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Nathalie Rothschild
The wannabe tyrants of Wall Street
Disdainful and conspiracy-minded, the protesters claiming to speak for all Americans are acting like teenage despots.
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| Monday 3 October 2011 |
Tim Black
The culture war over ‘Foxy Knoxy’
The pro-Amanda Knox campaign is far from saintly, what with its Italy-bashing and whispers about backward European men.
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| Wednesday 21 September 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Is this Monty Python’s Occupy Wall Street?
The surreal protests in New York’s financial district will certainly leave the system shaking. With laughter.
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| Thursday 15 September 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
How a few burqa-clad militants terrified the West
The so-called ‘Kabul offensive’ by the Taliban was nothing like the Tet Offensive in Vietnam – but it’s telling that the two are being compared.
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| Thursday 15 September 2011 |
Kabat and Adair
The feeble consensus on climate change
Why has it become taboo simply to point out that scientists disagree quite a lot about global warming?
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| Thursday 15 September 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
An election where everyone’s a loser
The victory of a little-known businessman over a New York Democrat reveals much about the state of US politics.
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| Friday 9 September 2011 |
Sean Collins
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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| Wednesday 7 September 2011 |
Philip Hammond
Where did all the goodies and baddies go?
Hollywood’s post-9/11 films have ditched old-style patriotic chest-beating in favour of moral self-flagellation.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
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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| Wednesday 24 August 2011 |
Tim Black
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a modern-day scapegoat
In the past, backward villagers would invest a goat with the sins of the village and then cast it out. Feminists tried the same trick with DSK.
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| Monday 22 August 2011 |
Sean Collins
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 |
Sean Collins
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 |
Sean Collins
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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| Wednesday 13 July 2011 |
Tim Black
The Human Rights Watch plan to save US imperialism
HRW is demanding that Bush be tried for war crimes only because it wants to resuscitate US authority over the uncivilised hordes.
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| Thursday 16 June 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Is the Archbishop still having sleepless nights?
Moralists who were outraged by America’s killing of bin Laden have said diddly-squat about subsequent assassinations.
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| Monday 13 June 2011 |
Tim Black
Putting Palin on the rack, twenty-first-century style
The liberal media’s gleeful ogling of Sarah Palin’s private emails captures what lies at the heart of today’s leaking culture: low political prurience.
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| Wednesday 13 April 2011 |
Sean Collins
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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| Thursday 3 March 2011 |
Ann Furedi
Late abortion: the new clash in the Choice Wars
Ann Furedi says Philadelphia’s ‘Baby Butcher’ scandal shows exactly why we need a principled defence of abortion – as late as necessary.
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| Wednesday 2 February 2011 |
Sean Collins
Message to America: Hands off Egypt!
After decades of backing autocrats, the best thing Washington can do for the cause of Egyptian democracy is to butt out.
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| Thursday 20 January 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The right to go berserk on air
The group campaigning for Rupert Murdoch to sack shrill ‘shock jock’ Glenn Beck is threatening free speech.
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