Lindsey Hilsum
“We want answers,” a woman clutching the stars and stripes tells Channel 4 News, as others broke into song, on the street where the second Boston Marathon bomb suspect was arrested.
Matt Frei
Despite an outpouring of public anguish after the Newtown massacre, gun control measures called for at the time now seem impossibly ambitious in the face of US political realities.
Talk of all-consuming hell-fire and nuclear war sounds grim. But North Korea’s violent sabre-rattling must be viewed in context.
Matt Frei
Despite years in the limelight as president of the US, George W Bush is now proving rather elusive- even in his home state of Texas, finds Matt Frei.
Hitler said if you disarm a nation, you conquer it – one of the many myths used by the pro-gun lobby to justify America’s love affair with arms. We put the claims to the test.
It’s hard for gun-phobic Brits to get their heads around America’s love affair with guns – so I went to Texas to hear some locals explain it in their own words.
Matt Frei
It could be one of the biggest issues of Barack Obama’s presidency. Can the US let go of its guns? Matt Frei takes a look in the first of our special series, Guns in America.
North Korea’s latest propaganda video shows a rocket attack on New York but, as John Sparks asks, is anyone listening?
Matt Frei
Drones are the corner stone of Barack Obama’s security policy, but the debate is now raging in the CIA and beyond on whether the unmanned and unseen weapons are counter productive, and driving recruits to al-Qaeda.
Matt Frei
Instead of reading his opponents the riot attack, should Barack Obama not have used his inaugural address to pay more attention to healing his nation’s ills?
Want a legacy? Then look abroad – for a chance to leave an impact on the world. But will America’s role be much more limited – as Obama’s new team seeks continuity, not change?
Lindsey Hilsum
Euroscpetics may say that Britain can rely on the US if it moves away from the EU. But that’s not how it looks from across the pond.
Jon Snow
After the Newtown massacre, assaulting gun control will be seen as a key challenge if Obama is to come close the reputation of his presidential hero, Abraham Lincoln.
Can a wheelchair really jump a 50ft ramp just like a BMX? It’s a question few would have bothered pondering a few months ago. Well, yes it can.
Matt Frei
His place in history is already assured – but can a greyer, wiser Barack Obama, less crushed by expectation, finally live up to his promise as president?