After the American Century Jeb Bush has now said what every thoughtful commentator has been saying for some time: the Republican...

After the American Century There is a certain justice to the fact that Ohio has become so important in elections, because in many ways...

After the American Century The Republican Party has long championed "State's Rights," once a code word for racial segregat...

After the American Century Energy is a central part of the announced Obama program, so it is useful to know which states (and their represen...

After the American Century In 2000 Americans did not elect the president, the Supreme Court did, by a vote of 5-4. For democracy to retain l...

After the American Century From abroad, the cost of American elections is unbelievable, appalling. In 2008 more than $1 billion will be spen...

After the American Century Senator McCain has endorsed George Bush's attack on the Democrats for "appeasement." I will return...

After the American Century The race between Clinton and Obama should not distract from the fundamental oppositions between McCain and the t...

After the American Century Tomorrow the last primaries in February take place in Wisconsin and Hawaii, with 74 and 20 delegates respectively...

After the American Century Obama has now won a string of impressive victories. Ahead for the first time in the race, however, he faces new k...

After the American Century As the candidates make their final appearances before Super Tuesday, it appears likely, judging by the polls, tha...

After the American Century There is a myth floating around in conversations I have heard in the US, that the party which decides on its cand...

More than one month ago, on December 12, I put out a blog on the failings of the Bush economy.(See the archive.) In the past week the failur...

Romney has won in Michigan, with 39% of the votes, and so he keeps his hopes alive. McCain had 30%, Huckabee only 16%. It was a convincing v...

Forty years ago I worked briefly for the Eugene McCarthy campaign in New Hampshire. That was a heady experience, because the primary became,...

Michigan is much different than Iowa or New Hampshire: it is more like the rest of the United States. In that sense, the Michigan Primary co...

The Iowa caucuses have spoken. The clear winners are Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama. The clear losers are Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney, b...

The caucuses in Iowa this week will be the subject of every political reporter in the US, and each of them wants to convince us that the Iow...