United States

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Six claims on detainee torture, skewered

Christie Thompson | 25 April 2013 |

tags: 911, detainees, torture, United States

A scathing report on the treatment of detainees by the US refutes key claims defending the use of torture.

Avoiding the Wars That Never End

George Friedman | 16 January 2013 |

tags: terrorism, United States, warfare

The United States is being forced by the permanent warfare being waged by Islamist terrorists to alter its strategic view of the world.

The crisis of the middle class and American power

George Friedman | 09 January 2013 |

tags: economic crisis, middle class, United States

The United States was built on the assumption that a rising tide lifts all ships. That assumption is now at risk.

Where an exhausted society can flourish again

Yuval Levin | 26 October 2012 |

tags: civil society, United States, welfare state

Between the government and the individual is a vital space which both conservatives and liberals are neglecting.

Let us pray…

Carolyn Moynihan | 07 May 2010 |

tags: atheism, religion, United States

...that America will not become just another dreary secularist state.

When China rules the world? Sorry, not likely

Kim R. Holmes | 23 February 2010 |

tags: China, superpower, United States

China's perceived rise to superpower likely won't happen. It takes a democracy to lead the world.

Scary stuff

Katie Hinderer | 29 October 2009 |

tags: consumerism, Halloween, United States

47 million Americans will don costumes this Halloween - and that’s just the adults.

Capitalism: A Love Story

William Park | 08 October 2009 |

tags: films, politics, United States

Is Michael Moore's latest documentary on capitalism sincere or merely clever propaganda?

Neo-conservatism: Irving Kristol’s living legacy

Cas Mudde | 25 September 2009 |

tags: neo-conservatism, politics, United States

The godfather of America's neocons has died, but it is too soon to bury his movement.

Genetic testing for sporting cash cow

Michael Cook | 11 September 2009 |

tags: genetic testing, sport, United States

Baseballs' impresarios are happy to tear a 16-year-old from his country and family, but first they want proof he is the real goods.

Time to rein in investment banks?

Bill James | 05 September 2009 |

tags: business, economics, United Kingdom, United States

As economic green shoots appear, is it time to relax, or to redouble efforts to rein in investment bankers?

The Democrats after Kennedy

Godfrey Hodgson | 31 August 2009 |

tags: Barack Obama, Edward Kennedy, United States

What Obama must now do is to articulate a clear, distinct course of policy.

Ted Kennedy’s ambiguous legacy

Michael Cook | 29 August 2009 |

tags: Catholicism, Edward Kennedy, politics, United States

For America’s most famous Catholic, morality and politics had little to do with each other.