America on a rocky and uncertain road

Caroline O’Doherty captures the mood as the United States gears up to vote for its next president

The Greyhound bus driver used her sweetest sing-song voice in making the appeal over the public address system.

“Turn off your moo-vie,” she twittered. “Especially the language that is not appropriate for being on a bu-us.” Her appeal, to a passenger talking loudly on his mobile, was heard by everyone but him.