World Affairs: North America

Michael Moore: Q+A

The documentary-maker on capitalism, Obama and why Britain is about to get punished

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The great gamble

As the Karzai government succumbs to pressure to rerun elections and ever more coalition troops die, it seems increasingly as if we are fighting a futile war in Afghanistan. Making a deal with the Taliban may be the only way to make a clean exit

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Metropolis now

Before the financial crisis, New York and London walked hand in hand as “the two greatest cities in the world”. But now Mayors Boris Johnson and Michael Bloomberg are rivals, each attempting to remake and rebuild his city in different ways. Who will win?

An end to US exceptionalism?

Is the US ready to reinterpret American identity for a multipolar world?

What if... Carter had killed the rabbit

War is peace, ignorance is strength

Obama, the man of peace, is planning another war to add to his impressive record

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Why Obama? Deconstructing the Nobel Peace Prize nomination

The choice of the US President completes the counter-Bush trilogy: Carter, Gore and now Obama

Anarchists get the Twitter bug

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Change we can’t believe in

Barack Obama promised a sharp break from the Bush era, yet he seems to have stepped into the shoes of his disgraced predecessor. As the anniversary of his election approaches, Mehdi Hasan investigates what went wrong

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The 50 people who matter today: 1-10

The top 10 on our diverse list of individuals, couples and families changing the world, for good and ill. Including the Murdochs, Marwan Barghouti, Vladimir Putin and Eric Schmidt

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