The long-anticipated clash of the VP candidates did not turn out to be the Palin Fry Fest that many commentators anticipated. She ignored questions, bewildered with her monologues and looked
My note to the FT's Martin Wolf this morning, on reading his column, which argues (quoting Churchill Winston “The United States
invariably does the right thing, after having
Here is the first draft of the bailout bill. Just 20 pages into it, but it looks as if the right terms have been put into it. Breath-holding over. The
Militants threw two grenades into crowds of revelers in the Mexican town of Morelia yesterday, during celebrations meant to mark Mexico's independence day. Authorities were quick to accuse
The messy and disputatious aftermath of the war over South Ossetia promises to be as unsettling as the short and nasty armed conflict itself. What started in a corner of
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): Tim Duy has a great analysis of what the week-end teaches us about where we are with Lehman, Merrill, AIG etc. I think he is
Tom Griffin (London, OK): Gordon Brown has been coming around to the case for giving more tax powers to the Scottish Parliament for some time, as Brian Taylor notes, but
In part two, Blumenthal dissects the Iraq project - an "ideological dreamland" characterised by incompetence. "green zone of the mind" then on to torture and detention policy, the emergence of John McCain, unique challenge for the next president, and the end of an era
It sometimes seems that human violence knows no bounds. Recent reports of the brutal honour killings of five Pakistani women have shocked the world. And the reactions from the Pakistani
Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Strange Death of Republican America, talks to openDemocracy. Listen to parts one and two
Tom Griffin (London, OK): As much as Charles Clarke deprecates talk of 'Blairite plots' against the Prime Minister, his article in the New Statesman today will inevitably be
Many different explanations are offered in Russia today for the weakness of the democratic movement and its inability to oppose the Kremlin in any way. The factors include the lack
