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What does the Netflix documentary ‘Becoming’ reveal about Michelle Obama’s current role in a despairing society? ‘Becoming,’ a documentary directed by Nadia Hallgren, follows Michelle Obama on the tour of her eponymous 2018 memoir. After just 15 days, sales of ‘Becoming’ soared, earning the title of the best-selling book in the US for the whole […]
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On January 12, Obama found himself for the last time delivering the State of the Union Address. Throughout the speech the President talked about the economic recovery, the Affordable Care Act, climate change and America’s standing in the world. But most importantly he talked about the future of the United States, In not so many […]
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In his last state of the union address Barack Obama renewed his commitment to “use every element of national power” to support the United States’ allies, and to “mobilize the world” to in order to tackle matters of global security. Although this statement seems straightforward enough, it begs the question: who are America’s allies, exactly, […]
Continue ReadingIn recent weeks, Russia has fulfilled its promise to make use of its military hardware in order to suppress the influence of ISIL in the region. This was a measure that was undertaken on the condition that the Western powers recognised Bashar Al-Assad’s right to lead the Syrian people, and to cease arming and desist […]
Continue ReadingOxford graduates have been shown to have a leading role in the Obama administration this week, after it emerged that more of the President’s closest officials attended the University than any single publicly-funded American institution. Eleven of the most influential members of Obama’s executive branch are Oxonians, ranking the University behind only Yale, Harvard and […]
Continue Reading“Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” The National Rifle Association said that. You probably think, because I just said it too, that this is going to be a slice of pop-nihilism or a tedious rant about the pervasive cruelty of the human race. But it won’t be, I promise – stick around. Before I […]
Continue ReadingAs British Conservative Prime Minister in the nineteenth century, Benjamin Disraeli did more than anybody else to reconcile the politics of his party, composed by considerable degree of aristocrats, with the interests of working class voters. In the early twenty-first century, a confusing age of free market economics and growing economic inequality, a range of […]
Continue ReadingJohn McCain should look old. He has, after all, served two terms as a Congressman, almost four as a Senator and spent six years of his life as a POW in North Vietnam. And yet McCain speaks with the restless energy and fluid articulacy of a much younger man. In a world where Sarah Palin […]
Continue ReadingFiona Macgregor debunks the “Freudian slip” in our first Comment article of the Christmas vacation.
Continue ReadingAnna Matei questions the legitimacy of the killing of Gaddafi
Continue ReadingJames Cross explores Obama’s new found confidence but argues that the true challenge is yet to come
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