Clinton’s memoir shows she is fit to be president, but she’s not giving anything away just yet.
With the war’s centenary near, this is not a parlour game. Counterfactual conjecture allows us to see the conflict far more objectively.
America is a country of mad people governed by buffoons. That’s the way a lot of Europeans are content to see it, writes <b>Martin Kettle</b>.
It’s great the internet has engaged us in Australian elections and Alaska, but language has cut Europe from our mental maps.
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/ 7 November 2008
Let’s be clear about this: Barack Obama has achieved an immense and historic victory.
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/ 17 October 2008
The presidency is not won or lost by televised knockabout, but Obama has taken the opportunity to confirm his credentials.
On April 30 the Boston Globe journalist Charlie Savage wrote an article whose contents become more astonishing the more one reads them. Over the past five years, Savage reported, President George W Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws that have been enacted by the United States Congress since he took office.
The soccer World Cup fills me with dread. I want to look, but also to look away. Not because I don’t like football. I do. Not because I’m fussed about the St George flag. I’m all for it. Nor am I in any liberal confusion about wanting England to win. I want that too. Not even because I can’t stand the hysteria: Why can’t we have a commentary-free channel that just shows the games?
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/ 22 February 2006
If the great history lesson of the 20th century is that socialism does not work, then the watershed event in that tragic enlightenment was the one that took place in Moscow 50 years ago this month — the so-called ”secret speech” delivered by Nikita Khrushchev to a closed session of the 20th congress of the Soviet Communist Party on February 25 1956.
A crisis? Sure. But which one and whose? As the results sank in on Sunday, the clever men in suits on France’s TV5 reeled off plenty to choose from: a European crisis; a domestic crisis; a crisis of legitimacy; a crisis of institutions. But the real crisis is in Paris. The detail of France’s 55%-45% verdict on the European Union constitution is illuminating.