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Our view of the United States

We socialists are often given square opinions about the United States and American politics, Sigurd Evensmo wrote in 1963. A polarized US debate of the kind we see before the election in 2016 is a tradition with strong roots.
Sigurd Evensmo -

Saudi Arabia directly involved in 11. September?

The first official US designation of Saudi Arabia as possibly guilty of the 2001 attack is now available.
Ola Tunander -

The Divine Land

Hold your nose and vote for Clinton – everything is better than Trump. It seems to be the widely accepted attitude in much of the American media landscape. The truth is that Clinton is going to continue a steady course toward a very dangerous world.
pilger@nytid.no -

With Hillary, we know what we're getting – and it's not very appealing

Hillary Clinton is part of Obama's legacy. It can be problematic for her in the face of a neocritical American population that can no longer be seduced by big words and great wordings.
John Y. Jones -

Security policy choices

New important anthology on sub-communicated views. The book could well have devoted more space to a deepened theme in the Norwegian security policy debate.
MODERN TIMES -

A champagne cork does not use a tie 

"Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism," writes the late Christopher Hitchens at the end of his life's work.
Henning Næs -

The fascinating decay

Scenes from an imaginary dystopian movie: Evening. A smiling Donald Trump in front with a red tie, behind slightly stressed lackeys with weapons under his jacket, on ...
Terje Dragseth -

Is Donald Trump fascist?

He plays on the fears and moods that characterize American society. But does it make sense to call him a fascist?
Espen Hammer -

Benjamin T. Lynerd: Republican Theology

The idea of ​​the Bible ruling over people's everyday lives and social and public life still lays a governing hand over the Republican Party in the United States. 
Henning Næs -

Matthew Avery Sutton: American Apocalypse. A History of Modern Evangelicalism

The most important task of the millennialists and other radical groups was to change society according to new religious doctrines.
Henning Næs -

New poetry wars

Correspondent Letter: About the Arrogance of American Conceptual Poets in Racial Issues.
c02@nytid.no -

Manhattan's big bald – do we have him now?

Walt Whitman opened up the modern to a whole nation. Attempts to catch him once and for all become vain.
Birgitte Bjørnøy -

US and Russia games on Syria

The US has long bombed the terrorist organization ISIS's bases in Syria, but responds strongly when Russia has now begun to do the same.
MODERN TIMES -

The man of the people

Bernie Sanders is a real commodity. Still, hearing him talk about equal pay, maternity leave, health care, justice and democratic rights is a lonely experience.
MODERN TIMES -

Political task game from the Cold War cookbook

When the submarines show up in Swedish waters, the media immediately points to Moscow. The misleading campaigns appear almost like a parodic copy of the 1980 century policy.
Ola Tunander -

Top women in the US and UN?

2016 can be a brand year for women and politics. The United States will elect a president, and the United Nations will have a new secretary general. Will a woman manage to break through?
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