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| Tuesday 17 August 2010 |
Sean Collins
The Culture War over the Ground Zero mosque
It’s hard to know who’s worse in the NYC mosque debate: the opportunistic, anti-Muslim right or the Muslim-loving, masses-fearing liberals.
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| Thursday 24 June 2010 |
Sean Collins
Staging a mutiny in Rolling Stone magazine
General McChrystal’s anti-Obama blabbing to a hippie mag exposes the internal disarray of the US elite.
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| Thursday 6 May 2010 |
Alex Standish
The hypocrisy of Arizona bashing
If the Grand Canyon state’s immigration laws seem authoritarian, wait till you see what the Democrats are proposing.
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| Friday 30 April 2010 |
Sean Collins
The Tea Party? Get over it already
In their discussion of the Tea Party as ‘delirious’ and ‘unhinged’, liberals like Bill Clinton are exposing their own snobbery.
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| Wednesday 14 April 2010 |
Tim Black
Welcome to the era of
anti-nuclear imperialism
Obama’s much-applauded war against nuclear weapons is about boosting Washington’s moral authority, not securing world peace.
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| Monday 22 March 2010 |
Sean Collins
This is not History with a capital H
The health reforms in the US are neither historic nor disastrous. They simply show what ‘Change’ means under Obama: tinkering on the edges.
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| Tuesday 9 March 2010 |
Sean Collins
The real scandal is this obsession with scandal
As Republicans and Democrats squabble over who is most corrupt, the American people become more cynical about the entire political class.
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| Thursday 11 February 2010 |
Sean Collins
Palin: if she didn’t exist, they’d have to invent her
It is the Democrats’ deep-seated disdain for the masses and the Republicans’ continued state of disarray that allows Sarah Palin to thrive.
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| Friday 5 February 2010 |
Sean Collins
The politico-porn behind the presidential race
From libidinous Bill and crazy Hillary to the narcissistic John Edwards, Game Change shines a glorious, gossipy light on American politics.
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| Monday 25 January 2010 |
Sean Collins
Bashing the bankers is making Obama go blind
Obama’s plan to reform the big banks is rank political opportunism and will do little to address the underlying problems of the financial crisis.
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| Thursday 21 January 2010 |
Sean Collins
What the ‘Mass mutiny’ shows about the Obama era
A win for a Republican unknown not only spoiled Obama’s one-year anniversary in office – it also exposed a deeper crisis of American politics.
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| Thursday 10 September 2009 |
Alex Standish
Obama: No one’s too cool for school
The true lesson of Obama’s contentious schools address was that he connects with the kids, but lacks a vision for education.
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| Monday 17 August 2009 |
Sean Collins
America’s health wars
The backlash against Obama’s modest healthcare reforms is born from the fear of an uncertain future and a distrust of the political class.
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| Monday 17 August 2009 |
Rob Lyons
Health wars: six myths about the NHS debate
The support for a Twitter campaign backing the UK health service has little to do with the merits of state-run medicine.
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| Tuesday 28 July 2009 |
Sean Collins
Obama: the king of low expectations
Healthcare controversies, dumb comments about the arrest of a Harvard professor, and ‘frumpy jeans’: is Obama losing his Midas touch?
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| Thursday 21 May 2009 |
Helen Searls
Obama and the politics of abortion
The reaction to the president’s speech at Notre Dame shows how much the debate about abortion has shifted in the United States.
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| Friday 6 March 2009 |
Sean Collins
From Nixonland to Obamaland
A study of how Richard Nixon exploited the Culture Wars in the 1960s sheds new light on his political era - and on the Obama era, too.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
Sean Collins
It takes more than money to revive an economy
Why President Obama’s $787 billion recovery package won’t fire up the US economy — and might even make things worse in the long term.
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| Wednesday 21 January 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Now it’s time to put the ‘we’ into ‘Yes we can’
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the Forty-Fourth President captured people’s yearning for historic momentum, and Obama’s lack of it.
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| Wednesday 21 January 2009 |
Sean Collins
Standing up to the ‘sapping of confidence’
The speech was perceptive, but Obama won’t be able to ‘renew America’ until he can properly define its crises and enemies.
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