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Published in: HomeA new American realityA half-decade after 9/11, the United States appeared to Andrew Stroehlein to be locked in a “conflict mentality”....
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Published in: openEconomyProving Standard & Poor's wrong: "Starve the beast" versus "Feed the dream"The downgrade of America's Sovereign debt rating is a recognition that the Gingrichite revolutionaries might win...
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Published in: HomeDefine ‘Meltable’ American
The legalisation of same sex marriage in New York and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas’s...
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Published in: HomeAmerica’s presidential politics
Barack Obama’s hopes of a second term are still bright. But twin policy crises and Republican stirrings are clouds...
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Published in: HomeThe 2012 U.S. presidential election: the issues to dominate, distract and influence
The state of the U.S. economy is still looming large over the opening presidential election race. It will likely...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's political suspense
The manoeuvring over the United States presidential election in 2012 is underway. But the nature of a contest...
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Published in: HomeVietnam to Iraq and AfPak: traps of history
The United States's prolonged counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raise strong echoes of Vietnam. But new...
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Published in: HomeThe new food movement: politics and pleasure
The emergent movements around the politics of food are a vital component of debates on the planet’s future, says...
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Published in: HomeAmerica and the Arab revolts: faces of power
The crisis in Libya is confronting the United States with a new awareness of its military and political constraints,...
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Published in: HomeA Surfer’s Guide to US Foreign Policy in Egypt, or Has Obama Been Snookered?
Reading the Washington runes. What happened with Mr Wisner, Egypt lobbyist and Obama's special envoy to Mubarak? Is...
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Published in: HomeDon't paint bulls-eyes on pictures of opponents, and why Sarah Palin should have known
There is a history of painting targets or cross-hairs onto pictures of those you disagree with in the USA. It is...
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Published in: HomeThe religious crisis of American liberalism
The extraordinary arc of Barack Obama’s popular appeal tells a deeper story of America: of how the relationship...
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Published in: HomeAmerican tragedy, political response
A murderous assault on a public meeting in Arizona has further exposed the United States’s deep political divisions....
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Published in: HomeHaiti beyond failure: ingredients of change
A year after the earthquake in Haiti, the tasks of reconstruction remain vast. A shadowy election and blocked...
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Published in: HomeA nation against Islam: America's new crusade
An accumulating network of ignorance and prejudice is being mobilised in the United States against hyperbolised...
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Published in: HomeAmerica’s fiscal-political trap
The systemic flaws in United States governance make long-term policy to address its cavernous deficits impossible,...
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Published in: HomeThe Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century WisconsinIn the wake of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Native Americans adopted...
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Published in: openEconomyWhy China's exchange rate is a red herring
The US obsession with the Chinese exchange rate is a classic example of blaming foreigners for domestic woes. And...
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Published in: HomeAfghanistan's roads to stability
Afghanistan was not always the abyss it’s thought to be today. If it is to be stabilised, it needs to resume its...
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Published in: HomeAmerica divided: the politics of inequality
The entrenchment of inequality in the United States damages the economy, degrades politics and corrodes the American...
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