The extraordinary, compelling race in the United States for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee has been settled in favour of Barack Obama. But a moment of triumph can
Hillary Clinton won a handsome victory on 13 May 2008 in the Democratic primary election in West Virginia, whose people are among the poorest, most racially homogeneous, and least educated
Those who practice and those who report American politics have - almost overnight - woken up to the existence of a group of people called "superdelegates". There may
The cumbersome calendar and complex arithmetic of the race for the party nominations in the United States presidential election - particularly on the Democratic side - present two fascinating questions
Forty years ago, in the early weeks of the last "critical election" in the United States, I travelled to California with Robert Kennedy as he tried to assess
The American political scientist, the late Nelson Polsby, once pointed out to an Oxford seminar how far better informed the American government had become since the early days of the
One of the most enduring concepts of America political science is the idea of "realignment". This is the idea that some presidential elections mark something more than the
The George W Bush administration proclaimed the invasion of Iraq as part of the United States's effort to bring to the middle east the benefits of democracy. It
Long after George W Bush and his largely discredited administration are history, a legacy of their partisan zeal and ideological extremism will remain: a Supreme Court frequently controlled by conservative
Seventeen months before polling day for the 2008 presidential election in the United States, the scene is more chaotic and harder to predict than for many decades. The result, at
Mariano Aguirre, Fride
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, Afford
Patrice de Beer, journalist
Brian Brivati, Kingston University
Camilla Toulmin, IIED
Godfrey Hodgson, author
Ruth Lister, Loughborough University
Nasrin Alavi, author
Abdul-Rehman Malik, Q-News
First Helen Mirren, now Elizabeth Windsor. Her Majesty's visit to Jamestown and - no doubt more to her taste - to the Kentucky Derby, have brought Americans face
