Opinion: The election has made the US more foreign
By Michael Goldfarb
GlobalPost
NEW YORK — Sitting in a Starbucks in Harlem at the corner of Lenox and 125th Street, Wi-Fi'd up. Twenty-five years ago this month I left this city for London. Twenty-five years ago this month I would not have been sitting in any coffee shop at the crossroads of Black America.
A quarter of a century is a long time, things should change and it's nice to see that up here in Harlem things have changed more or less for the better. For me, years as a foreign correspondent have made America a foreign country to me. This morning after election day it is probably foreign to a lot of others in the United States and around the world.
In Britain, even the conservative press has found the Tea Party and Republican Party difficult to understand. They happily bash President Barack Obama on their opinion pages while trying to understand how the political discourse in this time of crisis could be so puerile. The days when British conservatives and American conservatives walked the same walk and talked the same talk are long gone.
Today's Conservative Party-led coalition government in the United Kingdom would not waste a moment campaigning against the idea of man-made climate change — indeed it campaigned last spring on how to grow the economy by funding solutions to the problem.
(More here.)
GlobalPost
NEW YORK — Sitting in a Starbucks in Harlem at the corner of Lenox and 125th Street, Wi-Fi'd up. Twenty-five years ago this month I left this city for London. Twenty-five years ago this month I would not have been sitting in any coffee shop at the crossroads of Black America.
A quarter of a century is a long time, things should change and it's nice to see that up here in Harlem things have changed more or less for the better. For me, years as a foreign correspondent have made America a foreign country to me. This morning after election day it is probably foreign to a lot of others in the United States and around the world.
In Britain, even the conservative press has found the Tea Party and Republican Party difficult to understand. They happily bash President Barack Obama on their opinion pages while trying to understand how the political discourse in this time of crisis could be so puerile. The days when British conservatives and American conservatives walked the same walk and talked the same talk are long gone.
Today's Conservative Party-led coalition government in the United Kingdom would not waste a moment campaigning against the idea of man-made climate change — indeed it campaigned last spring on how to grow the economy by funding solutions to the problem.
(More here.)
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