Biography:
About: "One of the first journalists to experiment with blogging more than a decade ago. He writes 250 to 300 posts per week for "The Daily Dish," which includes his incisive analyis and blunt observations about international affairs, domestic politics, cultural issues, religion and faith as well as links to noteworthy reporting and commentary from other writers." - ref/more
Education: Magdalen College, Oxford: BA (First) Modern History and Modern Languages; Harvard University: MA Public Administration, PhD Political Science.
(His adviser at Harvard University was Harvey Mansfield, the political philosopher, and his dissertation was on Michael Oakeshott, the British philosopher)
Career: Wikipedia info: Early life / Professional journalism
Viewpoints/Insight: One of the first journalists to use blogging, see Wikpedia info
Current position/role: Commentator
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Video: YouTube: C-Span with Andrew Sullivan on HIV
Controversy/Criticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan#Controversies
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Articles:
- The raging right’s cardboard future - Despite the Tea Party’s energy and radicalism, the Republicans appear doomed to pick a dull phoney after Palin pulls out - 9th October 2011
- Pay attention: the long read has been rescued - Books and serious writing, once put at risk by the internet and its demand for brevity, are being saved by the rise of the tablet computer - 2nd October 2011
- The holy pincer movement crushing Obama’s promise - Israel could not hope for a better ally than the American Christian right to form a global Judaeo-Christian alliance against Islam - 25th September 2011
- Wounded, cornered, Palin is deadlier than ever - A new book savages the Alaskan maverick’s political fitness. It may be the cue for her to run, or quit the limelight for good - 18th September 2011
- Uh-oh, now the professor is President Angry - Usually conciliatory, President Barack Obama has set a new tone this week by daring the right to defy him on jobs - 11th September 2011
- Dastardly Dick, America’s worst vice-president - Dick Cheney’s new memoir is delusional: in reality George W Bush’s vice-president has stained an entire nation for years to come - 4th September 2011
- Fanatics usher the US into their crazy church - A new study that polled 3,000 Americans since 2007 finally kills off the idea of the Tea Party as economically motivated - 21st August 2011
- The cowboy Christian roping in the right - The Republican hotshot Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, is like George W Bush – without the compassion or prudence - 14th August 2011
- Boom goes the Acme bomb ... and misses Obama - The right used the debt crisis as a trap for the president but it will take the bigger hit as Obama takes short-term loss for long-term gain - 7th August 2011
- Your head, Barack – deal or no deal? - There are no moderate Republicans left in US politics to help reach a compromise and the consequences for the glocal economy are dire - 31st July 2011
- Cackling away, the right pushes us off a cliff - America is close to defaulting on its debt, and Republicans are happy to be the cause. That could be a new Great Depression - 3rd July 2011
- You won’t believe where I saw God - The link between the divine and brain chemistry is starting to become clear as science begins to study religious experience - 26th June 2011
- Republicans let slip the dogs of peace - With the economy in dire straits, the right is rediscovering isolationism and has become leery of expensive war-making - 19th June
- Penelope Pitstop Palin rams into Peter Perfect - The wacky race for the Republican nomination took a strange turn this week as the rebel from Alaska toured America in her vacation bus - 5th June 2011
- Not crazy, so no use to the Republicans - Former governor Jon Huntsman is sane and able and could be an effective Republican nominee. But just 2% of his party back him - 29th May 2011
- Stop snivelling — America still loves us - Insecure Britain should remember that its bond with the US is just like a mature marriage and stop demanding constant signs of affection - 22nd May 2011
- Slippery Newt’s shameless bid for the top - Gingrich was a great straight man to Clinton as Speaker of the House of Representatives but is a joke as a White House hopeful - 15th May 2011
- Obama purrs softly, then — flash — his claws kill - Barack Obama’s Osama Bin Laden coup has buried the right of America's deadliest charge – that the president is weak - 8th May 2011
- Obama's safe with The Daily Pushover - The mainstream media in America are now so close to the political class that it is left to outsiders to ask the hard questions - 1st May 2011
- Trump heralds a bad-hair day for the right - The tycoon is wooing angry voters but a bid for the White House could gift a landslide to President Obama - 24th April 2011
- Y’hear that echo? The civil war ain’t over yet - After 150 years, the legacy of the bloody internecine conflict still tinges everything from national politics to simple speech - 17th April 2011
- Congress limps through the budget war warm-up - The right’s stubborn opposition to tax rises took Washington to the brink of budget disaster — and it will happen again - 10th April 2011
- Obama blows ‘no drama’ image to smithereens - The president who came to power as the anti-war candidate may regret allowing himself to be sucked into bombing Libya - 3rd April 2011
- Mocha America, Obama’s ultimate pick-me-up - The Republicans are risking electoral ruin in 2012. Their resolutely white political message may backfire as America grows browner - 27th March 2011
- The Grey Lady tosses her favours to the fickle - The New York Times’s new 'hybrid' paywall gives casual readers free access. Is this the future of online journalism? - 20th March 2011
- Leaving Libya to fight it out is brutal but smart - Senior figures are urging military action. But this would risk America’s real interests and may not work anyway - 13th March 2011
- It’s Boadicea Palin vs Mr Soft and Mr Flaky - To many, Sarah Palin is a joke but her main Republican rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are vulnerable. Can they stop her? - 27th February 2011
- Give us more disasters like this, Mr President - We are seeing mass protests across the Arab world. The difference this time is that I haven’t seen the burning of a single American flag - 20th February 2011
- Huff the magic dragon smothers online news - The sale of the fluff-laden Huffington Post to the super-uncool AOL for a staggering $315m has left some feeling perplexed - 13th February 2011
- Obama stills the shrill voices of a new civil war - A masterful speech made at the memorial ceremony for the Arizona killings shows how the president hopes to heal a nation - 16th January 2011
- Indiana Daniels, raider of the lost deficit - The Republican governor of the midwestern state is the party’s lone voice of fiscal reason — but has been likened to a drug addict by his colleagues - 9th January 2011
- A messy first half, but now Obama can win - He has had setbacks in the mid-term elections at home and with his middle-eastern failures abroad, but the president is playing a long game - 26th December 2010
- Ker-ching — the bloggers’ gold rush is on - Everyone said online media would never make money; 2010 has proved them wrong with web advertising finally making profit - 19th December 2010
- Beep beep! Obama dodges Coyote’s boulder - The canny deal that Barack Obama made with Republicans on tax and spending sets the president up for re-election in 2012 - 12th December 2010
- Blue bloods grapple with their Palin genie - The Republican elite made the rebel; now it knows that to oust Barack Obama at the next election it must try and stop her - 5th December 2010
- Obama conjured up the Palin whirlwind - How has the rebel risen so fast? It has been easy really, she has just copied the tactics of that other great outsider - 28th November 2010
- Beastweek, the last hope for magazines - The outcome of the fusion of the successful Daily Beast website with the ailing weekly Newsweek could decide the fate of an industry - 21st November 2010
- Year zero for Obama – and his enemies - Radical plans to cut the deficit and restore a semblance of fiscal sanity offer a chance to halt America’s poisonous polarisation - 14th November 2010
- Obama has two years to bridge a killer divide - To the right, he’s practically a commie; the left thinks he’s sold out – America's president doesn't seem to be able to please anyone - 7th November 2010
- Time for your ritual thrashing, Mr President - President Obama will suffer in the mid-term elections this week but it didn’t do Bill Clinton any harm in 1994 - 31st October 2010
- Me and Mr Facebook - The question Sorkin was asking about Zuckerberg was the Citizen Kane question: why? But the real question was: why not? - 24th October 2010
- Obama’s right where he wants to be — losing big - An electoral meltdown for the Democrats in the upcoming mid-term elections will allow the president to call the right’s bluff on tax - 17th October 2010
- ‘Victory’ in Iraq and the prize is ... a war to come - America may think it is job done but sectarian tensions could still herald a wider conflict. This war, in others words, may not be over - 10th October 2010
- A promise from the right’s wild-eyed frontier - The Republicans’ reckless election pledge on tax and cuts is a gift to Obama and could be a chance to stem Democrat mid-term losses - 3rd October 2010
- Take the high road to legal pot, California - Proposition 19 could lead to the legalisation of marijuana in California, helping to reduce the Golden State’s debt and cut crime - 26th September 2010
- Palin waits to pounce as the Tea Party rolls on - Yes, Palin is waiting in the wings. And this strange and ugly time is the beginning of the seemingly inevitable Obama-Palin showdown - 19th September 2010
- Denounce this nut-job or the world will burn - America is in danger of letting reckless and fanatic pastor Terry Jones' plan to burn the Koran drag it into a destructive war with Islam - 11th September 2010
- Feel the love, Hitch — it will survive you - A believer salutes the refusal of cancer-stricken British-born controversialist Christopher Hitchens to renounce his atheism - 15th August 2010
- Logic heralds the big day for gay marriage - A landmark ruling in California insisting there is no argument for restricting civil marriage rights has turned the tide for same-sex weddings - 8th August 2010
- Cameron’s next task — reviving America’s right - The PM's modernisation of his party and budget cuts is a model for the Republicans ahead of the 2012 US presidential election - 25th July 2010
- Face it, Palin will be the Republican nominee - Everything she has done these past few months — when she was supposed to fade away — confirms her seriousness about the future - 11th July 2010
- Torture and depravity — all the media’s fault - American newspapers that were once scourges of the powerful and fearless truth hounds are now the poodles of the establishment - 4th July 2010
- Barack Obama: a prisoner of his generals - In sacking Stanley McChrystal, the US president has bound himself more tightly to a flawed and failing military strategy in Afghanistan - 27th June 2010
- The left boils over at President Bloodless - Obama is being attacked for showing no passion — he is a man who wins quietly, gets a lot done but receives no huge enthusiasm for it - 20th June 2010
- Self-destructive Israel has killed this love affair - Tel Aviv’s belligerence has led to a crucial shift in support in the United States - 13th June 2010
- Another disaster awaits the land of oil addicts - If you want to assign real, structural blame, it belongs to Americans who simply refuse to wean themselves off carbon - 6th June 2010
- Rude Britannia: the limeys breaking US taboos - America is naturally polite so it is up to some blunt Brits to ask awkward questions - 30th May 2010
- Suddenly cracks appear in the Tea Party revolt - When the public actually confronts the imminent reality of spending cuts, rather than the idea of them, their popularity sinks - 23rd May 2010
- Answer the lesbian question, Ms Legal Eagle - President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan seems to have no views, even on her own sexuality - 16th May 2010
- Wit and jugular blows: the elections debate - The tactics used by the three British party leaders on TV last week had all the usual American touches - 25th April 2010
- Don’t come over here, Cameron, you pinko - The Republican party has lurched so far right that it can no longer recognise mainstream conservatism - 11th April 2010
- I believe you’ve killed the church, Holy Father - How can the Pope have any moral authority until he explains the child abuse cover-up, takes accountability and repents? - 4th April 2010
- Obama tears up Israel’s carte blanche - The key thing Netanyahu needs to be reminded of is: Obama has a gift for getting his enemies to destroy themselves - 28th March 2010
- Win on health and Obama wins around the world - Securing healthcare reform at home will help the American president in Afghanistan and the Middle East - 21st March 2010
- Behold Cap’n Barack the crafty trimmer - President Obama has bent to the prevailing winds, but that isn't a weakness. There is a pragmatism that is a kind of strength - 7th March 2010
- Obama needs to play hard for health reform - As Barack Obama's health summit flops, do the Democrats have the guts to force the healthcare bill through? - 28th February 2010
- Gay hate in a Republican embrace - Among the heterosexuals, the hostility towards gay equality is becoming a defining shibboleth of what the party means - 21st February 2010
- Fear Palin, a warrior messiah on a mission - The former vice -presidential candidate's speech last weekend revealed a woman driven by a sense of divine destiny - 14th February 2010
- Listen up, the president is not for turning - President Obama’s state of the union address is a clear signal to critics on both the left and right - 31st January 2010
- The iPhone and IED rule the Age of Asymmetry - There was surely something significant about the news story that dominated the last week of America’s decas horribilis - 3rd January 2010
- America wakes up to the shift in global power - The only thing more damaging to a superpower than never using military power is using it in such a way as to demonstrate its futility - 6th December 2009
- Cool cat Obama must count on his nine lives - With large swathes of the US 'going rogue', can a president with preternatural calm resonate? Can he bring the people with him? - 29th November 2009
- Beware the fantasy world of Sarah, Warrior Princess - The US vice-presidential candidate’s memoir mocks the truth, but she remains a possible future American leader - 22nd November 2009
- ‘Outwitted’ Obama has Israel where he wants it - Tel Aviv may think it has won a victory over the president, but he has a trump card - 15th November 2009
- Voters warn both sides of America’s divide - Last week’s elections have revealed independents as the new driving force in US politics - 8th November 2009
- On the quiet, the US is legalising marijuana - The humble joint can save lives. We look forward to the end of senseless prohibition - 1st Noivember 2009
- Scratch white America and beneath it is black - We find it easy to peddle myths of previous national purity, of some Edenic period when life was simpler, populations purer, race more easily marked and celebrated. In America, the myth endures as well - 25th October 2009
- President Dither is sizing up his killer blows - On health, Iran and the war, Barack Obama may seem weak, but he is playing it long and luring opponents into traps - 18th October 2009
- Obama means change – except on torture - A bid to carry on prosecuting a man who even though his tormentors knew him to be innocent chills the marrow - 11th October 2009
- Muddle on, Mr President, that’s the best option - Send more troops or cut back? It’s impossible to make the call on Afghanistan right now, so don’t - 4th October 2009
- Dr Obama finds a balm for the middle class - The key to the president’s health reforms is ending the financial fear illness brings - 13th September 2009
- Obama still isn’t president in the south - Denying the leader’s American birth is just another form of racism - 9th August 2009
- Obama’s race dream is swiftly shackled - The ugly arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr, a black professor at Harvard, shows racial harmony is far from a reality - 26th July 2009
- ‘Retaliator’ Obama awaits Tehran’s next move - The president is playing both hawk and dove in his attempts to engage with Iran. Now it’s Khamenei’s move - 5th July 2009
- ... and the reign of books was over. The end - Surely nothing could replace the book? - 14th June 2009
- Obama’s message: I have a dream for Islam - As the president prepares for a key speech in Cairo, Andrew Sullivan gauges his plan for a new Middle East - 31st May 2009
- Cheney comes shrieking into the light - Cheney is not the best spokesman for Cheney. He has an approval rating of 30% and a disapproval rating of 63% - 17th May 2009
- Light at the end of religion's dark tunnel - Faith is growing ever more extreme but a new book on the evolution of God gives us hope - 10th May 2009
- America is soothed by no-drama Obama - The president’s cautious, mollifying approach is winning ever more support - 3rd May 2009
- One tortured lie: that’s all it took for war - Bush needed ‘evidence’ and used techniques designed to produce lies to get it - 26th April 2009
- Tough calls are coming, President Put-off - Obama likes to play for time but now he faces key decisions at home and abroad - 19th April 2009
- Obama’s best friend: a seething, sniping right - A poll indicating a sharply divided US proves Obama has won the fight for the centre - 12th April 2009
- It’s little things that will fight climate change - Vast regulation would cost us dear; far better to try simple petrol and carbon taxes - 5th April 2009
- Scared Cheney puts his head in the noose - The former vice-president fears being held to account on torture and is lashing out - 29th March 2009
- Give Obama more time.Then give him hell - The president has had only two months – harsh judgments are premature - 22nd March 2009
- There’s a new power in America – atheism - The faithless are a growing force as the churches duck the challenges of the age - 15th March 2009
- First blood in the war for Obama’s world-view - The furore over a new intelligence chief signals a fight for the soul of US foreign policy - 8th March 2009
- Flailing Republicans pray for meltdown - The American right is shattered and knows only a national disaster can save it - 1st March 2009
- Mad, maddening America, the wisest of all - The US is hobbled by bigotry but it has an unrivalled vitality that pushes it ever forward - 22nd February 2009
- Republican Taliban declare jihad on Obama - The president wants bipartisanship; the right has promised him all-out war - 15th February 2009
- Miliband wriggles in the Guantanamo net - The foreign secretary wants to draw a line under the torture row but more truth will out - 8th February 2009
- Obama calmly buries the legacy of Mr Toad - Bush was a reckless near-dictator; his successor is returning power to the people - 1st February 2009
- Obama’s new man calls time on US torture - The choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA is the best sign of change yet - 11th January 2009
- Wary Obama will make the Middle East wait - Hamas and Israel will find out soon enough that he isn't easily pressured - 4th January 2009 (see: Israel–Gaza conflict)
- Beep, beep: Road Runner lets McCain blow up - Barack Obama’s strategy of calm is provoking his rival into fatal errors - 12th October 2008
- Behind the lipstick, the pitbull vanishes - Sarah Palin’s performance in last week’s big debate revealed her emptiness - 5th October 2008
- Dictator Bush’s great illusion is exposed - The president thinks he is above the law. Mercifully, he is now being challenged - 28th September 2008
- A choice of Tweedledum or Tweedledumber - The US economy is in crisis but neither presidential candidate has a credible solution - 21st September 2008
- The fright begins as McCain reveals his reckless side - Sarah Palin has opposed his key policies, so why did he pick her? - 7th September 2008
- Wily Obama beats McCain on strategy - Our correspondent applauds how the Democrat outwitted his rival and neutralised the Clintons - 31st August 2008
- If it’s war we want, McCain will deliver - The Republican candidate has been in his element during the past week - 17th August 2008
- The doubts starting to rein back Obama - The senator has stalled in the polls as voters start to fear handing both the presidency and Congress to the left - 10th August 2008
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