George W. Bush

Opinion

A nuclear dream come true

The 2005 India-US nuclear deal marked the end of India's nuclear apartheid

3 min read12 Jul 2015
Opinion

Déjà View | Mind games

We believe our political views to be perfect and logical, yet a large part of it is about the brain functioning emotionally

4 min read13 Feb 2015
News

CIA interrogation methods detailed in new US report

CIA used waterboarding and other harsh methods to interrogate terrorism suspects, says a US Senate report

3 min read10 Dec 2014
News

US environment agency may tighten long-awaited ozone standards

Health groups say the new standards can lower the risk of early deaths, asthma and other respiratory illnesses from the pollutant

1 min read26 Nov 2014
News

Guantanamo closure by 2016 ‘unrealistic': commander

Camp commander colonel David Heath says there is little chance of the facility being closed in the next two years

3 min read8 Nov 2014
News

Barack Obama's Africa policy to focus on investment over aid

The first black US president will host the US-Africa Leadership Summit, where his administration expects more than $900 million in deals

6 min read3 Aug 2014
Opinion

One of the few reliable weapons at moments when events spin out of control is to try to work out who's to blame

4 min read13 Jun 2014
Opinion

Narendra Modi is no Ronald Reagan

There are many similarities, David B. Cohen insists, between the personalities and political reception of the two immensely charismatic leaders

6 min read24 Apr 2014
News

NSA's spying dragnet dates to al-Qaeda hunt

George W. Bush renewed surveillance programme for collection of telephone-call records every 30-60 days beginning 4 October 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks

2 min read23 Dec 2013
News

Ex-President George W. Bush has stent for blocked heart artery

Doctors discovered the blockage on Monday during Bush’s annual physical at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas

2 min read6 Aug 2013