Jurek Martin - Financial Times

Jurek Martin has been with the FT since 1966 and has spent 24 years of those years reporting on and commenting about the US. His column is written mostly with Americans in mind, not only about its policies but also about the highways, byways and people.

He was far east editor, based in Tokyo, from 1982-86, followed by six years as the newspaper’s Foreign Editor, based in London. He then moved back to full time writing in Washington. He was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to journalism in 1997.

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Disasters used to bring the US together, now they expose the country’s political faultlines

Re-elections probably make administrations careless and overconfident

There are no good options facing the president – and he knows it

Reform was never going to be easy but now it has been made harder

Tougher laws had to be passed when Newtown was fresh in minds

In the alternative world of the world’s most famous reporter, DC would enjoy respect not disgust

Those who cross the Potomac in search of sense might be in for a shock

Ex-FT journalist who excelled at all levels of newspaper production

How everything changed after the US president’s very nice speech

For Obama, aligning disparate US political actors is like herding cats

Beate Sirota Gordon, interpreter and constitutionalist, 1923-2012

Noble bodies have descended into corruption and irrelevance

Rightwing radio jocks turn on the very people their party needed

Party’s half of the country set to shrink

Storm may impact voting on polling day next week

America back then was truly bipolar and an election did mean ‘change’

Forget the election, America’s pastime is offering the real drama

Even in an age of instant opinion, a zinger may turn a televised debate

Supposedly foolproof theories on election results are plausible until proven wrong

The governorship of Paul LePage should serve as a warning to the Republicans

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