“We want our money back,” cried President Obama yesterday, “and we’re going to get it!” Announcing a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee — a tax perfectly named for an era in which banks are held responsible for a recession that was beyond their control — the president promised American taxpayers that they would get “every single […]
Year’s end is near so journalists like to look back and beyond to what’s coming especially, it seems, for the Obama Administration. The president has had his fair share of “litmus tests” already: the overanalyzed “first hundred days” in office; his first foreign visits as head of state; the new Afghan war strategy; his Nobel […]
The United States Senate sets to vote on a health-care bill over Christmas this Tuesday after what have been months of fierce political debate. As the opposition warned of “socialized medicine” and “death panels”, public support for “Obamacare” and the president himself understandably plummeted. Although America’s health care is among the most expensive yet one […]
After two decades of almost uncontested American hegemony, the sole superpower of our age is in decline. Or so we are told. The financial meltdown; the rise of China; the failed foreign policies of President Bush or Obama, depending on from which side of the aisle you approach the problem — all seem to indicate […]
Meet the men and women who will run America’s foreign policy.
Fears of Barack Obama neglecting Europe in favor of the Far East seem exaggerated.
The American president outlines his vision for a world at peace.
In the tar pit that is South Asia, there is only one stable democracy. It is also an emerging superpower.
Russia and the United States are negotiating a new arms control treaty.
Barack Obama argues India is “indispensable”.
The former vice president accuses the Democrat of projecting weakness.
Is Obama planning to escalate the war in Afghanistan or wind it down?
Even The New York Times admits the president’s credibility in the Middle East has been diminished.
