In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.