Police power and black lives are at opposite ends of a morally indefensible value system.
A union leader could be the next Chicago mayor, signalling a shift towards progressive politics.
Author and poet Maya Angelou’s passing leaves us to contemplate – for us as well as her – how far daring can get you.
A deadlocked political culture is crippling the US economy and there is no end in sight to the crisis.
The euphoria of 2008 has gone, but the US president’s second win is remarkable precisely because it is not as symbolic, writes Gary Younge.
Studies show that Americans believe the economy is important, but they largely still vote according to race and class. Gary Younge reports.
A global poll for the BBC World Service has revealed that 20 out of 21 countries preferred Barack Obama to his challenger.
Barack Obama may have had the upper hand in the latest presidential debate, but the real loser was politics, writes Gary Younge.
When people go out in Chicago, it transpires, they are more likely to get shot. The murder rate for the first half of the year was up by 38%.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s chief weakness is that he sounds like a chief executive.
Organised labour has learnt a valuable lesson in its challenge against Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker, writes Gary Younge.
United States’ citizens acting at the behest of their country have shown an alarming pattern of despicable behaviour, including torture.
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/ 9 September 2011
America’s response to the 9/11 attacks was — and remains — wrong in almost every respect.
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/ 5 September 2011
The decade since the terror attacks in the US has been filled with needless destruction — but no revenge.
The riots cannot be explained by criminality or deprivation alone. But they were unwise and failed to advance any cause.
If the United States government goes into default, it will be because it won’t pay its bills.
In his book, <i>Audacity of Hope</i>, US President Barack Obama described himself as a Rorschach test.
To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it. They act as if all their Kool-Aid has been spiked.
Pity George Bush. Scanning eight years of calamity for the lowest point in his presidency could not have been easy.
This incoherent group has no leaders, no policies, no headquarters. It is held together by Fox TV and big money.
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/ 25 October 2010
The US electorate’s mistake was to believe that transformation was something you could impart to a higher power.
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/ 16 October 2010
But amid all the political weirdness, the middle and working classes aren’t putting up a fight
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/ 1 February 2010
The Caribbean nation should be reimbursed for centuries of punitive treatment and brutality by the outside world.
The ease with which the plane bomber could operate exposes the vacuity and recklessness at the heart of the US response to 9/11
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/ 21 December 2009
In poorer, isolated towns the right-wing protest movement is flourishing. Republicans as well as Obama must take note.
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/ 8 September 2009
A thousand demonstrators gathered at North Carolina’s capitol to support United States President Barack Obama’s proposals for universal healthcare.
African-Americans have been hit harder by this recession than others — and the president should be wary of lecturing them.
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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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/ 2 November 2007
Just more than a week ago, about a thousand activists from the Christian right gathered in Washington to pass judgement on the Republican presidential candidates. At the Family Research Council’s (FRC) Values Voters summit, the values most cherished did not sit well with most Americans. Polls show that a consistent and substantial majority in the US are pro-choice, support stem cell research and oppose amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=cwc_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/300732/Icon_CWC.gif" align=left border=0></a>Three years ago, during an evening celebrating the West Indies’ 75th anniversary as a Test-playing team, Viv Richards took to the stage of Birmingham’s Symphony Hall to receive an award as one of the Caribbean’s top five players of all time. At the crease in the 70s and 80s, Richards always cut a distinctive figure.
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/ 11 December 2006
Afew weeks ago, Washington-based radio host Jerry Klein announced his own very radical plan to assuage public fears of terrorism. All Muslims, he suggested, should be branded with a crescent-shaped tattoo or be forced to wear a red armband. The phones rang off the hook.
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/ 28 October 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140248/USA2.GIF" align=left>Surveys conducted by 10 of the world’s leading newspapers highlight growing anti-Americanism among the United States’s traditional allies during George W Bush’s presidency. This is directed not at the American people, but at their government.
The survey project shows that in seven of nine countries, a majority rejects Bush and the US invasion of Iraq. The exceptions are Israel and, surprisingly, Russia.