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Republican legislature latest to make polls more secure in wake of Trump’s fraud claims
‘Jim Crow in the 21st century’: Biden denounces Georgia’s new voting law
New law signed by Republican governor represents ‘blatant attack on constitution’
America is not responsible for the decline in democracy
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Ted Cruz among Republican senators opposed to certifying US election results
Trump yet to concede presidential race to Biden despite losing by more than 7m votes
Seán Moncrieff: I’ve fallen out of love with America
There’s a darkness I never saw before. Perhaps it was papered over by all that positivity
Lovecraft Country: American TV shows its true colours. And it’s exhilarating
Racist sheriffs, not tentacled beasts, provide the real scares in this take on Jim Crow’s US
Barack Obama makes stirring case for voting reform in US
Former president calls for expanded early voting and national holiday during Lewis eulogy
US civil rights pioneer and congressman John Lewis dies aged 80
Lewis’s personal history paralleled that of the civil rights movement from Selma to George Floyd
Being president has distilled Donald Trump to his Trumpiest essence
Maureen Dowd: Occupant of the White House is badly out of step with US national psyche
Trump under fire from US military after troops threat
President criticised by Mattis and Kelly as Republican senator ‘struggles’ to back him
‘Gay cake’ row: Bakers don’t change laws. Politicians do
Sean Moncrieff: The Ashers case may have held back marriage equality in the North
Triumph of American values has left US unsure of its own identity
US Politics: How does a nation define itself when what made it distinct has become commonplace?
Serena Williams cartoon: outrage-mongering or old-fashioned racism?
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Martin Luther King, America’s ‘naked, brazen challenger’: by Fintan O’Toole
King’s murder 50 years ago in Memphis represented an irreparable loss to humanity
Trump’s ‘s**thole’ comments are no surprise to this Irish woman in America
I’ve had my accent mocked, small potatoes compared to what other immigrants face
Sharecropper who fought for justice after 1944 rape in Alabama
Recy Taylor obituary: Born December 31st, 1919 – Died December 28th, 2017
Trump tribute to US civil rights activists spurs protest
Mississippi demonstrators hold signs saying ‘Make America Civil Again’ and ‘Lock Him Up’
What fate awaits the removed Confederate statues?
As civil war statues come down in the US, new uses are being sought for them
Trump wades into history with comments on monument removal
Analysis: Trump’s comments drew negative reactions from many historians
Trump’s election made right-wing violence inevitable
Anti-racists should focus less on symbols and more on present-day manifestations
‘There’s no way you can love Otis Redding the way I do and still be afraid of black people’
Growing up in Alabama gave Jason Isbell a deeper insight into race relations in the US
How the swastika became a Confederate flag
American racism played role in notorious Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which set Germany on the road to Holocaust
Brian Boyd: We have reached Peak Synthetic Outrage
Stories about Pepsi, United Airlines and Sean Spicer ticked the “social media storm/online backlash” boxes but none of them stand up
US presidential debate: fact-check on Trump and Clinton’s claims
Is the Clinton Foundation a ‘criminal enterprise,’ and has Trump ever spoken with Putin?
Want tragic? Then visit the VIP area of an Irish music festival
Brian Boyd: If you must go to a music festival . . . please keep it to yourself
Marshawn Lynch’s silence speaks volumes in Superbowl promotion circus
Seahawks running back’s refusal to answer media questions has highlighted just how much nonsense, how much silliness, precedes big sports events
Flawed but fascinating Woodrow Wilson
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