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What Barack Obama needs to do to revive his presidency
The GOP made rash promises about cuts in public spending and borrowing
The president and his party have reached a critical moment
The middle needs an ideology too. Without one, it is empty
Business leaders are feeling more cheerful lately, and with reason
Tax move was badly explained – the president’s message must be far more deliberate and consistent
Both sides are less interested in the next two years than in the elections of 2012
A carbon tax would be simple, transparent and economical in bureaucratic overhead
Clive Crook asks when – or whether – US influence will bounce back
Will the US president see a plan to cut public borrowing as political poison and hide?
Republicans and Democrats, intent on differentiating their positions, are exaggerating their distance from each other
Republican victory shows US voters undecided over how to fix their country’s most troubling problems, writes Clive Crook
If the Democrats do as badly in the midterms as seems likely, the US left will have played a big role in its own downfall
Democrats should have campaigned for health reform. Instead, they ran away
Clive Crook reports on a treacherous strategy in the Senate race
This weekend’s IMF meetings made no real progress on the issue of currency policy
Angry and even despairing, the US is about to vote for paralysis
Make no mistake, a Tea Party takeover would ruin the Republicans’ electoral prospects
Obscured by politics and special pleading, the financial regulations are still not enough
The question is how the party of Barack Obama ever came to be in this mess
The Federal Reserve must resume quantitative easing
The mosque debate needed a stronger Obama
Some are advising Barack Obama to ditch Joe Biden as vice-president and put the secretary of state on the ticket
Spending cuts alone are not enough, says Clive Crook
The US is risking a dangerous gridlock over repealing Bush’s tax cuts
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