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The Sydney Morning Herald
That a gap exists between the ideals of US foreign policy and the messy realities of American involvement in the world is obvious to anyone who has studied history...
The Age
At the height of the 1956 US presidential election, Adlai Stevenson said of Richard Nixon: ''This is a man of many masks. Who can say they have seen his real face?''...
When it comes to foreign policy, American wants it both ways - to be admired for its principles while remaining feared and powerful.
Wall Street Journal
In Chicago they were known as the policy racket. In New York, they were called the numbers game. The history of small lotteries that thrived in poor American neighbourhoods in...
National Times
Former Clinton administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros, says that while there is a need to regulate mortgage markets, this should not become a move towards curtailing the...
Battered by the financial crisis, American think tanks are facing strong competition from new institutes from Asia to Europe.
The US-Japan alliance has hit a midlife crisis, with squabbles over where to relocate a military base and concerns that Tokyo is flirting with Beijing.
Will Washington and Beijing choose mutual economic benefit over political and ideological conflict? The jury is still out.
National Times
Disaster recovery expert Edward Blakely says after three major disasters in the Gulf-Caribbean, New Orleans, Haiti and now the Gulf oil spill, we have to pronounce the responses as strike outs...
The domestic issues facing President Obama are hard, but the foreign policy issues are even harder.
China is rapidly becoming the dominant superpower, but first a little housekeeping is in order.
American universities are changing their ways to keep ahead of their foreign competitors.
China is widely blamed for its role in the global financial crisis and even for high unemployment in America, but the criticism may not be entirely justified.
The election of Barack Obama has had surprisingly little impact on a nation fixated with race.
As world power tilts from West to East, policy makers must accept the increasingly dominant role of China.
A good deal of confusion has accompanied the rise, death and rebirth of conservatism in America.
When hard times hit, many Americans were forced to pack up their troubles in search of work and a better future.
Exaggerated reports of America's imminent demise have been around for more than 50 years.
The second issue of the Centre's magazine, American Review.
Sarah Palin's autobiography is a scathing indictment of herself.
