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| Friday 3 February 2012 |
The corruption of American politics
From Occupy to the Tea Party, the obsession with corruption is far more damaging to democracy than politicians' alleged shady dealings.
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| Tuesday 24 January 2012 |
A political fiasco of historic proportions
Obama is ailing, yet the bunch of political misfits posing as Republican presidential candidates can’t make any mileage from that.
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| Friday 23 December 2011 |
Blaming all the president’s men
Journalist Ron Suskind's scintillating account of chaos and dissent in Obama's White House would be better if he had shaken off his teenage habit of blaming everything on Wall Street.
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| Wednesday 23 November 2011 |
Occupy: the sad reality and the mad fantasies
Far from being clear-eyed, Occupy Wall Street is a blank slate on to which every opportunistic op-ed writer is scribbling his or her pet concerns.
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| Thursday 20 October 2011 |
Turning protest into a freakfest
Why do the great and good of America want to be best friends with the Occupy Wall Street oddballs?
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| Friday 9 September 2011 |
After 11 September: their ‘resilience’, and ours
New Yorkers demonstrated true bravery and heroism in response to 9/11. The same cannot be said for America’s political leaders.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
What the hurricane hype reveals about NYC
City Hall’s overreaction to Irene suggests New York City is losing its reputation for toughness and swagger.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
President Obama’s Summertime Blues
Yes, his approval ratings have plummeted, but Republicans shouldn’t gloat: Americans have had it with the whole political class.
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| Tuesday 2 August 2011 |
The real cause of the US debt crisis? Slow growth
The pantomime political debate about the debt ceiling is distracting attention from the parlous state of the productive economy.
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| Tuesday 26 July 2011 |
Debt ceiling debate: bad political theatre
Even more than the Eurozone crisis, the debt discussion in the US shines a harsh light on the dysfunctional nature of the modern political class.
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| Thursday 9 June 2011 |
Weiner: what a rubbish sex scandal
The Anthony Weiner incident shows that politicians are now so lame that they don’t even do scandal well.
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| Monday 6 June 2011 |
‘Mediscare’: the US politics of fear
The debate over Medicare shows that both Republicans and Democrats now rely on panic over principle.
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| Wednesday 13 April 2011 |
US budget showdown: the politics of pantomime
For all the attempts to talk up the budget clash as a great historical drama, in truth it revealed the pathetic state of American politics.
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| Friday 8 April 2011 |
We should stick up for reason and passion
David Brooks' The Social Animal elevates emotion over reason, instinctive feeling over conscious thought. But today, we must defend both.
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| Friday 1 April 2011 |
Reason versus emotion? It’s a false dichotomy
With its elevation of intuition over reason and the unconscious mind over rational thought, David Brooks’ new book is an explicit attack on Enlightenment values. It’s time we defended rationalism and passion.
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| Wednesday 30 March 2011 |
Libya: moral blackmail trumps political debate
In his address to the nation, Obama cynically elevated the moral imperative over 'nasty' political criticisms.
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| Friday 18 March 2011 |
Libya: how the West just made things worse
Sean Collins reports from New York on how the UN’s green light for military action may wreck any hope of freedom for the people of Libya.
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| Tuesday 1 March 2011 |
A faux war in Wisconsin
This is not a return of class war to America. It’s a clash between nervous-nellie Republicans and trade unions that can only play the victim card.
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| Tuesday 15 February 2011 |
Obama on Egypt: more confused than cool
The idea that Obama played it ‘brilliantly cool’ on Egypt represents a spectacular rewriting of history.
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| Tuesday 8 February 2011 |
For America, stability trumps freedom
In echoing Mubarak’s call for an ‘orderly transition’, the US is undermining the fight for democratic rights.
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