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The Republican Vision
Clint Eastwood speaks during the final day of the Republican National ConventionThe spectral void that haunted the Republican National Convention was not the empty chair that lingered behind Clint...
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The Ashamed American
President Obama (credit: Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)Presidential elections in the United States are a disgraceful farce. Every four years, I feel more and more dejected about the process and my...
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Islamophobia in the United States
(credit: CAIR, UC Berkeley)I recommend to readers a special edition published recently in The Nation on Islamophobia in the United States. From extrajudicial surveillance and sting operations...
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The Turnaround Specialist
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt RomneyOpening his speech on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute, Mitt Romney hailed George Marshall, the sage VMI alumnus who went on to become...
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Better Late than Never
France’s President Francois Hollande delivers a speech at the Senegalese National Assembly in Dakar No, I’m not referring to political contortionist Mitt Romney’s pivot back to the moderate middle....
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Back Channel
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and US President Barack Obama. (credit: Vanderlei Almeida and Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) A confusing turn of events took place over the weekend with regard to...
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The Final Face Off
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama at the first presidential debate in Denver With just over two weeks until the US presidential election on 6 November, the two candidates faced off in a televised debate one...
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The Cautious American President
US President Barack ObamaAt the end of his first term, President Obama’s public foreign policy in the Middle East has reflected his presidency as a whole: cautious, measured, haunted by its own...
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Difference in Degree, but not in Kind
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands after the final presidential debate.The final debate between America’s two presidential rivals made one thing painfully clear: US foreign policy under President...
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