International Politics
Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz described Obama’s address as “the most emotional speech I’ve ever seen him give.” We have just witnessed what could be a turning point in the Obama presidency. In many respects we can thank Scott Brown. For it took the humiliating loss of Ted Kennedy’s senate seat, and the even …
By Sasha Abramsky Late Sunday night, Obama’s presidency, written off by so many, was resurrected. In securing passage of health care reform in the House of Representatives — a holy grail for Democratic presidents going back to at least the New Deal years, and one seen by many as being impossible in the wake of …
The red shirts have become a powerful player on the political stage. They cannot be ignored anymore,” says Michael Nelson, a German academic who has written on Thai political parties. “Nobody would have imagined in the early 1990s that the rural people who are red shirt supporters today would have come out to show their …
United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace. Middle-class wages have lagged. Unemployment will remain high. It will take years to fully recover from the financial crisis. David Brooks This confluence of crises has produced a surge …
red shirts attempt to force political change
Everyone understands that China deserves a big say in what goes on in its neighborhood. But what most people haven’t noticed yet is that Beijing also wants to write—or, at least, help write—new rules of the road for the world. “China now wants a seat at the head of the table,” says Cheng Li, director …
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