A year after George Bushs re-election, every days news trumpets the opportunity for the Democrats. The question I posed in an openDemocracy article on 31 October (The death
Since the great revolution of 1789, French political history has been measured out in days those occasions when the Paris crowd pours into the street and strikes fear into the
This is not about oil, said Donald Rumsfeld, President Bushs secretary of defence, as America prepared to invade Iraq. Few objects have had greater priority in the Bush administration
The aftermath of Katrina reveals how sectarian conservative politics have brought disrepair and neglect to the heart of American politics, says Godfrey Hodgson democratic government must be revived.
It is
The Cherokee Indians, a civilised tribe in the language of the day, many of whom converted to Christianity and wore dresses and trousers, were the victims of one of the
The revelation, more than thirty years after the Watergate scandal brought down President Richard M Nixon in 1974, that Deep Throat - the conduit of secret information to journalists pursuing
At first sight, the compromise stitched together in best smoke-filled-room style in Senator John McCains office late on Monday night, 23 May, looks like a ray of hope breaking
Also by Godfrey Hodgson in openDemocracy:
* Can America go modest? (October 2001)
* From frontiersman to neocon (April 2003 )
* A comedy of errors: Tony Blair and America (April 2004 )
* Ronald
Anthony Sampson possessed three qualities that are indispensable in any good journalist. He wrote fast, fluently and with a pleasant wit, with phrases that stuck in the readers mind.
The actions of the George W Bush administration might be described by adapting a term once applied to the AustroHungarian empire: Despotismus gemildert durch Schlamperei. The return of the
Among the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville on the first page of his classic Democracy in America, nothing
Every country in the world has an ambiguous relationship with the United States none more than the United Kingdoms. The nature of this so-called special relationship is generally misunderstood.
