After being cheerleaders for authoritarianism for so long, some Republicans are starting to move a little in the other direction. Kentuckian Rand Paul is their spokesman.
Category: United States
The drawn-out death of capital punishment
Forty years ago, capital punishment in America was on the way out. Now it seems to be again, but there's been a long detour in the meantime.
Well, hello sequester
Tomorrow, the US government has to start the process of cutting $85 billion in spending. The cuts may eventually be halted by a broad budget agreement, but don't hold your breath.
Who lost Gaza?
If you were trying to promote peace, fostering civil war between Fatah and Hamas was a really silly idea. But who said the Bush administration was trying to promote peace?
State of the Union (and state of the media)
This year's State of the Union address provides little evidence that Barack Obama is bent on a radical transformation of America. But it does expose a major limitation of the mainstream media.
Why Lincoln matters
Spielberg's Lincoln is a great political drama. It also has a message for the modern Republican Party: one day they will have to choose whether they are the party of Lincoln or the party of the Confederacy.
More about Obama’s liberalism
Barack Obama keeps saying he's not a big-government liberal, but the right doesn't believe him. Now a big-government liberal says the same thing.
Failure in Afghanistan?
Australia's mission in Afghanistan is a failure, as Hugh White says, but that failure derives from a much larger failure of American policy.
Obama and Senate compete on immigration reform
A bipartisan Senate group comes out with a bold plan for US immigration reform, pre-empting the president's own proposals. But can either of them overcome the Republican rhetoric of "border protection"?
Debt ceiling crisis over, for a while
Congressional Republicans give in and vote to suspend America's debt ceiling for three months. So where's the next crisis?
The World is Not Enough 