• November 23 2024
  FT Magazine

  The mind-bending new science of measuring time

  In windowless labs in Colorado sit the 20 atomic clocks the world sets its watch by. They’re barely keeping up

  
• November 7 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  How Trump won in maps and charts

  President-elect gained ground in all but one state and is on course to win the popular vote

  
• November 5 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Early indicators point to bumper turnout across US swing states

  Harris and Trump campaigns each claim advantage on busy polling day

  
• November 5 2024
  News in-depthUS presidential election 2024

  The 7 charts that define the 2024 US presidential campaign

  Visualising a frenzied race for the White House

  
• November 3 2024
  Crossword

  Sunday Number 65: US Puzzle

  
• October 30 2024
  Behind the Money podcast20 min listen

  US election betting is on a roll

  In the months leading up to election day, people from around the world have placed millions of dollars in wagers on who will be the next American president

  
• October 29 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  One week to go: what is the state of the US presidential race?

  Trump and Harris are fighting the most volatile and unpredictable White House contest in living memory

  
• October 26 2024
  The Weekend Essay

  What the polls can’t tell us about America’s election

  A torrent of data on the presidential race seems to get us no closer to predicting the result. Is addiction to polling distracting people from the issues at stake?

  
• October 25 2024
  News in-depthUS presidential election 2024

  The US swing states bombarded with billion-dollar ad blitz

  Pivotal battlegrounds are being swamped by messaging from Harris and Trump campaigns

  
• October 21 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Trump closes Harris’s polling lead in election swing states

  Republican candidate seizes momentum from Democratic rival with just two weeks left in campaign

  
• October 18 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Burst of trades inflates Trump’s margin in election prediction markets

  Small group of bettors lifts odds of Republican victory to 62 per cent on cryptocurrency-based Polymarket

  
• October 18 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Why Trump, Harris and the world are watching the small Midwest city of Omaha

  Winning the White House depends on winning the US electoral college — and Nebraska could be critical

  
• October 5 2024
  Crossword

  Sunday Number 61: US Puzzle

  
• October 5 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  The swing state battles that will win the US election

  From a ‘blue wall’ to the American desert, these are the places where the 2024 presidential race will be decided

  
• September 27 2024
  News in-depthUS presidential election 2024

  Does Kamala Harris have enough Pennsylvania voters to win?

  The Democratic candidate is behind Donald Trump in the registration race in the election’s defining battleground state

  
• September 25 2024
  Visual story

  Can you mastermind a US presidential campaign?

  Compete for the White House against other readers in the Election Game

  
• September 10 2024
  ExplainerUS presidential election 2024

  Who is winning the US presidential race?

  Kamala Harris has more cash but the swing state battle with Donald Trump is on a knife-edge, FT analysis shows

  
• September 7 2024
  Crossword

  Sunday Number 57: US Puzzle

  
• September 4 2024
  US presidential election 2024

  Harris vs Trump: tracking the 2024 US presidential ad battle

  Live charts and maps of spending across the country as White House race heats up

  
• August 21 2024
  News in-depthUS economy

  Cooling US jobs market looms over central bankers at Jackson Hole

  The Federal Reserve has brought down inflation but must now steer the economy away from recession

  
• August 12 2024
  News in-depthUS Inflation Reduction Act

  Delays hit 40% of Biden’s major IRA manufacturing projects

  FT research shows that $84bn of initiatives announced in first year of the IRA and Chips Act have experienced slowdowns

  
• August 10 2024
  Crossword

  Sunday Number 53: US Puzzle

  
• August 2 2024
  FT Magazine

  Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft

  When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

  
• August 2 2024
  FT Magazine

  Is political prognostication a fool’s game? 

  As forecasters are finding, there are few reliable fundamentals in US politics in 2024

  
• July 31 2024
  ExplainerUS presidential election 2024

  Harris draws level with Trump in race for the White House

  FT polling analysis shows the Democrats’ probable candidate has revitalised her party’s campaign in just over a week