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    'US democracy faces toughest test in a century'
The US democractic system has set for itself "the toughest test for at least a century", national correspondent for The Atlantic James Fallows has told the Today programme.
Mr Fallows came to this conclusion having recorded daily the things Donald Trump did that were "outside the modern norms" expected from a presidential candidate.
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