US Politics

Obama persists in trying to talk to a regime whose “sacred cause” is to replace a US-led world order with an Islamic one

The conventional wisdom on fiscal policy doesn’t add up. A glance at the data and one realises that the media panic is unjustified

In Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland vividly describes the lives of the very rich, but has little to say when it comes to what should be done about this new elite

The people who voted fro Obama to save Medicare and Medicaid are deluding themselves: these programmes won’t be saved by the President’s waffle

To win in 2016, the GOP must resolve the differences between the tea party and country club Republicans, and reach out more successfully to the ethnic vote

‘As the Petraeus story develops, I am left wondering: is the new American morality that one should love the sin, yet hate the sinner?’

‘A couple I know earn $236,000 between them, so why are they so deeply in debt? Their problem, in a word, is education’

There are vital areas of American public life that received next to no attention on the hustings of either side, for very persuasive — if entirely cynical — reasons

The President’s policy on the Arab Spring echoes Jimmy Carter’s reluctance to use force during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80