When The Poor Vote Conservative
People of my generation remember the 1960s for a wave of protest in the USA…More
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Goodbye Bipartisanship, Hello Victory
In his rallying speech to Democratic legislators on Saturday ahead of Sunday’s Congressional healthcare vote,…More
Propping Up The Giants
When the two US mortgage heavywieghts Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae went under, the major…More
Why the French Vote Democrat
If Barack Obama were campaigning to be the president of France he would be elected…More
Why America Chooses War
Critics intent on assigning blame for the disastrous foreign policy record of the current US…More
The Time Was Right
Russia’s war on Georgia, its biggest military adventure since the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, is…More
Goodies or Baddies?
Open war has broken out in Eastern Europe and with our news agencies managing only…More
In New York, Australians Are Like Texans
One of the ceaseless chants of the frantic Right-wing media cacophony over the past decade…More
Those Who Forget the Past
This is an article about American liberalism, a political tradition so reviled that its adherents…More
Which Way Will India Go?
You may have heard the saying that diplomacy is ‘war by other means’. In fact,…More