Expect an intense fight for New York’s third congressional district

   Our new poll makes alarming reading

   The automatic right to vote from home helped make the state’s turnout the highest in America

   They provide welcome demand even as offices shrink

   And what might happen if Trump dropped out

   See the latest odds and our guide to the contest

   Fights over the Endangered Species Act test the frontiers between science and politics

   The bankruptcy case may turn on the justices’ sense of justice

   He believed that ruthlessly idealistic journalism would renew faith in government

   America’s first female justice, who died on December st aged , once steered the Supreme Court but it has since changed course

   The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals makes SCOTUS look moderate by comparison

   A God fearing Texas tycoon is challenging it

   We crunch the house price data across every American county and make a surprising finding

   Are carrots or sticks the right way to bring them home

   Who’s to blame for an embarrassing packaging problem

   The deal is a case study in unsavoury trade offs

   The doyen of American statecraft died on November th, aged

   Is the governors’ debate a glimpse of an alternative reality, or of what’s to come

   Under the network’s new owners, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

   Now Congress is getting involved

   In Georgia, one big hospital has interpreted state law to mean periviable babies must be kept alive

   The views expressed by Elon Musk in a short message are more widespread than you think

   Or: What America can learn from Sparta

   That is despite a huge push by the Biden administration

   So far, America’s judges have been reluctant to involve themselves in the election

   Pop ups and supper clubs are booming in America

   The Supreme Court’s deference to faith based objectors has buoyed their claims

   New York City is left wondering about Hizzoner’s honour

   The newly elected president of Saffronia is granted an audience in the West Wing

   The hidden impacts of gun crime are devastating and poorly understood

   The new Republican speaker avoids an immediate shutdown without losing his job

   But the justices may find they need to go further

   But their wins say little about Joe Biden’s prospects

   The decline of HIV may be partly to blame

   The conservative justices on America’s highest court balked at the prospect of arming domestic abusers

   Growth in inland areas comes with its own risks

   But it still may not be right to rechristen a building named after a slave trader

   Should Democrats worry about black voters’ attitudes to newcomers

   If America’s presidential election were held tomorrow, he would probably win

   Conservatives see a fiscal triumph, while critics warn of a looming disaster

   Lessons for the party from a state Donald Trump won easily

   Elvis’s cousin, health and tax cuts are on the ballot in America’s poorest state

   Campus protesters for Palestine are lowering the bar for hate speech

   The Supreme Court is weighing the answer

   A mismanaged training system has artificially depressed the supply of medics

   In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true

   Some small changes to building design can result in many fewer dead migrating birds

   They are pointless, lucrative and generally a force for good

   A new biography shows how far that slide has gone

   How the GOP went from isolationism to internationalism and back again