The popular image of the American creationist is a Republican Neanderthal with an IQ in single figures and passages from Genesis tattooed on his right arm. He spends summertime at the Creation Museum ... Read More

There are signs that the GOP is going soft on gay rights. A couple of weeks ago, a city in Illinois elected its first ever gay alderman – a Republican called Cory Jobe. Fred Karger, a gay political ... Read More

Nobody is taking Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy seriously – but look at this latest CNN poll. He’s tied for first place among registered Republicans and he’s rumoured to have $2 billion... Read More

Here is my column for the American Way slot in tomorrow’s Sunday Telegraph. Both sides will claim credit for avoiding a shutdown, but in the short term the Tea Party-backed Republicans are the w... Read More

Can America’s Left stoop any lower than New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s juvenile and hate-filled attack on political opponents today amidst the battle on Capitol Hill over the federal budget? In ... Read More

So Glenn Beck is to lose his show at Fox. If you want to know why this is a bad thing for the world, forget what you may think of his sometimes over-the-top, lachrymose schtick and his tendency towar... Read More

Remember those episodes of the brilliant but now dated 1960s sci-fi series The Twilight Zone where the lead character invariably gets stuck in a parallel universe, but is blissfully unaware until the ... Read More

Something momentous is happening in the United States right now and Barack Obama doesn’t get it. In Madison, Wisconsin last week, up to 40,000 public employees, organised by their unions, the Democr... Read More

There’s a narrative about Sarah Palin that goes something like this: until the Arizona shootings she coulda been a contender. But then with her ill-judged reference to a “blood libel”... Read More

What was Sarah Palin thinking? The American national obsession with the former Alaska governor has gone into overdrive in recent days after her ill-judged contribution to the sometimes ugly debate ove... Read More