin’s performance in last week’s big debate revealed her emptiness

Dictator Bush’s great illusion is exposed

The president thinks he is above the law. Mercifully, he is now being challenged

Tweedledum or Tweedledumber

The US economy is in crisis but neither presidential candidate has a credible solution

The fright begins as McCain reveals his reckless side

Sarah Palin has opposed his key policies, so why did he pick her?

Wily Obama beats McCain on strategy

America is at war with lethal enemies, its economy is teetering, its people are unsettled. And McCain gave us a 44-year-old former beauty queen

If it’s war we want, McCain will deliver

The Republican candidate has been in his element during the past week

The doubts starting to rein back Obama

The senator has stalled in the polls as voters start to fear handing both the presidency and Congress to the left

Obama and McCain blur battle lines

Something very strange and a little unnerving is happening in American politics - two political rivals are in danger of agreeing

A new Atlantic right rediscovers society

The British way of life is as crucial to British success as any economics or government programme

Obama captures the centre ground

Slowly and subtly, Barack Obama is wiping out every reason to vote for McCain

Confident Obama maps out his landslide

Behind Barack Obama’s cockiness is a steely ambition that has already upended the formidable Clintons. I wouldn’t bet against him

McCain fails to benefit from Iraq vindications

Mesopotamia has proved treacherous for many politicians, but few have as much right to be frustrated as John McCain