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Lost in rural USA

  • 23 October 2008

There was a time when Republican candidates could rely on small-town America to take them to the White House. Now even that's changing

How Palin caught Obama off-guard

  • 18 September 2008
  • 42 comments

Because she is a mum who shops at Wal-Mart and disembowels moose many Americans, suspicious of intellectuals or elitism, have granted her celebrity status

It's close and getting closer

  • 21 August 2008
  • 10 comments

Don't believe what you hear: this is the most unpredictable presidential race in history, and right now John McCain has the edge

People of the book

  • 28 February 2008
  • 3 comments

John Sutherland on the US taste for religious novels and spiritual self-help manuals

Famous saints

  • 17 January 2008
  • 9 comments

John Sutherland on the religion Mitt Romney may bring to the White House

The cycle of catastrophe

  • 03 January 2008
  • 9 comments

Condoleezza Rice in effect signed Bhutto's death warrant when she phoned her in Dubai last October and said Bhutto had full US support

Lost in a muddle of greetings

  • 13 December 2007
  • 5 comments

The holiday season in the US with Thanksgiving and travels via Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas to New Year

A stay of execution?

  • 22 November 2007
  • 9 comments

Is America getting over its love affair with the death penalty? Executions are declining, and now the legality of the "lethal injection" is in question.

Rocky road to the White House

  • 08 November 2007
  • 8 comments

Conventional wisdom says next year's presidential race should be Clinton v Giuliani. But this time all bets are off

It's still the economy, stupid

  • 01 November 2007
  • 2 comments

In Washington, the big worry for presidential hopefuls is who benefits most from an election-year recession

Green heroes

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Green villains

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20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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