Political Opinion

Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider, who died early on Saturday in a car crash aged 58, created a highly successful political style, mixing populism with xenophobia that stirred up his country’s traditional consensus politics and became a model for other rightwing groups in Europe.  

AUSTIN About 400 seniors gathered at the Travis County Expo Center to show off some dance moves this weekend. It was two days of non-stop line dancing, except for the moments when they stopped to talk to us about politics.  

Much has been made of the "just-a-heartbeat-away" theory of politics, which is heavy with theoretical questions about what would happen should a leader succumb to illness or misfortune in office. There has been plenty of partisan exploitation in the press, studded with worst-case scenarios...  

PASIR PUTEH, Oct 12 (Bernama) -- The Kelantan Islamic Religious Affairs Council (MAIK) has launched a probe into complaints that the Kampung Permatang Sungkai mosque here is being used for politics to the point of creating disunity among its congregation.  

Umno supreme council member Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal today affirmed that in politics he could not depend on getting 100 per cent support from party delegates to contest for a party vice-president post.  

Joerg Haider, who catapulted his party into a powerful force in Austrian politics with a mix of folksy aphorisms, in-your-face attacks on rivals and provocative praise of the Nazi era, died Saturday in a car accident. He was 58.  

We gathered a group of people from diverse faith backgrounds last week to discuss the role religion plays in politics and the presidential election. Here are some highlights from the conversation.  

Economic uncertainty is on the rise, and so is office gossip. Office workers, perhaps fearful of their jobs and worried about their companies' futures, are playing office politics and gossiping more than they were five years ago, according to a recent poll. In fact, 55 percent of those surveyed...  

Barack Obama has rebuked rival John McCain for preaching a politics of "anger and division" amid the worst economic crisis since the 1930s Great Depression.  

The Choices and Challenges project at Virginia Tech has launched an interactive website (www.choicesandchallenges.sts.vt.edu/2008/index.php) that includes resources on the topic of IT and politics, and opportunities for discussion. And five days before the U.S. Presidential election, a public...  

It's D.C. in October in an election year, which means you're going to hear a lot about politics. That's not necessarily a bad thing, there are probably a lot of educated conversations going on around town from folks not involved at all in the horse race. And then there's this guy, who apparently...  

The MetroWest Daily News is looking for workplace anecdotes about election politics in the office. Have new friendships been formed or tension created by you and your co-workers' love and/or disdain for either presidential candidate? How do you cope as the lone Democrat in an office of...  

My contribution in this paper is intended to define politics not just as the art of the possible with the means available by those who aspire to power but also as an endeavour which is informed by a well thought out decisions, whether these are taken individually (by office holders) or...  

The role of religion in government has been a matter of debate since before the birth of our republic, but less attention has been paid to the role of religion in campaign politics. Should the religious views of a candidate or a candidate?s pastor be taken into consideration and, moreover, should...  

Politics has long made for strange bedfellows, particularly between rock stars and politicians, but the combination seems to work for Barack Obama.