The people call for Brown

Brian Lilley | 19 January 2010

Shock and upset. The people have reclaimed the seat that once belonged to Ted Kennedy and they've given it to an unlikely victor.

The other 1989s

Fred Halliday | 09 November 2009 | comment 5

While the break-up of the Soviet empire brought freedom to Eastern Europe, elsewhere the consequences were often destructive and deadly.

Why we remember

John Robson | 09 November 2009 | comment 15

Remembrance Day is not a pacifist occasion but a recollection of  our solemn contract with those who have fallen.

Buying time

George Friedman | 04 November 2009 | comment 3

Unearthing Obama's strategy at the present moment is difficult, but this does not mean it is not there, as strategy is less a matter of choice than of geopolitical reality.

The Roaring Year

Vytautas Landsbergis | 16 October 2009 | comment 2

A MercatorNet exclusive: the first head of state of Lithuania after the break-up of the Soviet Union recalls the heady days of 1989.

God’s Battalions

Bill Muehlenberg | 16 October 2009 | comment 20

After centuries of apologies for Christian perfidy, perhaps it is time to rethink the Crusades. 

Whole Foods, whole health and a whole big mess

Brian Lilley | 22 August 2009 | comment 4

Does everything, including food, where we shop and how we live have to be divided along partisan lines?

Is Obama running out of time?

Godfrey Hodgson | 12 August 2009 | comment 16

Barack Obama's stalled healthcare-reform plan reveals how crucial features of the American political system operate.

Abortion unbound

Sheila Liaugminas | 26 July 2009 | comment 5

If passed as written, health care ‘reform’ in America would expand abortion more radically than anything since Roe.

Barack Obama: a six-month assessment

Godfrey Hodgson | 13 July 2009 | comment 17

The potential of the United States president to make the change he promised in the domestic arena is becoming clearer.

After Palin

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 July 2009 | comment 6

Sarah, we hardly knew ya’.

Versailles, 1919-2009: a new world order’s legacy

David A. Andelman | 03 July 2009 | comment 8

The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today across a huge area from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans and even beyond.

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

Francis Phillips | 01 July 2009 | comment 3

The general who commanded Saddam Hussein's troops during the First Gulf War was a fundamentally decent man caught in a web of corruption.

Speaking the truth, and seeking it

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 June 2009 | comment 34

President Obama has spoken with respect and candour to the world’s Muslims. On other issues we await consistency.

Saruman at Notre Dame

Thaddeus J. Kozinski | 22 May 2009 | comment 64

President Obama's masterful speech was widely applauded -- but what did he actually say?

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