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• The two Americas

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, January 4, 2009 | 0 Comments

  
  

  

  Some years ago, in what was not a confession but a roughneck’s boast, GW Bush declared that he didn’t read the papers. But the defining moment of his presidency, to this columnist, was those seven …

• In the Obama era

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, December 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  Obama: From poetry to prose
  Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica. This is the eighth in his Sunday Stabroek series on the US presidential election.
  In American politics it …

• In the Obama era

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, December 21, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  The shoes seen around the world

  We live in extraordinary times. On 9-11,  more than one observer, watching on television the Twin Towers collapse, in surreal slow-motion, in mushrooming clouds of concrete dust, later reported being …

• In the Obama era

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, December 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  

  Obama’s inner circle
  Clearly he means to hit the deck running. (Some say he’s running already.) At any rate, within a month of his historic victory, President-Elect Obama — goaded rather than distracted by the threat …

• In the Obama era

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, November 23, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  Keeping him safe’
  Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the third in his new series on the Obama era.
  Back in June, when Obama clinched the Democratic …

• In the Obama era

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 3 Comments

  
  

  The first Leader of the World?
  Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the second in his new series on the Obama era.
  On November 4, a white …

• In the Obama era

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, November 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  A child of the islands
  Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica. Today he begins a new series on the Obama era.
  We know him in these parts; he’s a …

• The race for the White House

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  The dayworld and the nightworld
  So it’s here at last, ‘the most important election in our lifetime,’ after a gruelling campaign from which, however, few could look away for long, since moment after moment seemed filled …

• The race for the White House

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  A dramatic spike in support for Obama
  Last week, in a gun store in West Virginia, sales abruptly went through the roof. Residents had heard that ‘the Muslim’ was going to be the next president of …

• The race for the White House

  By Wayne Brown | Monday, October 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  Against ‘cockiness’
  In an election season that’s seen enough historic moments to satiate a Wagner, it’s noteworthy how suddenly and how often ‘The Narrative’ has turned. Last week’s column (written on the Friday), in which this …

• The race for the White House

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment

  
  

  

  The Bradley effect
  By the polls, it should already be over: Obama is leading McCain nationally by a ‘washout’ 6 points, and Electoral College vote tallies (EVs) suggest he’s unassailable. With 270 EVs required for victory, …

• The race for the White House

  By Wayne Brown | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments

  
  

  

   Obama pulling away
  Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now resides in Jamaica. This is the twenty-seventh in his Sunday Stabroek series on the US presidential election.
  One minute into his first response …

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