From OBITUARIES Jan 4, 2013

Champion of women’s rights in Japan

Beate Sirota Gordon ©Kyodo News

Beate Sirota Gordon, interpreter and constitutionalist, 1923-2012

Dec 11, 2012

The Alamo looms for GOP and ANC

Noble bodies have descended into corruption and irrelevance

Nov 12, 2012

Fear and loathing on the airwaves

Rightwing radio jocks turn on the very people their party needed

Nov 7, 2012

Republicans need to think long and hard

Party’s half of the country set to shrink

Oct 30, 2012

Frankenstorm generates ‘October surprise’

Storm may impact voting on polling day next week

Oct 29, 2012

The thrill of 2008 has gone – and it hurts

America back then was truly bipolar and an election did mean ‘change’

Oct 17, 2012

Give me baseball over politics

Forget the election, America’s pastime is offering the real drama

Oct 1, 2012

A presidential demeanour still counts

Even in an age of instant opinion, a zinger may turn a televised debate

Sep 19, 2012

Sometimes the poll numbers really do count

Supposedly foolproof theories on election results are plausible until proven wrong

Sep 10, 2012

As goes Maine, so goes the nation

The governorship of Paul LePage should serve as a warning to the Republicans

Aug 20, 2012

Romney as seen by a latter-day Jeeves

The Republican candidate embodies the values of the 1950s

Jul 18, 2012

Presidential campaign needs a kick in the pants

The run is shaping up as the most disconnected in living memory

Jul 2, 2012

The DC gossip bazaar silenced

Nobody had a clue about how the US Supreme Cout would rule on the healthcare act

Jun 19, 2012

The ultimate lesson of Watergate

The event taught us that the victims had better stay on their guard

Jun 4, 2012

Cherish a phenom before it burns out

We are quicker to accord superstar status than we used to be

From LIFE & ARTS Apr 28, 2012

Komi, Washington DC

‘I did not expect to find a personal nirvana in a terraced house, six blocks from the White House’

Apr 23, 2012

What if the Gipper led the 2012 GOP?

US conservatism has no greater icon than Reagan, invoked at every turn

Apr 22, 2012

Colson, leading Watergate figure, dies

Architect of many of Nixon’s ‘dirty tricks’

Apr 10, 2012

Santorum’s safe return to nowhere

The ex-senator managed to endure when a succession of others did not

Mar 28, 2012

Romney will win when elephants forget

The Republicans have alienated broad swaths of the electorate

ABOUT JUREK

Jurek Martin Jurek Martin has been with the FT since 1966 and has spent 24 years of those years reporting on and commenting about the US. His column is written mostly with Americans in mind, not only about its policies but also about the highways, byways and people.

He was far east editor, based in Tokyo, from 1982-86, followed by six years as the newspaper’s Foreign Editor, based in London. He then moved back to full time writing in Washington. He was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to journalism in 1997.

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