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With Arab opinion like this, Obama needs media advice

Jonathan Steele: The rhetoric of his Cairo speech has soured: the president can only move the debate on with a sea-change in US attitudes

As Cameron gets radical, the left dozes on planet 1945

Simon Jenkins: The coalition is seeking to redefine the individual's relationship with the state. From Labour we get not a peep

A tale of two tyrannies

Tanya Gold: It is entirely apt that Naomi Campbell and co are at The Hague. Fashion should be put in the dock

Beware the Maxwell standard

Lynsey Hanley: The idea of a billionaire's paper campaigning for the poor makes me yearn for the Daily Mirror of my youth

Robots don't feel. Why pretend they do?

Andrew Brown: Robots might some day have feelings. But we know today's do not. So why should anyone talk as if they do?

Credit agencies are no way to catch benefit cheats

Tony Levene: Using credit agencies on a 'bounty basis' offers an incentive to trap claimants using potentially inaccurate or incomplete data

The real scandal of Michelle Obama's Spanish vacation

Dan Kennedy: It's depressing to watch the so-called liberal media take the bait of rightwing hysteria about the first lady's holiday

Cardinal O'Brien's 'culture of vengeance'

Brian Flynn: The Scottish Catholic leader slanders US Lockerbie relatives. We do not lack compassion, but we do care about justice

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Politics. And other stuff
Michael Tomasky on America
Free to believe
Andrew Brown on belief and unbelief

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  3. 2. Huffington Post: Have Republicans lost the White House for a generation?
    Dylan Loewe explains how the American right's newly hardline stance on immigration may lose them the increasingly important Hispanic vote
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    Micah White argues that online campaigns boasting thousands of email-subscribed "supporters" are far less effective than those of an analogue persuasion
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