A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.
There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro's base and trigger displays of military force, potentially plunging Venezuela into a civil war.
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.
For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.
I'd venture a bet that no American hates 'Prairie Home Companion' more than I do.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, heavy-handedly provoked South American governments on any number of issues, including a rush to endorse the 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela, which only worked to steel resistance and build solidarity.
To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and one's self-image.
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.
I believe there are ways of cutting past some of the ideological logjams in Washington when it comes to issues of American economic competitiveness and a pro-growth agenda.
When I was elected as president, it was prohibited for any American or NATO officer even to enter our Ministry of Defense.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
