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War on Words
2/4/2009 12:00:00 AMIn another effort to undo the legacy of George W. Bush's presidency, the Obama administration is searching for alternatives to the term "war on terror."
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POINT OF VIEW
How Big Government Never Left
11/15/2008 12:00:00 AMRolling back the state has been the dominant idea in western political debate for 30 years. The "big idea" of the Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher revolution was that less state equals more freedom. But in the midst of the financial crisis, it now seems that big government is back—and that citizens are glad to have it. The most telling finding from the election-night exit polls is that for the first time since pollsters began asking the question in 1994, a majority of Americans believe that government should do more to solve problems, not less.
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HOW HE DID IT 2008
Obama’s Third Way
11/5/2008 12:00:00 AMBarack Obama has won more than a presidential victory. He has gained a chance to realign the national landscape and to create a new governing ideology for the West. Since the end of the cold war, two great political trends have coursed through the Western democracies. The first —led by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in the early 1990s—was the left's steady progress toward greater comfort with free markets and traditional values, in order to appeal to mainstream voters. The second was the ideological decline of conservatism, a movement now riddled with contradictions and corruption, as personified by George W. Bush's big-government, Wilsonian agenda. These two trends have intersected in 2008.
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INTERVIEW
Britain’s Comeback Kid
10/25/2008 12:00:00 AMHis star was thought to be waning, but ever since the global financial crisis broke, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has looked like a true leader. He passed a bank-bailout bill that set the example for Europe and the United States, which more or less followed his lead. Now his insistence on creating a new global financial framework has been taken up by other world leaders. President Bush will convene a meeting of G20 nations in Washington on Nov. 15 to discuss just such a plan. Last week Brown reflected on the crisis with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth. Excerpts:
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FAST CHAT
A Steely U.S. Secretary
10/18/2008 12:00:00 AMBritish actress Thandie Newton tackles the role of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Oliver Stone's new semifictional biopic of U.S. President George W. Bush. Newton spoke with NEWSWEEK's Sophie Grove about the controversial role:
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