Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 5 November
They’ve seen it all before
The post-election ritual in Washington is, by now well choreographed.
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Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Saturday 26 June
Rolling Stone gathers army boss
When Barack Obama announced that he was demoting General Stanley McChrystal on Wednesday, the President pointedly avoided identifying the magazine that had just dubbed his head of Afghanistan forces “The Runaway General”…
Affairs / Investments
Monocolumn
Wednesday 21 October
Iraq opens for business
American troops are leaving Iraq, but the engineers, hotel architects and database managers are heading in.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Thursday 4 March
Success on a plate
A few years ago, when it was planning its entrance into the US, the Lebanese chain Kabab-ji hired a consulting firm for recommendations on where it should locate the first of its full-service kebab restaurants.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Thursday 12 November
After the fall: from Russia with indifference
Once a month, readers of The Washington Post who make it past the stock news and television listings are rewarded with Russia Now.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Tuesday 22 September
Summit or nothing
Last night, Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen’s arrival in Washington was celebrated at his country’s embassy with a party in his honour.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 19 December
Forecast 2011: Sarah Palin, international globetrotter?
Sarah Palin recently returned from a trip to Haiti and news reports suggest she is planning to spend some of early 2011 visiting Israel and the UK.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 27 August
Reformist mayors go a step too far
Anyone outside Washington, DC, would think that mayor Adrian Fenty is a hero in his hometown.
Affairs / Manufacturing
Monocolumn
Thursday 18 March
Japan makes the most of Southern hospitality
Representing Japanese business interests in the US should have become a lot harder when the country’s flagship manufacturer Toyota announced in January that it had been selling cars with bad brakes and had to recall around…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 9 October
Prizes for promises
Arizona State University, never the most scholarly of American institutions, caused a modest commotion this spring after announcing plans to deny its graduation speaker the typical recognition of an honorary degree.
Affairs / Politics
Hope, still
Barack Obama may not yet have brought about as much change as promised, but he himself has certainly changed. He has learnt that he will have to fight dirty to get things done – and this means his first year in office can…
Affairs / Publishing
Monocolumn
Tuesday 6 July
Saving the ‘real-life’ bookstore
As they engaged in the inevitable wrenching conversations this spring about the precarious future of print, the editors of Tin House – an independent magazine and book publisher in Portland, Oregon – kept on dwelling on an…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Sunday 10 January
Newspaper in ‘solid journalism’ shocker
Barack Obama had just taken office, but the right-wing media gathered at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference a year ago felt pretty good about the state of their industry.
Culture / Television
Anchor Man
Lebanese journalist Hisham Melhem has been a correspondent for many of the Middle East’s largest newspapers and now presides over TV station Al Arabiya’s Washington bureau. He talks to Monocle about covering a winter of…
Affairs / Politics
First lady
Bahraini Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo has broken the diplomatic mould by being a young Jewish woman representing an Arab country abroad. With her island nation’s proximity to Iran, relations with that country occupy much of her…
Culture / Politics
Azteca camera
To round off our series on the foreign media’s coverage of the US presidential campaigns, we talk to Armando Guzmán of Mexico’s TV Azteca about crossed wires and counter immigration.
Culture / Diplomacy
Tokyo story
As part of our series on the foreign media coverage of the US presidential election, Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.
Affairs / Transport
Q & A: Ray LaHood
The US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has the task of getting the nation on to high-speed rail and persuading the country's airlines to up their game. In Washington he tells our editor, Andrew Tuck, why it's not too…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 2 October
The art of lowering expectations
During the 2004 presidential election campaign John Kerry was described, somewhat implausibly, as the “greatest debater since Cicero”.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 2 May
Why the ‘war on terror’ lost its bite
Almost exactly 20 years ago, an American president once ridiculed as a “wimp” stood triumphant, having vanquished a Middle Eastern villain.