Andrew Stephen

Andrew Stephen

Andrew Stephen was appointed US Editor of the New Statesman in 2001, having been its Washington correspondent and weekly columnist since 1998. He is a regular contributor to BBC news programs and to The Sunday Times Magazine. He has also written for a variety of US newspapers including The New York Times Op-Ed pages. He came to the US in 1989 to be Washington Bureau Chief of The Observer and in 1992 was made Foreign Correspondent of the Year by the American Overseas Press Club for his coverage.

Articles by Andrew Stephen

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Coronation, Texas-style

  • 17 January 2005

With US soldiers dying in Iraq, he could have kept it low-key. Instead, he wants $40m worth of balls, parades, bad food and military display. It says a lot

Land of the free, home of the stingy

  • 10 January 2005

Tsunami 2: Americans, who think they are uniquely generous, give just five cents a day each to charities abroad

America - Andrew Stephen reveals Washington's latest war

  • 01 January 2005

The Bush administration, like that of Richard Nixon, sees enemies everywhere. And it goes after them in the same sinister and unscrupulous way

A war president stands at the ready

  • 13 December 2004

In his end-of-year diary, our US editor Andrew Stephen notes a growing Bush personality cult, the plight of art lovers and a campaign against Kofi Annan

America - Andrew Stephen finds US networks in decline

  • 06 December 2004

A decade ago, a national news anchorman was a demigod. Today, Americans get their news from more diffuse sources, and even Dan Rather's retirement fails to move them

America - Andrew Stephen on a quadriplegic's death sentence

  • 29 November 2004

For those of you who cannot conceive of the US as a cruel country, read the tale of the young quadriplegic condemned to death for possessing marijuana

America - Andrew Stephen warns that "Condi" is bad news

  • 22 November 2004

The appointments of a woman who failed to heed intelligence warnings about 9/11 and of a man who took money from Enron reveal that Bush values loyalty, not competence

The boy genius behind Bush

  • 15 November 2004

Don't attribute the Republican triumph to the voters' moral values. Credit instead Karl Rove, an expert at electoral dirty tricks. From Andrew Stephen in Washington

Bleak morning in America

  • 08 November 2004

Bush's handlers are likely to move him further to the right. Do not expect compromise or magnanimity from the White House. Andrew Stephen reports from Washington

On the brink of another crisis

  • 01 November 2004

There is a more than even chance that this US election will be as close as the last. If it is, 30,000 lawyers will be ready to dispute the result. Andrew Stephen reports from Washington

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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