The Guardian:
Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them togetherWhen I began visiting Rwanda, in 1995, a year after the genocide, the country was still (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing rhetoric of his enemies. A m (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
One of President Obama's top advisers said the goal of the administration in the 2010 midterm election is to re-energize independent voters who backed Obama during the 2008 presidential election. Â . (Read More)
The Guardian:
Looking back at Obama's election one year on, it's clear that the campaign controveries obscured the issues that really matterBy The People, a new documentary about Barack Obama's campaign for president now airing on HBO, gets up close. We see Obama sitting on a curb, alone, moments before taking the podium at an event. We (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Former minister Kim Howells calls for pullout from Afghanistan and more domestic spyingA major fissure has opened up in Labour's support for the Afghan war with a call from the former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells for the phased withdrawal of British troops from Helmand.Howells, who is now Gordon Brown's intelligence (Read More)
The Guardian:
Republicans had their best election night for years. But their civil war over a safe seat let the Democrats dodge a bulletWhat do these strange, odd-year elections – suddenly so feverishly important, now that America's excitable right-wingers from Rush Limbaugh on down demand that they be – tell us about Barack Obama's poli (Read More)
The Guardian:
Big election victories by a slate of conservative Republicans in Virginia shows the party is turning back the Democratic tideVirginia, according to the old bumper sticker slogan, is for lovers. In yesterday's off-year elections, Virginians were lovers of Republicans. GOP candidates swept all three statewide offices and made (Read More)
Fox News:
Election of Republican governors in Va., N.J. could mean trouble for Obama, who carried both states in 2008• YOU DECIDE: Is Nov. 3 a Referendum on Obama?• White House Sees 'Ramifications' for 2010 in N.Y. Race• N.J. Hospital Denies ACORN Workers Collected Ballots• LIVESHOTS: Absentee Ballot Abuse? | VIDEO. (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey closely fought • New York and California pick congressmenPresident Barack Obama's political clout was on the line today as Virginia and New Jersey chose governors in contests that could serve as warning signs for Democrats about the public's mood heading into an important mid (Read More)
The Guardian:
Obama's victory speech at Grant Park may seem a distant mirage. But for all the failings, the president can point to real progressOn that improbably warm night exactly one year ago, the crowd in Grant Park, Chicago, cheered itself hoarse as Barack Obama, the newly minted president-elect of the United States, stepped on sta (Read More)
The Guardian:
Former minister Kim Howells calls for pullout and more domestic spyingA major fissure opens up in Labour's support for the Afghan war with a call from the former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells for the phased withdrawal of British troops from Helmand.Howells, who is now Gordon Brown's intelligence and security watchdog (Read More)
The Guardian:
Edward Norton talks about the new film By the People: The Election of Barack Obama documenting the 2008 US presidential election. (Read More)