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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Saying the unsayable

  • 13 September 2007
  • 139 comments

The links between the Israel lobby and US foreign policy are a Washington taboo. But a controversial new study is opening up a long-stifled debate

The fall of Condi

  • 06 September 2007
  • 19 comments

The US secretary of state was feted as "brilliant" and "gifted", but her tenure is now acknowledged as a disastrous failure.

Bush: is the president imploding?

  • 23 August 2007
  • 58 comments

His aides are jumping ship, his inner circle is torn apart by feuds and his orders are being ignored. Bush has 17 months left in the White House but he is now a rudderless leader says Andrew Stephen, while Anthony Lane reports from New Orleans on the city failed by the president.

Born equal?

  • 09 August 2007
  • 27 comments

Andrew Stephen on how the US is no longer a land where people of humble origin become film stars and presidents. Plus Marika Mathieu on UK wealth inequality

The man on the white horse

  • 19 July 2007
  • 5 comments

Could Fred Thompson be the answer to Republican prayers? The party of George W Bush may yet opt for an obscure 64-year-old ex-senator who has no known achievements.

My fellow American Muslims . . .

  • 05 July 2007

Muslims living in the US enjoy a better life than those in Britain, says new research. Can Bush teach Brown a lesson?

Who is the real Hillary?

  • 14 June 2007
  • 13 comments

If you want to understand the woman who would be president, don't bother to read the latest avalanche of recycled biographies - just ask her interns.

The poisonous legacy of 9/11

  • 04 June 2007
  • 1 comment

New Yorkers were told their air was safe to breathe after 9/11. It wasn't. As the city's first toxic dust-related death we report on the lies and the cover-up

There's no one left

  • 21 May 2007
  • 2 comments

Andrew Stephen on how politics has shifted rightwards

When Mr Brown goes to Washington

  • 14 May 2007
  • 2 comments

The success or failure of Gordon Brown's prime ministership will lie across the Atlantic. So how will America react to him?

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Ryan Gilbey

On film

Ryan Gilbey

Jura

1984's birthplace

The house where Big Brother was born

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Anthony Howard

On Peter Hitchens

The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost Its Way

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