July 24, 2008
Every so often, people ask me for suggestions for the best books to read about modern American politics. For what it’s worth, I usually refer them to the efforts by E.J. Dionne jr. and Godfrey Hodgson to explain the crisis of American liberalism and other big themes in US politics over the last 40...
go to article »July 23, 2008
Ahead of Senator Obama's planned visit to Britain in a few weeks, a new a Guardian/ICM poll shows that 53% of Britons feel believe that Senator Obama would make the best president, with only 11% favouring McCain (36% declined to express an opinion). These results confirms numerous poll results durin...
go to article »July 3, 2008
You know what is a sign of the times? That the President of the United States in a world wide poll is less favorable then the other President he is trying to go to war with. Yes…ladies and gentlemen…I do not speak falsely… according to the latest World Public Opinion aggregated pol...
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The Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a 5-4 majority on 12 June 2008 in favour of a case brought on behalf of detainees held at Guantánamo, whose effect is to declare that those incarcerated in the military prison-camp there have full rights of habeas corpus under the US constitution. Du...
go to article »June 27, 2008
A long-term consequence of the Iraq war is the production of a new generation of young paramilitaries with combat experience in urban environments against the world's best equipped army (see "Afghanistan in an amorphous war", 19 June 2008). Even if the conflict in Iraq does ease in ...
go to article »June 19, 2008
June 16, 2008
Accepted wisdom has it that Barack Obama's race and mixed background will help repair the image of America abroad. This is supposed to be particularly true in west Asia. As Yasser Khalil wrote in the Christian Science Monitor recently, Obama's Muslim heritage and promised diplomatic approac...
go to article »June 13, 2008
The bitter contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has finally come to an end. Will the Democratic Party avoid following the example of France's Parti Socialiste and grow beyond its wounds? Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination yesterday, bringing to an end a bitter cont...
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The influential pollster John Zogby couches his analysis of Hillary Clinton's defeat in terms of generation. "Boomerism" has been swept off the political landscape by an electorate tired of its leaders' "self-centredness and permanent adolescence" - the supposed "ha...
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With the general election before us, the presidential campaign has at last shifted to the contest most of us have been relishing. John McCain vs. Barack Obama seems a battle of stark contrast: age against youth, experience against brash confidence, the "Great American Century" against 21s...
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