Obama
Charles Krauthammer
The liberal-turned-neocon has a knack of creating phrases which best describe the moment
Samantha Power
Obama’s Dublin-born foreign policy adviser doesn’t like Israel and may wreck Hillary Clinton’s work
Sounds Familiar
The common ground between fine poetry and populist political rhetoric is small, and Maya Angelou has not found it
Keeping Faith
‘Having banished the West’s Judaeo-Christian heritage, we are now investing the advent of Barack Obama with a quasi-messianic significance that no American president can possibly fulfill’
His Master’s Angry Voice
A disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini’s apocalyptic ideology, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is about to turn Iran into a nuclear rogue state
New York: A Cousin in the White House
US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president
Africa Has a Dream: Obama
The new president will be welcomed by most ordinary Africans, if not by their rulers
They Just Don’t Get It
Many Britons – and even some Americans – have a false idea of what the US is really like. Are Hollywood and TV to blame?
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal