Gary Younge is a Guardian columnist and feature writer based in the US. In 2009 he was awarded the James Cameron prize for journalism for his reporting of the 2008 US presidential election. His books include Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States and No Place Like Home, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He lives with his family in New York City.
Gary Younge, Who Are We – And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? Penguin Books 2011.
The Republican wolves are out for Obama but they are yet to draw blood, The Guardian, 19 May 2013
So, why are we so loyal to a president who is not loyal to us?, The Guardian, 5 May 2013
Atrocities like the Boston bombing are hard to tackle, but gun crime isn't, The Guardian, 21 April 2013
Iron Lady is dead but Thatcherism lives on, The Guardian, 11 April 2013
How Did Margaret Thatcher Do It? The Nation, 9 April 2013
Warning. This article on gay marriage contains optimism, The Guardian, 7 April 2013
Law and disorder: the destructive dynamic of America's segregated cities, The Guardian, 5 April 2013
Arrests at Chicago schools protest, The Guardian, 28 March 2013
Barack Obama is pushing gun control at home, but he's a killer abroad, The Guardian, 10 February 2013
He implored. He threatened. A final transformation from dove to hawk, The Guardian, 6 February 2013
Beyoncé. Horse meat. Lance Armstrong. We have to care about this contempt for the public, The Guardian, 27 January 2013
Obama's show of leadership on gun control was show – but very necessary, The Guardian, 16 January 2013
Obama's new team shows the Iraq lessons are forgotten, The Guardian, 13 January 2013
Suffer the Children, The Nation, 8 January 2013
Newtown shootings: if not now, when is the time to talk about gun control? The Guardian, 14 December 2012
Those who would cancel a promise to black America, The Guardian, 9 December 2012
Republicans, welcome to the reality-based commmunity, The Guardian, 2 December 2012
Is this the death of the Republican party? No chance, The Guardian, 18 November 2012
A Mitt Romney win would merely reward Republicans for bad behaviour, The Guardian, 4 November 2012
Barack Obama and the paradox behind his African American support base, The Guardian, 3 November 2012
Working class voters: why America's poor are willing to vote Republican, The Guardian, 29 October 2012
Evolution of the American voter: 'The tectonic plates of politics are shifting, The Guardian, 24 October 2012
Obama fires and Romney falters but third debate fails to find a flourish, The Guardian, 23 October 2012
This presidential election show is lame, but the fight is dramatic, The Guardian, 21 October 2012
The struggle for Obama's voters: 'I just wish he could have been better', The Guardian, 10 October 2012
Americans deserve a better choice in this election than the one they've got, The Guardian, 7 October 2012
Return to Roanoke: 'I never thought things could become more divided', The Guardian, 1 October 2012
Mitt Romney is too rational for a deluded Republican base, The Guardian, 23 September 2012
This is shaping up to be the most racially polarised US election ever, The Guardian, 9 September 2012
Tin Man Romney still not putting enough heart into it, The Guardian, 31 August 2012
Paul Ryan sets out Romney stall but no one is buying, The Guardian, 30 August 2012
Mitt Romney embraces his Mormonism in public after years of discretion, The Guardian, 27 August 2012
The world as seen by Republicans, in a land of myth and amnesia, The Guardian, 29 July 2012
America needs to talk about gun control in the wake of the Colorado shooting, The Guardian, 20 July 2012
How Mitt Romney is turning into the John Kerry of the 2012 election, The Guardian, 18 July 2012
The Democrats can't lecture Romney about firing people, The Guardian, 15 July 2012
Who thinks about the consequences of online racism?, The Guardian, 12 July 2012
Noam Chomsky: 'The Occupy movement just lit a spark' – video by Gary Younge and Kat Keene Hogue, The Guardian, 6 July 2012
The Fourth of July and my American son, The Guardian, 4 July 2012
US voters want somebody to reflect on their frailties, The Guardian, 17 June 2012
There's class war in Wisconsin, yet the Democrats sing Kumbaya, The Guardian, 3 June 2012
Why do poor white voters reject the Democrats? Well, why shouldn't they?, The Guardian, 25 May 2012
Nato talks security and peace, Chicago has neither, The Guardian, 20 May 2012
Nato protesters arrested in Chicago raid held on terrorism conspiracy charges, The Guardian, 19 May 2012
How being 'the party of no' is working for the GOP, The Guardian, 14 May 2012
A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy, The Guardian, 6 May 2012
Osama bin Laden's death has had zero impact on America's security, The Guardian, 1 May 2012
Abroad, as at home, Obama coasts on a wave of disappointment, The Guardian, 22 April 2012
George Zimmerman's trial could be as divisive as OJ Simpson's, The Guardian, 12 April 2012
Mamie Till's warning still holds true in a racist world, The Guardian, 8 April 2012
Growing up black: Dennis Morris's portrait of the 70s, The Guardian, 26 March 2012
Trayvon Martin: a killing too far, The Guardian, 21 March 2012
Illinois Republican primary result: Mitt Romney's tipping point, The Guardian, 21 March 2012
Studs Terkel's study of race in the US: 20 years on, garyyounge.com, 13 March 2012
Obama is still in a hole. It may yet be deeper than his Republican rivals', The Guardian, 11 March 2012
For Obama to apologise for US mistakes is not un-American, The Guardian/Comment is free, 9 March 2012
The itinerant US left has found its home in the Occupy movement, The Guardian, 26 February 2012
Election 2012: the return of 'culture wars', The Guardian, 10 February
Never mind Mitt Romney, don't bet on any party to care about the poor by Gary Younge, The Guardian/Comment is free, 6 February 2012
Whitewashing Black History Month, The Guardian/Comment is free, 1 February 2012
Never mind Mitt Romney, don't bet on any party to care about the poor, The Guardian/Comment is free, 6 February 2012
Whitewashing Black History Month, The Guardian/Comment is free, 1 February 2012
US elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins, The Guardian, 29 January 2012
State of the union: President Obama addresses inequality, The Guardian, 24 January 2012
For too many African-Americans, prison is a legacy passed from father to son, The Guardian, 15 January 2012
Michelle Obama, reluctant presidential consort, The Guardian/Comment is free, 13 January 2012
Mitt Romney's bruising Republican primary progress, The Guardian, 11 January 2012