Washington

Democrats can smell victory in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. But don’t underestimate the Republicans.

Moore has stained the GOP brand, and if the Dems can almost win in Alabama, they can win almost anywhere

Anne Kingston: Led by a Trumpian example, accepting responsibility for bad or even illegal behaviour has become passé

Scott Gilmore: When you consider the large body of evidence that is growing by the day, how can you come to any other conclusion?

A scream once derailed a presidential campaign. Now, Trump is cruising past his senior aide’s guilty plea. No help is coming, writes Andray Domise

Opinion: Trump needs the Republicans’ grip of Congress. But to keep it in 2018’s midterm elections, he’ll have to relinquish his greatest political gift

On the campaign trail in Alabama, Steve Bannon’s anti-establishment Republican forces believed in God—and Moore, their God-fearing candidate

Jones hopes to be the first Democrat elected to the Senate in a quarter-century. His hopes may rest on African-American voter turnout.

Allen Abel reports from a tiny church in the Alabama county that voted more decisively for Trump than any other county in the nation

Scott Gilmore on why the Michael Flynn guilty plea is so momentous, and what it says about the political devastation soon to come