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Clinton’s memoir shows she is fit to be president, but she’s not giving anything away just yet.
With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.
America is a country of mad people governed by buffoons. That’s the way a lot of Europeans are content to see it, writes <b>Martin Kettle</b>.
It’s great the internet has engaged us in Australian elections and Alaska, but language has cut Europe from our mental maps.
Let’s be clear about this: Barack Obama has achieved an immense and historic victory.
The presidency is not won or lost by televised knockabout, but Obama has taken the opportunity to confirm his credentials.
On April 30 the Boston Globe journalist Charlie Savage wrote an article whose contents become more astonishing the more one reads them. Over the past five years, Savage reported,…
The soccer World Cup fills me with dread. I want to look, but also to look away. Not because I don’t like football. I do. Not because I’m fussed about the St George flag. I’m all…
If the great history lesson of the 20th century is that socialism does not work, then the watershed event in that tragic enlightenment was the one that took place in Moscow 50…
A crisis? Sure. But which one and whose? As the results sank in on Sunday, the clever men in suits on France’s TV5 reeled off plenty to choose from: a European crisis; a domestic…
Watching and listening to Bush in Brussels this week it was impossible not to see that this is a very different politician from the one who was taped by Doug Wead as he weighed…
Among the half a million demonstrators peacefully thronging the streets of Manhattan last Sunday, the verdict against George W Bush was instantly familiar to any visiting…
Listening to Tony Blair, you hear the same unvarying judgement of the current state of the nation. Iraq was right. Bush is okay. The security situation is going badly, but it has…
If there is one thing that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has never underestimated, it is the importance of an American presidential election in shaping the dynamics of…
When the nine justices who make up the United States supreme court pronounce on a case involving racial issues, it is not just Americans who listen, but nations around the whole…
The US State Department is holding a two-day conference on the spread of anti-American attitudes around the world. It sounds too good to miss. But miss it most of us will,…
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was on Wednesday preparing to send a team of negotiators to Washington to meet a Palestinian delegation.
