George Bush

Lee Daniels: ‘Studios will give you about $10 to make a black movie’

The maverick director makes the films no one else would dare to – persuading Oprah to break her acting drought, and Nicole Kidman to pee on Zac Efron. What’s his next coup?

Hadley Freeman

20, Feb, 2021 @12:00 PM

George Shultz obituary

Secretary of state to Ronald Reagan who worked with Mikhail Gorbachev to help end the cold war

Ewen MacAskill

07, Feb, 2021 @10:46 PM

Obama, Clinton and Bush pledge to take Covid vaccine on TV to show its safety

Trio’s promise comes as FDA works towards deciding whether to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine

Adam Gabbatt

03, Dec, 2020 @4:18 PM

More than a second gentleman: why Doug Emhoff is Kamala Harris’ secret weapon | Hadley Freeman

I’m not obsessed with Doug, but he could probably be my pub quiz subject

Hadley Freeman

21, Nov, 2020 @9:00 AM

The Man Who Ran Washington review: James Baker as Republican titan from an age long gone

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are superb on the ‘Velvet Hammer’, who served Reagan and the Bushes but also reached across the aisle

Lloyd Green

11, Oct, 2020 @4:00 AM

US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility | David Vine

Since the war on terror, the US has contributed to displacing an estimated 37 million people, according to new research

David Vine

18, Sep, 2020 @10:29 AM

The Chicks: ‘We were used and abused by everybody who wanted to make money off us’

The Dixie Chicks were cancelled in 2003 for criticising George W Bush’s Iraq war. Three divorces and one name change later, they’re back

Laura Snapes

18, Jul, 2020 @11:00 AM

John Lewis obituary

Civil rights activist committed to non-violent protest for six decades and a fiercely independent Democratic congressman

Michael Carlson

18, Jul, 2020 @10:07 AM

'Axis of adults': are the White House staff working together to keep Trump in line?

John Bolton says the president is surrounded with responsible advisers, but an ‘axis’ needs more than just a circle

Steven Poole

24, Jun, 2020 @2:24 PM

George W Bush paved the way for Trump – to rehabilitate him is appalling | Arwa Mahdawi

We don’t have to rewrite the former president’s record just because the incumbent is unleashing his own campaign of shock and awfulness, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Arwa Mahdawi

06, May, 2020 @6:00 AM

Why Democrats share the blame for the rise of Donald Trump | Robert Reich

I was part of a Democratic administration that failed to fix a rigged system – I know our current president is a symptom of our disunion, not its only cause

Robert Reich

02, Feb, 2020 @6:00 AM