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Obama scuttles. America retreats. Things fall apart

The 44th President of the United States replaced Pax Americana with a new world disorder. Will the 45th learn from his mistakes?

December 15, 2014

Features·US Politics

Presidential Imperialism

F.H Buckley's The Once and Future King is a worthy contribution to the great discourse on liberty and power

October 28, 2014

Books·US Politics

As America Retreats, the World Goes to Hell

The Ukraine crisis has revealed the incoherence of the Obama doctrine. Until the US reasserts itself, liberal democracy is in danger

March 24, 2014

Features·US Politics

Republicans Cannot Go On As The ‘Party Of No’

For American conservatives to return to the White House in 2016, they must stop running up an escalator that is moving down

December 17, 2013

Features·US Politics

‘Obama Watching’

Andrew Roberts's US dispatches are available as an ebook

October 4, 2013

Online Only·US Politics

Who Can Stop Hilary in 2016?

Three years away from the Presidential election, the Democrat and Republican candidates are already having a tilt at the Oval Office

August 27, 2013

Dispatches·US Politics

Obama’s Secrets Start Unravelling

'When the leaders of China and the US met in June, one was accused of serious civil liberties violations, the seizure of journalists' phone and email records and the use of state

June 24, 2013

Dispatches·US Politics

Save the NYPD So It Can Save the City

‘Without stop-and-search, Kelly estimates that he would need an extra 50,000 officers to police the city because people who don’t run the risk of being searched start carrying guns’

May 28, 2013

Dispatches·Policing·US Politics

From Hegel to Hagel

The US's new Secretary of Defence should behave a little less like his Prussian near namesake and avoid hero-worshipping foreign military prowess

April 23, 2013

Counterpoints·US Politics

Americans Know Her True Worth. Do We?

'The reaction to lady thatcher's death in the US brought an avalanche of affection and praise both on the Right and the Left'

April 22, 2013

Dispatches·UK Politics·US Politics

Constitutional Ignoramus

In attempting to answer his question Why Tolerate Religion, Chicago philosopher Brian Leiter wilfully neglects the impact of the Judaeo-Christian tradition on Western civilisation

April 22, 2013

Books·Constitutional Affairs·Faith·US Politics

The Dawn of Obamageddon

'The Obama administration has done everything in its power to terrify ordinary Americans with his dystopian vision of what the sequester will mean to them'

March 25, 2013

Dispatches·US Politics