United States | Newsletter

Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump revives McKinley’s imperial legacy

William McKinley.
Photograph: Getty Images

This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America.

More from United States

President Donald Trump talks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president

Impoundment is about to come a step closer

Incoming "border czar" and former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tom Homan speaks during a visit to Camp Eagle, Eagle Pass, Texas, USA.

Tom Homan, unleashed

America’s new border czar spent decades waiting for a president like Donald Trump


Voters in North Carolina

An unfinished election may shape a swing state’s future

A Supreme Court race ended very close. Then the lawyers arrived.


Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown

His executive orders range from benign to belligerent

To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution

A change would also create huge practical problems

Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime

His dark website, the Silk Road, was to crime what Napster was to music