Recent Editor's Picks
We believe that President Barack Obama has brought back the dignity to the office. He has been thoughtful and analytical after the reckless years of his predecessor. He was able to avoid a depression that he was about to inherit, he has provided all Americans with healthcare, he has been much more cost-effective in fighting terrorism than his predecessor was.
FT: "Four years on from the financial crisis, with extreme inequality an affront to the American dream, there remains a need for intelligent, reformist governance. Mr Obama, his presidency defined by the economic crisis, looks the better choice."
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Steve Coll's Private Empire: ExxonMobile and American Power wins the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg endorses President Barack Obama. Below an extract from his endorsement:
"....Mitt Romney is George W. Bush reheated......Americans have a choice between a man with modest ambitions and someone determined to double up on the fiscal and financial policies of the pre-crisis era. Mr Romney, like the Bourbons, has learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. What would be the consequences of such a repetition? The world may be about to find out."
The humourist Andy Borowitz writes in his blog on the New Yorker that weather forces Romney to shift lying to other states. He continues:
"An emergency situation like this really tests how good your ground game is," said campaign manager Matt Rhoades. "Fortunately, we have liars in all fifty states."
The Los Angeles times writes that the Romney campaing:
"The President has achieved a run of ambitious legislative, social, and foreign-policy successes that relieved a large measure of the human suffering and national shame inflicted by the Bush Administration. Obama has renewed the honor of the office he holds," the editors of the New Yorker magazine write.
They finish their artical with the following conclussion:
Jonathan Cohn writes in The New Republic about the differences between the American "blue states", i.e. Democratic, and the "red states", i.e. Republican.
Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic. Below a few extracts from his most interesting article:
Facts & Arts has launched its music streaming service. The music will consist of new releases of classical music albums. The service allows the visitor to listen to an album during 24 hours for a price of $0.99.