Latest editorial
US DEMOCRATS have picked rightwinger Chuck Schumer as their leader in the Senate, where they have a minority, showing the party is still in denial about the reasons for their election defeat.
Leftwinger Bernie Sanders, whose presidential nomination bid was sabotaged by party apparatchiks, was on Wednesday denied the prestigious post, which became vacant after veteran Harry Reid stepped down after 29 years as a senator.
Mr Sanders has instead been made the Democrats’ outreach chief and will hold focus group meetings of leaders around the country on why billionaire Donald Trump defeated Wall Street favourite Hillary Clinton.
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER