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.
Rupert Cornwell: At last! The cure for Chicago's inferiority complex has arrived
Out of America: No more 'Second City' – the president-elect's adopted home town has joined the big league now
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Rupert Cornwell: Coolly, calmly, Obama is putting together a remarkable team
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Out of America: Even senior Republicans admit that – on paper, at least – the president-elect is assembling a very impressive administration
Rupert Cornwell:Formidable opponent is now the best choice
Saturday, 22 November 2008
There are many clever explanations for Barack Obama's apparent decision to endow America with its third Madam Secretary of State in a decade.
Rupert Cornwell: Where can the Republicans go now?
Friday, 21 November 2008
The comparison is the 1997 rout of the Tories, another party that had outstayed its welcome
Rupert Cornwell: Returning to the past is way forward for Obama
Monday, 17 November 2008
At first glance it looks like the ‘Clinton restoration’ that Barack Obama’s victory had seemingly forestalled. In fact however, Mr Obama’s selection of many aides associated with the last Democratic president obeys a deeper logic – of ensuring his administration hits the ground running, something Bill Clinton signally failed to achieve when he took power in January 1993.
Rupert Cornwell: This is no time to be waiting for the 44th President
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Amid the global economic crisis, Washington's interregnum feels dangerously long
Rupert Cornwell: After the victory, what next?
Sunday, 9 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has already started to put his team in place – just as well, given the scale of the challenges he will face come January
Rupert Cornwell: How Bush's toxic legacy did for his party
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
The Republicans are now facing a civil war between centrists and conservatives
A spectacular volte-face in the home of capitalism
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Rupert Cornwell: What further indignities might then be heaped on America's battered free market?
Rupert Cornwell: Democrats should fear the Boogie Man
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Out of America: The late Lee Atwater may return to haunt the Obama campaign if desperate Republicans resort to his infamous tactics
Rupert Cornwell: Stunning defeat of bill exposes failures of the US political system
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Yesterday was not only a black Monday for markets. It was the blackest of Mondays too for the US political system, saddled with a discredited president who has completely lost control of his own party and a Congress that responds to a national emergency with little except snarling partisanship.
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