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/ 24 November 2008
In a bar in Zanzibar I saw two sex workers chatting up a couple of Germans. The men were in their 50s and balding — the women were young and pretty.
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/ 6 November 2008
There are times when the usually glacial pace of social progress accelerates to such a degree that you feel you are experiencing it in real time.
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/ 27 October 2008
The manipulation and intimidation that African-Americans must face in order to cast a vote will only get worse this year.
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/ 18 October 2008
Sam, the hotel waiter, wasn’t at breakfast on Friday morning. For the three weeks I have been in Roanoke we have talked politics over the buffet.
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/ 29 September 2008
There is common sense; and there is good sense. Common sense represents the received wisdom of years and the widespread opinion of the day.
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/ 22 September 2008
Historically, there’s been a last-minute swing away from black candidates by white voters. Will Barack change things?
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/ 9 September 2008
John F Kennedy was the best, Richard Nixon was one of the worst, Jimmy Carter never bothered and Bill Clinton just could not play by the rules, although he always convinced himself otherwise. Welcome to the world of United States presidential golf – a pursuit common to 14 of the last 17 presidents, even if most of them were pretty bad at it.
People see in Barack Obama what they want to see, writes Gary Younge.
He has roused black and young voters as never before, but Barack Obama has to maintain the rest of the Democratic base.
That an Obama victory would mark a radical improvement on United States President George Bush and be far preferable to John McCain, there can be no doubt.