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By Mark Bahnisch on July 20, 2011
The tortuous negotiations over the US sovereign debt ceiling probably feature in our minds as a threat to our economic well being. Or for American politics junkies, the maneouvring could be uppermost. It’s worth putting the negotiations in a different perspective.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Imperialism, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, debt ceiling, empire, fiscal policy, ideology, Jodi Dean, John Boehner, Michael Perelman, Politics, Roman empire, Schumpeter, us congress |
By Kim on May 27, 2010
The exit of Malcolm Fraser from the Liberal party has set a few tongues wagging: Andrew Bartlett: For the last few months, I’ve found it hard to shake the idea that the Liberal Party’s overriding approach to politics and policy [...]
Posted in Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, andrew bartlett, anti-politics, Charles Richardson, Federal Election 2010, GOP, ideology, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, libertarianism, Malcolm Fraser, Mark Lilla, populism, Republican party, Tony Abbott, USA mid term election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2009
Writing in the always fabulous London Review of Books, David Bromwich has a very interesting argument on why Barack Obama has been something of a disappointment. Though Bromwich’s political commitments are fairly well known – at least to readers of [...]
Posted in Culture, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, David Bromwich, Fox news, Huffington Post, HuffPo, ideology, London Review of Books, LRB, political culture, political theory, right, US politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009
Reports that Barack Obama is prepared to concede the public option in the health care bill (with some perhaps vague hope that it might be reinserted in a conference between the House and Senate on reconciling inconsistent provisions) expose the [...]
Posted in Health, Medicine, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, death panels, Democrats, health insurance, healthcare, ideology, life chances, public option, Robert Reich, social democracy, social inequality, Sociology, structural inequality, us congress |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Rob recently discussed the passage of the Waxman-Markey emissions trading bill through the US House of Representatives, and there’s been much written about its impact both on global climate change negotiations and on the chances of the CPRS legislation in [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, Australian Greens, Climate change, climate change denialism, cprs, Emissions trading scheme, legislation, nate silver, Senate, Steve Fielding, The Greens, us congress, US House, US Senate, Wall Street Journal, waxman-markey |
By Kim on May 5, 2009
Game changing. Displays the irrelevance of the GOP. Tea bag parties inspired by Fox News and all that crew coincide with a drop in partisan identification to 25% of the electorate. Etc. Certainly, the party swap of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen [...]
Posted in Feminism, Media, Politics, Polls, USA, Women | Tagged American politics, Arlen Specter, barack obama, Clarence Thomas, Democrats, Feminism, GOP, left, Pennsylvania, progressivism, Republicans, tea bag parties, USA, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2008
More on the instant revisionism from the Republican Noise Machine in the wake of Barack Obama and the Democrats’ victory – this time scatterplot and red state blue state rich state poor state make a graphic point about the claims [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Sociology, USA | Tagged 2006 US election, 2008 USA election, American politics, barack obama, Congress, Democrats, GOP, house, noise machine, political science, psephology, Republicans, talking points |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2008
Writing in Salon, Gary Kamiya describes the near hysteria to which “movement conservatives” are reduced in confronting a likely Obama victory: …typical of the Limbaugh-inflected (or infected) movement as a whole is the apocalyptic attitude of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, History, Media, Polls, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged American history, American politics, Andrew Cockburn, arthur schlesinger, barack obama, blogosphere, Book review, cable television, Culture Wars, evangelicals, FDR, Fox news, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gary Kamiya, John McCain, nixonland, religion and politics, religious right, Richard Nixon, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on October 3, 2008
Timothy Garton Ash, writing in The Guardian, has picked it:
Posted in Economics, Levity, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, credit crisis, financial markets, GOP, House Republicans, TARP, Thaddeus McCotter, us economy, Wall Street |
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