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Luke Gittos
Laws should be made by The People, not judges
US Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia is unpopular with liberals, but he has a point about democracy.
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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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| Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
The political storm over climate change
The fallout from Hurricane Sandy confirms how hard it is to have a rational debate about climatic issues.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
New York: standing tall against nature’s wrath
Let’s praise the manmade structures that withstood Sandy’s fury rather than fretting about allegedly manmade Frankenstorms.
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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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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Nancy McDermott
Sandy was a bitch, not the apocalypse
This storm reminded us that nature can be tough but that the people of New York are even tougher.
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| Wednesday 31 October 2012 |
Alan Miller
Keeping calm and carrying on
A Manhattan resident, reporting from the eye of the storm, is glad to find New York’s leaders acting rationally.
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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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| Monday 1 October 2012 |
Wendy Kaminer
Sacrificing free speech to the heckler’s veto
The defacement of anti-Muslim ads on the New York subway was not an act of free speech - it was an act of censorship of offensive views.
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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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| Tuesday 18 September 2012 |
Sean Collins
Giving the green light to grievance
The Obama administration seems to see free speech as a bigger problem than attacks on its overseas embassies.
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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 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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| Monday 9 July 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Just shut up about school meals
Another government initiative to improve school dinners? Don’t officials have better things to do with their time?
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| Wednesday 30 May 2012 |
Nancy McDermott
Etan Patz: the case that changed America
Thirty-three years on, a man has been arrested for the murder of six-year-old Etan. But America is still reeling from that abduction.
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| Monday 2 April 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Trayvon Martin and the
myth of racist America
In the US, everyone with a cause to champion and an emotion to release is latching on to the teenager's murder.
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| Thursday 22 March 2012 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Why clicktivism now makes us switch off
President Obama is better than most politicians at exploiting social media, but even he can fall victim to mocking memes.
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| Wednesday 21 March 2012 |
Sean Collins
Goading Goldman Sachs: a new sport
Half self-promotion, half banker-bashing, there was nothing brave about Greg Smith's resignation letter.
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| Thursday 16 February 2012 |
Sean Collins
Why the contraception controversy matters
American liberals are wrong: Obama’s contraception rule is a violation of important religious liberties.
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