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Long-form essays from Standpoint on politics, foreign affairs, religion, education and economics. Arguments made at length by writers who mean them.

Is the Obama Presidency Failing?

The administration is in deep trouble on healthcare and national security “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them,” President Barack Obama declared in his inaugural

March 19, 2010

Features·International·North America·Obama·US Politics

All to Play For as Cameron Wobbles

For two years, a Conservative victory looked to be a done deal — then the polls narrowed. Are the voters having second thoughts?

March 19, 2010

Features·Politics

If England Had Remained Catholic

Did the Reformation rescue us from theocracy? Or are we poorer without pilgrims, saints and feasts?

March 19, 2010

Faith·Features·The Catholic Church

ONLINE ONLY: Peter Andre? Blame Petrarch

In a Valentine's special, Nichi Hodgson examines the inane lyrical legacy of the Renaissance sonneteer

February 11, 2010

Features

ONLINE ONLY: A Green Light for the Opposition

As the anniversary of the Iranian revolution approaches, the opposition movement is gaining momentum

February 2, 2010

Features·Iran

An End to the Myth of the Tortured Soul

What was Van Gogh really like? A new exhibition brings us closer to the truth In a career lasting no more than ten years, Vincent Van Gogh produced about 900 paintings and 1,100

December 14, 2009

Art·Features·Mental Illness

A Bold Voice at a Miserable Time

A new life of Adam von Trott, executed for plotting to kill Hitler, rescues his integrity

November 19, 2009

Features·Germany·History

A Cry for Freedom

The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the ultimate display of “people power”, but did German reunification work? It was not about bananas — which were unavailable in East Germany — or

October 22, 2009

Features·Germany