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Winning the Veepstakes

'Nothing could underline Romney's message on the centrality of the economy to this election better than the appointment of Rob Portman to his ticket'

June 26, 2012

Dispatches

The Wagner Family Soap Opera Rolls On

'The Wagner family has never let Bayreuth and the festival out if its grip — today it is still run by two of Richard's great-granddaughters'

June 26, 2012

Dispatches·Germany·Music

Still Not Equal

'A friend asked her editor for a pay rise. Surely, he replied, her husband was earning enough to support them both'

June 26, 2012

European Eye·Gender

Is Boris the Man to Succeed Cameron?

To some in the Conservative Party he is a scheming charlatan with no policies. To others his star power could be worth harnessing

June 26, 2012

Features·UK Politics

Self-Appointed Messiahs of the Nanny State

A new breed of libertarian paternalists who claim to know what's best for us are nudging us down the road to serfdom

June 26, 2012

Economy·Features·Philosophy

A Democratic Beacon in the Fractious Arab World

Nearly a decade after the US overthrew Saddam Hussein, Iraq is emerging as an increasingly free and prosperous society

June 26, 2012

Features·Iraq

Freedom of the Press Now Concerns Us All

The censorious among us can seize on vast amounts of online evidence and use it to ruin the lives of citizens at random

June 26, 2012

Features·Human Rights·Media·Politics

Talking Tactics

'With a $15 trillion national debt continuing to grow, it's understandable if Obama prefers to shift the focus onto those social and personal areas where he regularly beats Romney'

May 29, 2012

Dispatches·US Politics

A Man for our Season

Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is a dazzling exercise in literary ventriloquism, but it panders too much to modern sensibilities, painting Thomas Cromwell as a secular saint

May 29, 2012

Books·Literature

From Art as Life to Blood and Soil

'While between 1895 and 1945 the German debate over how to be modern resulted in a global killing-field, a group of artists in Worpswede set down their visions for a 20th century

May 29, 2012

Art·Dispatches·Germany

Interregnum Interrogator

God's Instruments is a coherent, elegant collection of essays that confirms Blair Worden as one of our finest historians of the English civil wars

May 29, 2012

Books·History

No Life Was Untouched

Christy Campbell's focused, meticulous account of the V-weapon campaign of 1944 provides a neat counterpoint to the magisterial grand narrative of Antony Beevor's The Second World War

May 29, 2012

Books·History

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