Hope, Change and Recession, Volume II

The year 2010 proved pivotal in American politics. It began with the president signing the Affordable Care Act, giving Americans universal (or so it was claimed) access to health insurance - something proposed first by Teddy Roosevelt a century earlier. It ended with a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives thanks to the reactionary Tea Party faction and corporate money spent to stir up the rightist grass roots. Outside the US, Britain elected a coalition government of Tories and Liberal Democrats, the latter's first taste of power in decades. Greece continued to sink under the weight of its debts, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq-Nam continued to waste lives and money, and Wikileaks released thousands of largely irrelevant classified documents that still managed to upset the powers that be.

Jeff Myhre founded the Kensington Review in the autumn of 2002. He attended the University of Colorado where he double majored in history and international affairs. He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics in international relations. He is a member of both the Foreign Policy Association and the World Policy Institute.