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Tuesday 2 June 2009
Tiller’s death: don’t blame Bill O’Reilly Heaping ‘moral blame’ on to crass anti-abortion broadcasters dangerously blurs the distinction between words and actions.

Thursday 21 May 2009
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.

Wednesday 21 January 2009
Che Obama: the new cult of personality Why does no one else find it creepy that Obama’s image now adorns everything from t-shirts to hats to train tickets?

Thursday 30 October 2008
Why shouldn’t money and politics mix? Liberals once complained about candidates ‘buying elections’. Yet now that Obama is raking it in, they’ve shut up.

Wednesday 1 October 2008
A Capitol crisis The Bailout Fallout: The failure of America’s leaders to hatch a plan for the financial crisis exposes the emptiness of their ‘politics of change’.

Monday 8 September 2008
Sarah Palin and the rise of tribal politics In their reaction to Palin, Republicans and Democrats seemed to be worlds apart - and that’s because they are.

Wednesday 6 February 2008
Republicans: a party in pieces The McCain, Huckabee and Romney roadshows showed that the GOP ain’t so grand anymore.

Wednesday 16 January 2008
From ‘Hillary hate’ to ‘Hillary hurrahism’ The Clintons did more than most to turn politics into a personality contest. So why is Hillary so shocked to be judged by what she wears and how she cries?

Monday 9 July 2007
The shocking truth about the 'Scooter' scandal Republicans and Democrats are obsessively debating the fate of Lewis Libby because they have nothing of substance to say about Iraq.

Friday 6 January 2006
The double tragedy in West Virginia How the media helped to make a bad situation worse.

Friday 28 October 2005
How low can Bush go? The president’s retreat on Miers leaves him and his party in a lose-lose situation.

Wednesday 14 September 2005
Government collapses, Americans come through Katrina's winds exposed the holes in the second-term Bush administration.

Friday 3 December 2004
Suffering the Democrat blues The rise of Post-Election Selection Trauma in the USA shows just how personal the political has become.

Thursday 28 October 2004
Divided States of America The fewer differences there are between the candidates, the more bitter the Republican/Democrat divide seems to become.

Thursday 23 September 2004
Who’s afraid of Nader? Instead of trying to win votes, the Democrats are trying to stop Ralph Nader from stealing them.

Friday 3 September 2004
US election: a two-donkey race Why Bush and Kerry remain neck-and-neck.

Wednesday 30 June 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 sparks Bush fires Michael Moore's new film raises the temperature by appealing to the guts, not the head.

Friday 21 May 2004
Reading the marriage bans Why does President Bush think a constitutional ban on gay marriage will solve his domestic problems?

Friday 7 May 2004
Self-combusting Bush An Englishwoman in Washington on why, despite a lack of serious political opposition, the Bushies can’t do right for doing wrong.

Wednesday 17 March 2004
‘Electable’ - but what else? John Kerry is the 'Anyone But Bush' candidate.
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