The United States is changing, perhaps for the better, though not in politics. And they are less and less “European”, argues the American...

George Blecher 18 March 2024 Biden’s State of the Union speech seems to have proved that he could survive another four years in the White...

George Blecher February 16 2023 The faith in American unanimity that Joe Biden expressed in this year’s State of the Union speech sounded...

George Blecher 14 November 2022 The red tide never surged but the re-election of numerous brazen careerists and hardline crazies is bad...

Amidst bipartisan solidarity with Ukraine, Joe Biden’s State of the Union address focused on unity and reconciliation. But in reality,...

Pessimists fear that the Trump phenomenon has not so much derailed American democracy as revealed long-standing problems in the system...

The United States may not be the best model for a fledgling democracy looking for fresh values. America’s values have never been as pure...

The first month of the pandemic in the US The Trump administration’s failing response to COVID-19 has prompted governors and mayors to...

Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address In the midst of a predictably partisan impeachment trial, Donald Trump said not a word about the...

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In the latest of his Battle Dispatches from the electoral front, George Blecher visits the heartlands of the Trump vote in the swing...

George Blecher pinpoints exactly what it is that confuses Americans about the actions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who, prior to the bombing of...

In the light of the American presidential election in November 2004, George Blecher muses on the growing gap between those sympathising...

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