In the heat of the summer, the presidential race seems to have lost its fire. The contest between McCain and Obama had promised to be a clash of starkly different
Michael Walzer, the American political philosopher, breaks down the dimensions of the foreign policy of a prospective Obama administration at the "Dialogues on Civilisations" conference in Istanbul. There&
In April, the IHT/NYT columnist Roger Cohen gauged the public opinion of Asia in sweeping, clumsy strokes. While "Europe votes Democrat", he argued, "Asia tends Republican&
Over forty people were killed yesterday when a suicide car bomber slammed into the gates of the Indian embassy in Kabul. Many of the dead were Afghan civilians, lining up
Accepted wisdom has it that Barack Obama's race and mixed background will help repair the image of America abroad. This is supposed to be particularly true in west
On Time's RealClearPolitics blog, Bob Beckel - Walter Mondale's campaign manager for the 1984 presidential election - finds clear parallels between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
With the general election before us, the presidential campaign has at last shifted to the contest most of us have been relishing. John McCain vs. Barack Obama seems a battle
John McCain unleashed a salvo against Barack Obama during his speech yesterday at the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. He wasn't the first prominent Republican to use US-Israel relations
Hillary Clinton's substantial victory over Obama in Puerto Rico yesterday has encouraged her campaign to keep clutching at straws. Terry McAuliffe, the campaign chair, argued that the result
Earlier this week, openUSA attended a lecture by Sidney Blumenthal at the RSA, where he plugged his new book, The Strange Death of Republican America. Blumenthal, a regular openDemocracy contributor
In the New York Times, an op-ed by Nathan Thrall and Jesse J. Wilkins draws lessons from a particularly odd historical analogy. The authors describe the unsuccessful meeting between John
In an earlier post on openUSA, I took a cold look at Robert Kagan's new treatise, "The End of the End of History". Kagan - one
