Colbert’s pungent wit takes social change out of satireOpinion: new US ‘Late Show’ host has surgical wit but is no radicalMon Apr 14 2014 - 01:00
Washington has nothing on ‘Game of Thrones’Opinion: US senate seems tame after the cut and thrust of one of Barack Obama’s favourite seriesMon Apr 7 2014 - 01:00
Jerry Brown mellows on Hillary Clinton and ‘Slick Willie’Governor of California says former adversary is in strong position for White HouseMon Mar 24 2014 - 01:00
Distressed Democrats desperate for some – any – action from ObamaAhead of the midterms, a sense of malaise is building around Obama and the DemocratsMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:01
Obama can add misspelled Aretha anthem to list of disappointmentsThere are many things the unpopular US president just doesn’t getMon Mar 10 2014 - 01:00
Hillary Clinton shapes up for the resurgence of US dynastic politicsThe Clintons don’t get defeated in elections: they get postponedMon Mar 3 2014 - 01:00
Pat’s Day parade an antediluvian step backwardsOpinion: Pope Francis has shown a more conciliatory attitude to gays than some US clericsThu Feb 27 2014 - 00:01
Christie’s meaty pugilism puts a punch in US politicsThe New Jersey governor is a stark contrast to the wan ObamaMon Feb 24 2014 - 01:00
French president’s crass, melodramatic antics worthy of lesser mortalsFrançois Hollande is thought to be a loser in the US because he’s so unrefined he might as well be AmericanMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Media’s toxic world enough to make us all mad as hellOpinion: We’ve gone so far beyond the scenario depicted in ‘Network’ that we should be scared as hellMon Feb 10 2014 - 01:00
Paul defends party by raking up Bill’s affairRepublican up in arms over Democrats’ ‘war on women’ claimsMon Feb 3 2014 - 01:00
Reefer gladness: Mile High City’s pitch to the high-end weed smokerPot entrepeneurs are trying to cast Denver as the Napa Valley of cannabisMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
‘Mitt’ peels the plastic away from RomneyOpinion: a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the former candidate for the US presidency does what his Republican advisers could notMon Jan 20 2014 - 01:00
Chris Christie still outside my ‘circle of trust’New Jersey governor’s grovelling apology rings hollowMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
New York police commissioner is going to need exquisite balanceBratton must walk the line between police department and mayor’s officeSun Jan 5 2014 - 19:05
Lame criticism’s happy talk is the enemy of truthWhile intellectuals can be kind and nice, their job is to expose mediocrityMon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
Flawed but fascinating Woodrow WilsonMaureen Dowd: the 28th president of the US was an unlikely lotharioMon Dec 9 2013 - 01:00
Vicious gender divide in US comedy and politics is no laughing matterComedian Sarah Silverman wants Hillary Clinton to take a voice classMon Nov 11 2013 - 07:31
Surveillance culture is the enemy of bizarre love trianglesThe extension of information obsession to the field of intimacy ruins the mystery, poetry and suspenseSun Nov 3 2013 - 19:40
Sir Lecturealot Obama needs to realise he cannot reconcile in absentiaThe US president always conveys tedium at the idea that he has to persuade people to go along with himMon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00
Rumsfeld still falling down rabbit holesFormer secretary of defence is still not admitting his historic blundersMon Oct 14 2013 - 01:00
Dystopian view of United States not that fancifulTea Party zombies continue to maraud around the HillMon Oct 7 2013 - 01:00
Utah data death star is symbol of NSA’s reach into US citizen’s livesThe Bluffdale sinkhole has quietly started sucking in mountains of dataSun Sep 29 2013 - 18:22
Buffett is rare beacon of common sense in the US83-year-old is full of philanthropic good advice and investing wisdomMon Sep 23 2013 - 01:02
Obama’s war withinColumn: on the issue of Syrian intervention the US president has been deserted by his powers of persuasionSun Sep 8 2013 - 19:03
From food stamps to Washington DC police chiefCathy Lanier rose from poverty to become a popular chief of police in the US capitalMon Sep 2 2013 - 01:00
Ousting Obama an obsession for RepublicansImpeaching the president remains the Holy Grail for an embittered GOPSun Aug 25 2013 - 17:12
Money makes the Clintons’ world go aroundBill and Hillary Clinton want to do worthy deeds with their foundation while squeezing the wealthy for their own enrichmentMon Aug 19 2013 - 01:00
Obama outmanoeuvred in image stakes by shadow campaign for Madam PresidentHillary Clinton is soaking up a disproportionate amount of attention and energy, as if she was already presidentMon Aug 12 2013 - 01:00
The ‘big, pushy broad’ pushing to be mayor of New YorkChristine Quinn would be the first female and openly gay mayor of New York city, if she lit the sparkMon Aug 5 2013 - 01:00
Weiner’s wife and the voting public should delete the sexting cybercreepCompared with Bill Clinton, there is nothing in the New York mayoral hopeful’s public life that is redeemingMon Jul 29 2013 - 01:00
Comment: Rifleman shoots from hip with testimony on murders for BulgerWhitey Bulger and his one-time gang partner faced each other across a Boston courtroomMon Jul 22 2013 - 17:06
The politics of lingerie can be incendiaryA Paris exhibition gets behind the seams of historic underwearSun Jul 14 2013 - 01:00
It’s the end of the world as French know itOpinion: Widening chasms between sectors of society are creating new divisionsMon Jul 8 2013 - 09:00
A zombie film that’s missing the best ingredientsOpinion: the scariest thing about ‘World War Z’ is the dearth of creativity in HollywoodMon Jun 24 2013 - 09:00
Obama takes lesson from Clinton on SyriaThe US president likes to cite opinion polls to justify his action or inactionMon Jun 17 2013 - 01:00
From Microsoft’s high ranks to the gritty alleys of downtown Washington DCPatty Stonesifer scaled the heights of corporate America but now devotes her time to helping the poorMon Jun 3 2013 - 01:00
George W library and museum beats about the BushOpinion: a monument to the 43rd president of the United States offers a selective presentation of his lifeMon May 27 2013 - 02:00
Under-fire Obama should drop the wistful, petulant approachPresident tries to bounces back from an array of sins not even his faultMon May 20 2013 - 01:00
Accusatory theatrics cannot mask how US administration failed in BenghaziIn this hottest of hot spots, the state department’s minimum security requirements were not metMon May 13 2013 - 01:00
A theme-park film of ‘The Great Gatsby’ for a phony AmericaBaz Luhrmann’s gaudy 3D version of F Scott’s Fitzgerald’s novel looks like Jay Gatsby made itMon May 6 2013 - 06:00
Barbara Bush signals the end of the Bush dynastyThe 87-year-old former first lady acknowledged that George W Bush had worn out the family’s welcome in the White HouseMon Apr 29 2013 - 06:00
Obama gives in to defeatism on gun control BillThe US president failed in the Senate because he hates selling laws to lawmakersSun Apr 21 2013 - 15:49
Can we get Hillary without the foolery?The ‘will she run?’ question is increasingly redundant – of course she’s runningMon Apr 8 2013 - 06:18
Listen up! Journalism needs to start believing in itself once again‘Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks’Sun Mar 10 2013 - 12:00
A corporate cheerleader for feminismSheryl Sandberg is not one to settle for being the It Girl of Silicon Valley.Mon Feb 25 2013 - 00:00
Dramatic tension not a valid reason for 'Lincoln' falsityOPINION: Spielberg had three historical advisers but the film still had historical bloopers – and it’s not aloneMon Feb 18 2013 - 00:00
Bush exposure paints an ugly portrait of futureOpinion: Hackers could shut down the way we live and determine how we dieMon Feb 11 2013 - 00:00
Is gun control but one target in Cuomo's sights?The NY governor moved swiftly with an arms Bill. What was his motivation?Mon Jan 21 2013 - 00:00
Obama not giving women much of a liftOpinion: President Barack Obama ran promoting women’s issues – but how about promoting some women?Mon Jan 14 2013 - 00:00