Presidential politics: Scott Walker drops out
GOVERNOR Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who today ended his Republican presidential campaign after a brutal collapse in his polling numbers, liked to present himself as the new Ronald Reagan. He dedicated...
View ArticleCongress: Exit John Boehner
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Dominant and dangerous Fly Title: Congress Rubric: The resignation of America’s top Republican will not change much...
View ArticleFeuding Republicans: The new McCarthyites
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The reluctant European Fly Title: Feuding Republicans Rubric: Congress’s majority party cannot decide whether or not to...
View ArticleRepublicans in Congress: The Speaker’s shoes
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Reinventing the company Fly Title: Republicans in Congress Rubric: Paul Ryan is a good man to lead the congressional...
View ArticleThe Republican Party: Clean-cut radicals
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The indispensable European Fly Title: The Republican Party Rubric: At last, the ascendant stars of the Republican Party...
View ArticleThe Republicans: The trouble with being right
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The indispensable European Fly Title: The Republicans Rubric: A year out from the election, the GOP looks simultaneously...
View ArticleNo sanctuary: Governors seek to exclude Syrian refugees
SLAMMING the door on Syrian refugees would be a betrayal of America's values, declared Barack Obama on November 16th. Refugees should not, he said, be conflated with terrorists. “The people who are...
View ArticleLexington: The Firewall State
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: How to fight back Fly Title: Lexington Rubric: If the Republican campaign is to return to normality, it will do so in...
View ArticleLexington: With Cruz, they’d lose
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Clear thinking needed Fly Title: Lexington Rubric: Ted Cruz, a firebrand Republican, peddles a self-serving myth about...
View ArticleThe Republican contest: A wasted vote for Jeb Bush
FAILING, disappointed, humiliated by six months of well-aimed taunts from Donald Trump, Jeb Bush has had a horrible six months. Once the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, he probably, it turns...
View ArticleThe week ahead: Iran's black gold starts flowing
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: The week ahead Rubric: Republican presidential candidates debate ahead of the Iowa Caucuses, Iran enters the oil market at a...
View ArticleThe Economist explains: How America’s presidential candidates are chosen
AMERICA’s primary-election season kicks off on February 1st, when Democrats and Republicans in Iowa gather at caucuses (precinct meetings) to say who their party’s presidential candidate should be. New...
View ArticleAmerica’s primary elections: Outsiders’ chance
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The brawl begins Fly Title: America’s primary elections Rubric: The primary contest is about to get serious. It has...
View ArticleThe shadow event in Iowa: The reason for Trump’s Fox News tantrum
IN THE run-up to the last Republican primary debate before the start of the presidential voting contest in Iowa, Donald Trump once more dominated the news cycle. It wasn’t another of his provocative...
View ArticleThe week ahead: Trumpism marches south: February 15th 2016
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: The week ahead: Trumpism marches south Rubric: Republican presidential candidates vie for South Carolina’s primary nomination...
View ArticleAntonin Scalia, 1936-2016: A judge’s death starts a political battle
IT HAS been 11 years since an American Supreme Court justice has died while on the bench. And the death of that judge, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, had much narrower political and legal...
View ArticleReplacing Antonin Scalia: The folly of the GOP’s pre-emptive strike over a...
THE BATTLE lines have been drawn. All eleven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have taken a solemn oath not to “hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until our next president is...
View ArticleThe Republican party: Donald Trump and mugwumps
UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: The Republican party Rubric: Mr Trump's candidacy is so unusual that you have to go back a long way for a historical...
View ArticleThe primaries: The party declines
UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Battle lines Fly Title: The primaries Rubric: American politics looks so strange right now partly because both...
View ArticleThe Republicans after Super Tuesday: Donald Trump under fire from all sides
AN UNPRECEDENTED war of words between Donald Trump and Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s nominee for the presidency in 2012, set the tone for the Republican primary debate held on March 3rd at the...
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