Alistair Cooke discusses the reality of wind chill, questionnaires for appointing cabinet officers and the secrets to old age.

America is Back to Normal

Alistair Cooke explains how America was able to wait patiently for the confirmation of their new president, George Bush.

How Wrong We've Been, from Madison to Roosevelt

Alistair Cooke contemplates the pros and cons of democracy and the role of America's Electoral College.

An Embarrassing Relic of Authoritarianism

Alistair Cooke asks whether the doubts about the result of the Florida vote are paralysing America's government.

Bedazzled and Bewildered

Alistair Cooke examines the voting irregularities of 1876 and applies the lessons learned from them to the current electoral crisis in Florida.

It's a Nine Ring Circus and You'll Never be Bored

Alistair Cooke looks at the origins of Thanksgiving and seasonal trends in food.

The Origin of the Continental Blow Out

The various legal issues underlying the failure to elect either George W Bush or Al Gore as president are explained by Alistair Cooke.

The Florida re-count, 2000

Given the closeness of the recent election, Alistair Cooke asks what sort of mandate the next President will really possess.

Paralysis by Analysis

Democrat or Republican? Gore or Bush? Who will be the next President? Alistair Cooke reviews the two candidates.

The Day of Judgement

Alistair Cooke looks forward with pleasure to the Presidential election and an end to wall-to-wall lobbying and advertising.

Suffocating in an Ocean of Advertising

Alistair Cooke on Bill Clinton’s second term including Monica Lewinsky scandal, the attempt to impeach him, the al-Qaeda attack on US embassies in east Africa and war in Kosovo.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Clinton Years (1997-2000)

George Wallace

The life of George Wallace, reformed racial segregationist and Governor of Alabama is remembered and Alistair Cooke considers his anger and the humble truth of his repentance.

Monica Lewinsky

Examining allegations that President Clinton persuaded Monica Lewinsky to give false testimony, Clinton's high approval rating and has Alan Greenspan noticed the heat wave?

Clinton's high aproval rating and Monica Lewinsky

Tapes emerge alledging that Monica Lewinsky was asked to lie on oath about an affair with the President and Clinton delivers a dazzling state of the Union address.

The Monica Lewinsky scandal emerges

The shootings by schoolboys in Columbine High School, Colorado and the long running fight between gun controllers and the National Rifle Association.

Columbine High School shootings, 1999

Judge Wright throws out Paula Jones' civil prosecution of President Clinton for an alleged sexual assault in 1991. How will it affect the investigation of the Whitewater land deal?

Clinton sexual assault case thrown out

The complexities and historical shifts of the interpretation of constitutional rights, freedom of speech and how to fly the American flag.

Constitutional rights

What happens if immigrants to America don't want to become Americans? Alistair Cooke considers assimilation, patriotism, Memorial Day and proposition 227.

Immigrants to America and assimilation

In the run up to the presidential election Alistair Cooke considers the affect of the poll ratings, Governor Bush's language gaffs and personality contests.

Trouble with the English Language

Tony Blair's vision of a nodern Britain, alistair Cooke's suggestions for a tour of the US, and Roosevelt's post-war plea for Americans to holiday in the Caribbean.

American tourists

The story of Zebby Adams, the real Santa Claus, and how his joyride got him into trouble – and his Christmas spirit got him out of it

A New York Christmas story

The controversies behind New York's St Patrick's Day Parade, US misconceptions about the status of Northern Ireland and American Irish historical memory of the famine of 1845/6.

St Patrick's Day controversies

Bill Clinton

Alistair Cooke reports on the US Senate trial of President Bill Clinton, and reflects on some of the most interesting trials that he covered as a reporter.

The US Senate trial of Bill Clinton, 1999

Alistair Cook discusses the global televised countdown to the millennium; Russian president Boris Yeltsin's resignation, and the audacity of Mr Putin in praising the Soviet secret police.

A Breathtaking Global Tour and a Resignation

Following North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms's scolding lecture to the United Nations, Alistair Cook reviews how his message was received.

A Gentleman but not a Scholar

Alistair Cook takes in the story of Rip Van Winkle as he tries (and fails) to make sense of the multi-million dollar tie up between Time Warner and America Online.

The Death of the Old Media

The desire for a 'quick-fix', the false dawns of the daily medical miracle, the instant imitation of new inventions and excitement over a 'so-called' impotence pill.

Medicine, inventions and the quick-fix

Charles Schulz

Alistair Cooke commemorates the life of Charles Schultz, the creator of the comic strip characters Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Woodstock.

Charles Schulz: A Great and Good Man

The homogenisation of US life and media, California's lead in social legislation and two new Californian propositions on English for immigrants and labour union spending.

California's progressive social legislation

Increased awareness of homelessness and poverty and the failure of ideologies to address the variety of the homeless population are considered by Alistair Cooke.

Helping the homeless

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