Bill Clinton Articles

For much of the last three decades, leftwing populism has seemed something of a contradiction in terms. Even after Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan departed the political stage, the right retained a powerful hold over much of the traditional discourse of populism:...

In 1988, then vice-president George HW Bush made a speech at his party’s national convention accepting the party’s nomination for president. The most famous line from this speech was a clear unequivocal pledge – ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ The pledge was credited,...

These could be the final days for the Republican party as we know it. Polls indicate that more Americans are blaming Republicans (44 per cent) than Democrats (35 per cent) for the current American federal government shutdown. A substantial majority of Americans (72...

‘We know why we were left to die. Because there are no resources in Rwanda. Only Rwandans.’ The speaker was a Rwandan politician we visited in 2006. A progressive approach to humanitarian intervention must begin with the desire to prove her wrong. If the left's ideals...