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| Friday 20 January 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The Obamas: from ‘Yes we can!’ to ‘No we can’t!’
Jodi Kantor’s gossipy account of America’s first couple reveals their struggle to adjust to the anti-climatic reality of government.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Sean Collins
Turning protest into a freakfest
Why do the great and good of America want to be best friends with the Occupy Wall Street oddballs?
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The disenfranchised majority kicks back
Occupy Wall Street may be incoherent, but it’s a long overdue reaction to an out-of-touch political class.
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| Thursday 6 October 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The wannabe tyrants of Wall Street
Disdainful and conspiracy-minded, the protesters claiming to speak for all Americans are acting like teenage despots.
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| Thursday 15 September 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
An election where everyone’s a loser
The victory of a little-known businessman over a New York Democrat reveals much about the state of US politics.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
President Obama’s Summertime Blues
Yes, his approval ratings have plummeted, but Republicans shouldn’t gloat: Americans have had it with the whole political class.
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| Tuesday 2 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
The real cause of the US debt crisis? Slow growth
The pantomime political debate about the debt ceiling is distracting attention from the parlous state of the productive economy.
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| Tuesday 28 June 2011 |
Tim Black
Mission accomplished? What mission, exactly?
It’s fitting that the aimless, pointless Afghan War is being wound down according to a timetable drawn up in a White House backroom.
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| Monday 13 June 2011 |
Tim Black
Putting Palin on the rack, twenty-first-century style
The liberal media’s gleeful ogling of Sarah Palin’s private emails captures what lies at the heart of today’s leaking culture: low political prurience.
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| Thursday 9 June 2011 |
Sean Collins
Weiner: what a rubbish sex scandal
The Anthony Weiner incident shows that politicians are now so lame that they don’t even do scandal well.
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| Monday 6 June 2011 |
Sean Collins
‘Mediscare’: the US politics of fear
The debate over Medicare shows that both Republicans and Democrats now rely on panic over principle.
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| Wednesday 27 April 2011 |
Wendy Kaminer
The war between fact and fallacy in US politics
When a senator excuses an erroneous comment by saying ‘it was not intended to be factual’, where’s the line between reality and fantasy?
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| Wednesday 13 April 2011 |
Sean Collins
US budget showdown: the politics of pantomime
For all the attempts to talk up the budget clash as a great historical drama, in truth it revealed the pathetic state of American politics.
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| Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
Tim Black
The gulf between rhetoric and reality
The hypocrisy of the demands for intervention in Libya is exposed by the near-silence over the crackdown in Bahrain.
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| Tuesday 1 March 2011 |
Sean Collins
A faux war in Wisconsin
This is not a return of class war to America. It’s a clash between nervous-nellie Republicans and trade unions that can only play the victim card.
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| Tuesday 15 February 2011 |
Sean Collins
Obama on Egypt: more confused than cool
The idea that Obama played it ‘brilliantly cool’ on Egypt represents a spectacular rewriting of history.
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| Wednesday 6 October 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Playing politics with terror alerts
President Obama’s anti-terror advice to Americans in Europe was actually about rebuking European governments.
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| Monday 27 September 2010 |
Sean Collins
In the Tea Party debate, who’s really acting crazy?
Liberal activists’ dismissal of the Tea Party as ‘insane’ only shows how cut-off they are from the American masses.
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| Tuesday 17 August 2010 |
Sean Collins
The Culture War over the Ground Zero mosque
It’s hard to know who’s worse in the NYC mosque debate: the opportunistic, anti-Muslim right or the Muslim-loving, masses-fearing liberals.
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| Thursday 24 June 2010 |
Sean Collins
Staging a mutiny in Rolling Stone magazine
General McChrystal’s anti-Obama blabbing to a hippie mag exposes the internal disarray of the US elite.
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