United States

The risk of a government shutdown

• Time to stop play-acting and spit out the tea
  

  The Republicans are not being serious about the deficit (34)

• • • Congress vanishes into an infinitely recursive loop
    • (20)
  • • America's next top budget compromisers
    • (60)

America and Libya

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  Togetherness in Libya

  Barack Obama’s awfully big change in America’s use of force (10)

• • • The birth of an Obama doctrine
    • (104)
  • • The complicated nature of America's intervention
    • (31)
  • • The colonel is not beaten yet
    • (7)
  • • In Libya, a new order is gradually emerging

The civil war's legacy

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  Finally passing

  Assessing America’s bloodiest war, 150 years later (6)

• • • Is the white Southern Democrat extinct, endangered or just hibernating?
    • (40)
  • • A selection of photographs and music from the time of the war

The census

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  Minority report

  White America’s collapsing birth rate is changing the face of the country (5)

• • • Now it is the turn of America’s blacks to leave for the suburbs
    • (2)

Housing in America

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  On a losing streak

  The broad effects of America's worst property crash (39)

• • • Prices are falling, but a rebound is in sight
    • (12)
  • • To safeguard the system, limit debt
    • (12)
  • • Economist asks: Will US home prices rise or fall in 2011?
    • (5)

Obama's energy policy

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  Reheated proposals

  Barack Obama lays out some old plans for cleaner and more independent energy (42)

• • • Japan's crisis will slow the growth of nuclear power
    • (84)

The Republicans

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  Is America ready for Romney?

  The trends of public opinion bode ill for the president. Is there a Republican capable of capitalising? (37)

• • • Tim Pawlenty backtracks on climate change
    • Democracy in America
    • (31)
  • • Good Newt v Bad Newt
    • (29)
  • • Bring forth a pragmatic Republican. He might win
    • (29)
  • • Can a Mormon win the White House?
    • (105)

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