Anywhere but Washington

In 2016, white evangelicals made up a quarter of all US voters. And 81% of them voted for Donald Trump. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to the pivotal battleground state of North Carolina to see if Trump's religious base is showing signs of crumbling. They meet extreme evangelical pastors, travelling progressive preachers and the moral movement leader Rev William Barber  

After winning the 2016 election, Donald Trump promised to deliver new jobs and economic prosperity to Youngstown, Ohio, a city suffering from decades of decline. But four years on those promises never manifested. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet residents who lost their jobs and had their families split by economic necessity, and witness how the demise of the city’s only newspaper made it harder to hold politicians accountable for their failures

Joe Biden won the nomination for president on the shoulders of older Black voters in the US south. But how do younger, progressive people of colour feel about his candidacy in the southern state of Georgia, in play for the first time in decades? And will a dangerous campaign of QAnon disinformation have any bearing on the outcome of the election? Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone try to find out

Texas is a rapidly changing state with the fastest growing population in America. Hispanic Texans are set to become the majority by 2022, but will this help Joe Biden flip a Republican stronghold? Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to suburban Dallas and the border city of McAllen to look at the political impact of this diversification and the legacy of Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies 

With six weeks until the most important election in a generation, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone are crossing the US to uncover the political fault lines that underpin American politics. In the vital swing state of Florida, the race for the White House is tightening by the day

With record numbers of female candidates in the US midterm elections, Paul Lewis travels to New Mexico, where both the Democrat and the Republican standing for a House seat are women. He finds women divided – over Trump, the MeToo movement, and Deb Haaland, a Democrat campaigning to be the first Native American woman elected to Congress

Richard Ojeda, a retired army major, is a Democrat running in a West Virginia district that voted for Donald Trump. But how does a leftwing populist explain his own vote for the president?

As Donald Trump seeks congressional support for his border wall, Paul Lewis meets Joe Arpaio, the disgraced Arizona sheriff recently pardoned by Trump, and other local Republicans who are enraged over what they describe as an 'invasion' from Mexico. But he discovers a very different view in the Tohono O'odham Nation, a Native American tribe with members on both sides of the border

Vladimir Putin’s favorability ratings have tripled among Republicans in recent years – could his rising popularity be explained through Christian evangelicals?