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Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…

In a unique experiment in democratic transparency, Barack Obama – a BlackBerry owner, and the first American president to use email while in office – has agreed to copy G2 in on his otherwise highly confidential electronic communications. Each week, we present a selection from recent daysTo: George W Bush Subject: Re: Fantastic performance! Well [...]

Pentagon says Patriot shield will deter strike on American allies in the GulfTension between the US and Iran heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran.The US is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries – Qatar, United [...]

Proposal to counter Iran may come to be seen as a gamble with peace, rendering the war president seeks to avoid more likelyPouring billions of dollars’ worth of the latest hi-tech military hardware into the volatile heart of the Middle East looks at first glance like an act of extreme recklessness. Like George Bush before [...]

Although Zinn was a hero of the left, he did not do enough to challenge the legitimacy of capitalist AmericaThe American left has had little to celebrate over the past three decades. Conservatives became the dominant force in US politics, the phantom hope of state socialism vanished almost overnight, and those progressive movements which survived [...]

Barack Obama will also propose a tripling of government funding for new nuclear reactors to more than $54bnBarack Obama used his presidential authority to help advance his climate change agenda today, announcing that the US federal government and agencies would cut their giant carbon footprints by 28% by 2020.The announcement was held up by administration [...]

State department climate change envoy Todd Stern writes to UN to formally promise to reduce emissions by 17% by 2020America embraced the accord reached at the Copenhagen climate summit yesterday by formally giving notice to the United Nations that it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The announcement was the second piece of encouraging news from the [...]

Census becoming focal point for US anti-government movement, which says it mistrusts use of private dataConservative opponents of the Obama administration are urging supporters to resist the upcoming US census, saying it asks too many questions and reflects increasing government intrusion into private matters.The census, held every 10 years since 1790, is becoming a focal [...]

A television host’s five little words in reference to Barack Obama — “I forgot he was black” — have exposed a contradiction in the idea of a post-racial nation.
 

US president and Amtrak devotee Joe Biden take jobs pledge to FloridaBarack Obama announced $8bn in grants to upgrade America’s slow and aged passenger rail network today, taking his state of the union promise to build America’s clean energy economy to Florida.Obama was touting his efforts to create jobs by investing in infrastructure and less [...]