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The Drum (ABC Online)
The US midterm elections have given America the equivalent of a hung parliament, but unlike Australia and the UK, says John Barron, there is no obvious basis for coalition-building...
There are no easy answers in Iraq but the way forward must reflect the needs of the Iraqi people, not US domestic concerns.
For all the grand speeches, President Obama has little of substance to show on the foreign policy front.
IPA Review
Tom Switzer writes about what is probably the most discussed yet widely misunderstood political movement of recent times - the Tea Party.
Australian Literary Review
In this authoritative essay, Professor Geoffrey Garrett cuts through the fog of political war to reveal a President with a substantial record of achievement who just may manage to reinvent...
After the worst recession in more than 70 years, Americans are coming to terms with a new age of uncertainty.
After an impressive response to the economic crisis, the Obama administration has failed to adequately address the challenges that lie ahead.
In the land of free speech, tearing people apart on the airwaves is not confined to one side of politics.
The Age
In the midst of near-double-digit unemployment, skyrocketing national debt, home foreclosures and an unpopular war, Tom Switzer says the American public are in a foul mood and overwhelmingly believe the nation...
The third issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
America's dramatic economic slowdown during the 1970s set the scene for today's bitter, divisive and cynical mood.
Before he found fame and fortune, Christopher Hitchens was an ordinary boy from a lower middle-class English family. It was his love for words which took him far, all the way to America.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Geoffrey Garrett writes that the Democrats will take a bath at the polls next week. But like the self-styled ''comeback kid'' Bill Clinton, Barack Obama may well bounce back...
by Brendon O'Connor and Srdjan Vucetic
This essay published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs considers how two countries with much in common came to differ on the question of whether to...
Canberra Times
As the mid-term elections approach, Dr Lesley Russell says the growing lack of trust in government is particularly ironic given that in 2008 over fifty per cent of Americans voted for...
The Spectator Australia
Citing the growing consensus in America and Britain that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, Tom Switzer and Neil Clark say it is time for Prime Minister Gillard to accept...
The National Times
Edward Blakely says Australia should follow America's lead by investing in 'transit hubs', which involve retail and residential development in proximity to the most efficient public transport routes. Edward Blakely...
The Australian
Geoffrey Garrett says the time is now for a reset in China-US relations in which the story moves from trade and currency to investment between the two countries. Geoffrey Garrett is...
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