On June 1, the US Department of Education will receive a second round of bids from states competing in the ‘Race...
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Out of the shadows?
On Friday, Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law sweeping new powers to limit illegal immigration. The new...
From the Supreme Court to the Tory manifesto
In DC this weekend there was a festival to mark the end of cherry blossom season. It's been an annual tradition since...
US healthcare aftermath: lessons for UK politics
I spent last week in Moscow, a strange destination for Spring Break. It was hardly Cancun, but on the upside it...
Hidden in plain sight: the transparency conundrum
Yesterday Barack Obama had his annual health check and, in line with tradition, the results were published in full. So...
Tory care tactics mirror Republican health intransigence
On the surface, the summit is a forcing mechanism to push the final mile to a compromise bill, but politically it's a...
Obama at the Republican retreat
I was in Vermont this weekend, birthplace of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream and home to the tree-covered Green Mountains,...
The state of the presidency
As with all big set pieces, the 24-hour news networks get rather giddy in the run-up to the state of the union. This...
Brown’s victory: what it means for Obama and for the UK
With that game over, the cameras here are now turning to back to healthcare, where Brown's victory has big...
What will Massachusetts mean for the Obama presidency?
This week has seen the party in full catastrophe-avoidance mode. Bill Clinton and John Kerry were here to rally...