Imperialism & War > United States
Nato paralysis and US decline
17 Jun 2011
No candidate to replace the USA exists or looks likely to arise, writes James Turley
New returns to a failed old
12 Nov 2020
Yassamine Mather assesses the likely effects of a Biden presidency on a region that has suffered from repeated US acts of subversion and aggression
Pivot back to Europe
12 Nov 2020
James Harvey asks what a Biden presidency might mean for relations with Boris Johnson’s Britain
Washington wars intensify
12 Nov 2020
Will Trump be able to overrule ‘democracy’? It is far from impossible, writes Daniel Lazare
Pyrrhic victory over populism
12 Nov 2020
However clownish Donald Trump is in defeat, a far-right resurgence is on the cards, reckons Paul Demarty
Bidenomics: boom or bust?
05 Nov 2020
What will a Democrat victory mean for the US economy? Michael Roberts sees little room for optimism
At breaking point
05 Nov 2020
With Republicans and Democrats fighting over the few remaining state delegates and threats of appeals to the Supreme Court, Daniel Lazare predicts that the constitutional crisis can only get worse
Mutual collapse
29 Oct 2020
Whoever wins on November 3, writes Daniel Lazare, the downhill slide looks set to continue
No end in sight
29 Oct 2020
Will a Biden victory break the far-right wave? Paul Demarty thinks the Covid-19 economic downturn will fuel irrationality
Covid-19 set to destroy Trump?
22 Oct 2020
Daniel Lazare says the excess deaths are not only down to the president’s incompetence
More Russia wars
15 Oct 2020
The US political crisis cannot be reduced to a single party or individual, writes Daniel Lazare
World looks on
15 Oct 2020
Uncertainty about the American presidency makes for anxious times in every other country. Paul Demarty sees conflicts, breakdown and wars ahead
Nineteenth nervous breakdown
08 Oct 2020
Daniel Lazare denounces the checks and balances that make what passes for ‘democracy’ such a shambles
Break the cycle
08 Oct 2020
It is understandable that many on the left will cast a vote for Joe Biden - but it is time for a decisive break with lesser-evilism, argues Paul Demarty
Royal high court
24 Sep 2020
Why the commotion over the death of justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Daniel Lazare gives his answers
Weimarisation of politics
17 Sep 2020
Daniel Lazare sees striking parallels between pre-Hitler Germany and America today