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Sean Collins
America: the decline of politics, the rise of tribes
Bush was booed for chasing after the votes of certain racial and cultural groups. Obama is cheered for doing the exact same thing.
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| Wednesday 14 November 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
No country for old white Republicans
As the presidential election showed, the Republican Party is at odds with the permissive mainstream of America.
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| Wednesday 7 November 2012 |
Sean Collins
A small victory in a small campaign
Barack Obama has returned to the White House following one of the most acrimonious, negative and ideas-free campaigns in living memory.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Sean Collins
Hurricane Sandy: a political storm
Pundits’ exploitation of Sandy to big up Barack Obama shows how desperate they have become.
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| Tuesday 2 October 2012 |
Sean Collins
Obama and the end of great expectations
In 2008, Obama won by exciting and raising people’s expectations. In 2012, he hopes to win by lowering them.
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| Thursday 20 September 2012 |
Sean Collins
The real losers in this election are the voters
Romney’s videotaped dismissal of swathes of the electorate will hurt him, but Obama remains a lame duck, too.
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| Thursday 20 September 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
The president who would divide and rule
Romney’s attack on ‘the 47 per cent who pay no income tax’ conveyed his contempt for ordinary Americans.
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| Thursday 13 September 2012 |
Sean Collins
Shouting 'Liar, liar, pants on fire!' is not serious politics
The rise of a tyranny of fact-checkers in the US election, who constantly call out politicians on their ‘lies’, is a very unhealthy development.
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| Thursday 13 September 2012 |
Helen Searls
There’s more to politics than values
The Democrat convention was big on moral posturing about gay marriage and abortion, but short on serious strategy.
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| Monday 10 September 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
US politics: a punch-up between mythmakers
Partisanship is the lifeblood of politics, but in America we now have hyperpartisanship, where blind groupthink is trumping tough debate.
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| Monday 3 September 2012 |
Sean Collins
Romney’s empty suit vs Obama’s empty chair
With the hope hoopla of the 2008 campaign a distant memory, now we have a contest between a letdown president and a vacuous challenger.
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| Tuesday 31 July 2012 |
Tim Black
Mitt Romney’s anti-
nuclear imperialism
Ignore Romney’s gaffes – when it comes to using anti-nuclear sentiment to shore up American power over ‘Them’, he is totally on-message.
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| Monday 30 April 2012 |
Sean Collins
Obama vs Romney: who do you hate least?
Both Obama and Romney are now tossed between public enthusiasm and public disdain, showing just how volatile this campaign has become.
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| Wednesday 11 January 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
Wanted: a president who believes in liberty
Aside from kooky Ron Paul, all the Republican candidates, as well as President Obama himself, have a very un-American attitude to freedom.
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| Wednesday 4 January 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The Iowa caucuses: politics as spectacle
The Republican showdown at Iowa confirms how much spin and personality now dominate US politics.
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| Friday 23 December 2011 |
Sean Collins
Blaming all the president’s men
Journalist Ron Suskind's scintillating account of chaos and dissent in Obama's White House would be better if he had shaken off his teenage habit of blaming everything on Wall Street.
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| Wednesday 23 November 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
It isn’t only Romney who’s lost for words
The coverage of Republican hopefuls’ gaffes hides the fact that the entire US political class has little to say.
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