American Politics
- Mitt Romney, bully
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(American Politics, Mitt Romney, New Yorker) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-11 15:10 - 0 comments
- What Gina Wants
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been a commercial and political enterprise. Often the guest would be Lang’s great ideological soul ... it would be Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born American scientist known as “the father of the hydrogen ... influence grew and she sought political friends of her own, Gina not only served as the ‘hostie’ but also ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: The Shock Jock Rule of Campbell Newman
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with the latest barbarian to take the helm of Queensland. A quote Kevin Spacey cited in defence of American arts ... politic and debauch civil society while bashing a few poets into the bargain. Newman was probably ... to it as a branding exercise. As a very rough guide to the electoral politics of the cut, a News Limited poll found ...
The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What will Obama do?
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(American Politics, Barack Obama, Obama, New Yorker) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-18 15:00 - 0 comments
- 3 ways Rick Santorum hit Mitt Romney's chance at the presidency
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3 ways Rick Santorum hit Mitt Romney's chance at the presidency " Santorum's three-month charge has left a deep impression on the race, and will likely make Mitt Romney's road to N ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-11 14:46 - 0 comments
- Iran's spymaster
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Iran's spymaster "American and British intelligence officials draw comparisons between the real-life Iranian general and the fictional ... (Iran, Iran politics, Wall Street Journal) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-05 14:36 - 0 comments
- The roots of the court's Obamacare panic
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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-30 14:43 - 0 comments
- A quantum theory of Mitt Romney
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General item (American Politics, Mitt Romney, New York Times) ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-02 14:51 - 0 comments
- One Race is Over. Another Begins
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One Race is Over. Another Begins "With no rousing alternative to Romney, apathy was not enough to defeat him. Even as he approaches the finish line, excitement doesn't seem to be building. ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-04 15:29 - 0 comments
- A Romantic B&B
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red-light district, creating a hint of the Deep South – a great lure to American GIs far from home. Inside ... a clutter of Americana (a Native American chief’s headdress, a fake grizzly, a Fonz-era jukebox). The lot ...
The Monthly - Paul Ham - 2012-05-10 16:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Rockin’ Rupert
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the American prison population by adding “Much of it duets terrible state laws”. He has had to clean up ... that the goofy-looking conservative Rick Santorum can “lead moral regeneration and restoration of original American ... these elected representatives or – since politics is for him a blood sport – goads them to combat. Although he ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Once Were Warriors
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with his “half-baked neo-socialism”, which pandered to the old-fashioned “politics of envy”. Few ... fabric of the US courtesy of their assault on the traditional aspirational values of ordinary Americans ... assiduously applied such rhetoric to Australian politics. “There is a frustrated mainstream … which sees ...
The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- One Morning with Malcolm
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Turnbull Speaks on Life in Politics ... of climate change action might still be on the US political agenda. Or, to move from the global to the local, ... and the political culture of populist conservatism that overtook Australia during the Howard years might by now ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Autumn of the Patriarch
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meeting with the media was a small and very matter-of-fact event, in a small but not fragile body politic ... with an antique coach and the American icons on the back wall, also lacks a wall to cut it off from the courtyard ... of 1974. He was not really a political person, but he was part of that early ferment, and being in Darwin ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Ferry into the Past
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for the American colonies was lost in 1781. While Blue did not state his place of birth, his daughter Susannah, who ...
The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Romney wins Illinois decisively
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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-21 14:46 - 0 comments
- Romney wins Arizona, Michigan primaries
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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-29 13:49 - 0 comments
- Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
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themselves,” as American scholar Shelly R. Scott puts it. The more we sentimentalise animals on the one ... on the live export of cattle to Indonesia. The veteran political writer Michelle Grattan described ... on the roof rack; the many temporary export bans; the thirty-odd years of intermittent political scrambling ...
The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Barbie wife: The transformation of the political spouse
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(American Politics, The Age) ... Barbie wife: The transformation of the political spouse "While a trophy wife is admired by her man, the admiring eyes ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-06 14:26 - 0 comments
- It all Comes Down to Ohio
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It all Comes Down to Ohio "Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney appear headed toward an extremely close finish in the race for the ultimate Super Tuesday battleground, Ohio, after the two candidates divi ...
The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-07 14:26 - 0 comments
- The lost party
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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-27 14:18 - 0 comments
- Love thy Leader
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The Americans, despite their more openly hostile political culture, treat their ex-leaders with sufficient ... George Megalogenis A curious feature of our political debate is the way ... prime ministers – even those who head minority governments – have more legislative power than American ...
The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2012-03-07 15:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
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when a would-be US president, Mitt Romney, is wealthier than 99.9975% of his fellow Americans ... of the defining issues of my political life. It was the theme of a book that I wrote back in 2005, Postcode , ... into politics. It remains today the horizon towards which we always march. It was also the abiding purpose ...
The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments
- The Reluctant Son
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to be sure – American upbringing,” observes Michael Wolff. During his gap year, Lachlan spent three ... account of that period reveals that Rupert’s key American executives, Fox News boss Roger Ailes ... in the hands of just a few individuals has vexed governments of both political persuasions for decades. ...
The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Santorum surge: How seriously should we take it?
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The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-15 13:31 - 0 comments
