And the president could learn plenty from the fate of a complacent Richard Nixon.
- Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, UCL
Thanks to the US’s polarised politics, presidents beloved abroad are controversial at home.
Sanity has prevailed in the US, at least temporarily. For now, the threat of America’s first ever debt default has receded. But we may be back in the same territory in early 2014 as the US treasury is…
Tensions in the Middle East rose considerably this morning when Russian radar detected the launch of two rockets in the eastern Mediterranean, triggering alerts across the region. After initially claiming…
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