Rupert Cornwell
Known for his commentary on international relations and US politics, Rupert Cornwell also contributes obituaries and occasionally even a column for the sports pages.
With The Independent since its launch in 1986, he was the paper's first Moscow correspondent - covering the collapse of the Soviet Union – during which time he won two British Press Awards. Previously a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and Reuters, he has also been a diplomatic correspondent, leader writer and columnist, and has served as Washington bureau editor. In 1983 he published God's Banker, about Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge.
A step forward, but there's a long way to go yet
Rupert Cornwell: 'Reset' summit not only addressed the spread of nuclear weapons, but also gave implicit US acknowledgement of Moscow's importance.
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Sunday, 5 July 2009
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
Sometimes you truly feel sorry for Richard Nixon. Why should anyone, 15 years after his death, having suffered the greatest disgrace in American political history, continue to be bombarded with irrefutable evidence of his own sins?
Rupert Cornwell: An odd couple in the capital city of spies
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Out of America: The husband and wife who face trial as suspected Cuban agents seem to be naive romantics, a world away from other moles
Rupert Cornwell: Guns still control the ballot box in the age of Obama
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Out of America: Why, with the Democrats in charge, are the firearm laws more lax, ownership increasing, and ammo sales rocketing?
Rupert Cornwell: Healthcare is Obama's greatest test
Friday, 12 June 2009
It's a battlefield of competing interests that have stakes in the system as it stands
Rupert Cornwell: The Obama authors get ready to throw the book at him
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Out of America: In the US, political books that matter are not tired memoirs but the deadliest form of journalism
Rupert Cornwell: Arnie's California goes bust – and even the trees face the big squeeze
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Out of America: Democracy is a wonderful thing, but you can have too much of it, as Schwarzenegger is finding out to his cost
Rupert Cornwell: Presidents come and go, but these judges are for life
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Out of America: Obama must make a crucial choice this weekend
Rupert Cornwell: The bruiser back from the political dead and spoiling for another fight
Friday, 22 May 2009
The venues, the demeanours, spoke louder even than the words. There in the National Archives, home of the 200-year-old founding documents that enshrine a nation's ideals, stood a young and newly minted President – forceful and limpidly eloquent, fixed on the future yet determined to cleanse his country of the shameful recent past inflicted on it by his predecessors.
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