journalist and author
Journalist living in Seattle, Washington who's written about the presidential campaign for the Guardian, the Independent, and the London Review of Books; author of the novel Surveillance as well as My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front, a collection of essays
The Biden-Palin Debate Last night's vice-presidential debate will be old news by Tuesday, when John McCain and Barack Obama face off again . In the meantime, both national campaigns are breathing sighs of relief after neither Sarah Palin nor Joe Biden made a major mistake. For both sides that's good news of a kind. We hear excerpts and compare performances with expectations.
Legal or illegal? Is the appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general?
The roofs above our heads What do our houses reveal about us – and what do they say about living in California?