The US and the world look likely to pay a high price for the policies of Trump’s ruthless health secretary

It started with seizures of immigrants in factories and troops on the streets – and ended with nannies taken from parks and a tide of resistance that has surprised activists

The president has used them to mobilise troops, antagonise a rival and create the sense of a crisis only he can solve

Students in detention, free speech threatened, a paranoid campus divided. JD Vance called for attacks on American universities… and now New York truly is a battleground