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Is He White Enough to Win?new

How will the race card play in the high-stakes presidential poker game now doubling down, when hidden decisions taken in darkness centre on the real possibility of a real “first black president”?

NOW Magazine | Rory O'Connor | 01-31-2008 | Commentary

Obama's Iraq Gapnew

Dems rush rhetoric about ending the war, but the bleeding continues.

NOW Magazine | Tom Hayden | 01-18-2008 | Commentary

Tags: war in iraq, Iraq, 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Vietnam

He's for hope -- but exactly what does that translate into? But beyond that, the fact is a "fresh face" -- one of the more overused descriptors applied to Obama -- is actually quite useless when it comes to American power politics.

NOW Magazine | Susan G. Cole | 01-11-2008 | Commentary

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama

Let's Pull it Togethernew

A center-left-green pact is the only way we can rid the world of Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper.

NOW Magazine | Alice Klein | 12-21-2007 | Commentary

Let's Ban the Biblenew

Recently the Catholic School Board in Halton Region pulled The Golden Compass, a children's novel by Philip Pullman, from the shelves. Supposedly not because of anything in it, but because the man who wrote it is an avowed and proud atheist.

NOW Magazine | Drew Hayden Taylor | 11-30-2007 | Commentary

The IAEA's Nuclear Make-Believenew

The world disregarded nuke agency's word on Iraq. Is scenario now part of Iran endgame?

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 11-26-2007 | Commentary

Tags: war in iraq, Iraq, Iran

Does the Bush Administration Have Cold Feet on Iran?new

We are told that Iran is supporting the anti-American insurgency in Iraq -- if they're that keen to attack Iran, why don't Bush and Cheney use the fact that Iranian artillery shells are falling on Kurdish villages in northern Iraq almost every day as a pretext for the attack?

NOW Magazine | Gwynne Dyer | 11-05-2007 | Commentary

Tags: Iran