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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America - Through an electoral fog
- 25 October 2004
The next four years - Bush campaigns on his fitness to command the war on terror, not on policies. But through Supreme Court appointments, he could shape the US for decades
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America - Andrew Stephen examines the box on Bush
- 18 October 2004
George W Bush might not have been wired to a box in his back during the first televised debate, but he does have a few dirty tricks up his sleeve with which to smear John Kerry
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America - Andrew Stephen sees Boy George acting spoiled
- 11 October 2004
The television debate was live, and for the first time Bush faced criticism in a forum that he could not control. He revealed the spoilt, petulant side of his personality
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America - Andrew Stephen experiences a Nuremberg rally
- 04 October 2004
Bush campaign events have all the supplied flags and spontaneity of a Nuremberg rally. But the president's battering of the Kerry image seems to be working with Americans
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America - Andrew Stephen sees Cheney as a weakness
- 27 September 2004
Dick Cheney once seemed the ultimate Washington insider, full of gravitas and at ease with power. Now, Kerry's team has identified him as the weak spot on the Bush ticket
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America - Andrew Stephen doubts television can save Kerry
- 20 September 2004
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Kerry is pinning his hopes on the televised debates but Bush has never lost such a contest, despite his mangled syntax
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America - Andrew Stephen thinks Kerry needs Clinton
- 13 September 2004
Kerry expected to make this election campaign into a referendum on Bush's character. It has morphed into the precise opposite, with Kerry himself under the spotlight
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America - Andrew Stephen sees Republicans verr further right
- 06 September 2004
A rift has opened up between the older Bush and his son. The Republican Party is now more right-wing than at any time since Barry Goldwater ran for the presidency in 1964
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America - Andrew Stephen finds the British talking about butts
- 30 August 2004
I found the British talking about Michael Moore, "the First Family" in No 10, and pains in the butt. Vast numbers have become obese. Britain now truly is the 51st state of the USA
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America - Andrew Stephen doubts Americans are Christian
- 23 August 2004
The US, it is said, is a deeply Christian country. But some churches have shopping malls and branches of McDonald's. They are shrines to consumerism, not to religious virtue
