Lame Duck Meltdown
The initial failure and eventual passage of the $US700 billion dollar US financial rescue package…More
Tagged: International Affairs
The Black Art of American Elections
Every US presidential race of recent times brings with it claims that Candidate X is…More
RIP: The Press
Reading the recently deceased David Foster Wallace’s book on John McCain (McCain’s Promises: Aboard the…More
Tonight We're Gonna Party Like it's 2004
On a street lined with near identical beige McMansions, it isn’t hard to find the…More
No End in Sight
On 18 December last year, a week before Christmas, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…More
My Friend, Where You From?
It may surprise you to hear this, but Fidel Castro is not the most popular…More
Down and Out in Santa Barbara
After 24 hours in transit, we landed in Los Angeles last week just as Bush…More
Why the French Vote Democrat
If Barack Obama were campaigning to be the president of France he would be elected…More
Space: The New Cold Warzone?
If you have been reading the Chinese media lately, there will be little you don’t…More
Recycling Pakistan
In February 2008, the Brookings Institution of Washington, DC, hosted an exercise in moral abstraction…More