US politics Articles

With Labor Day over, the race for the White House in 2012 has kicked off and at the top of everyone’s agendas are jobs. The August report card for employment was awful with not a single job created in the entire month. Currently there are 14 million unemployed persons...

Ten years after 9/11, the United States has a new window of opportunity to regain the initiative in the ‘missing battle’ of the campaign against terrorism. That is, a sustained soft power effort to win the battle for hearts and minds in predominantly Muslim countries....

When the United States were hit by riots in the 1960s, the political consequences for the Democrats were felt for decades to come. Labour can avoid a similar fate if it learns from history Addressing the House of Commons’ emergency sitting in the aftermath of the...

With the ‘top tier’ of the GOP now almost certainly set, two of the three candidates, Governor Rick Perry and Representative Michele Bachmann come from the religious right of the party, especially on social issues. As a newcomer to the USA seeing such culture wars...