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This year will see the implementation of a new piece of American legislation developed by the Department of Homeland Security called the Secure Flight Program (SFP). The bill contains at least one measure that has raised the ire of many Canadian civil liberties organisations; airlines must provide the United States’ Transportation Security Administration with such personal information as a passenger’s passport and travel itinerary three days before any flight goes through American airspace. All information gathered is subsequently cross-referenced against lists of suspected (...)

The ideological struggle between republicanism and
liberal democracy has been undergoing a profound
transformation in favour of the latter ever since the days
of Andrew Jackson, the first of the so-called People’s
Choice candidates. Now that the dust of the longest
campaign in American history has settled and sealed
victory for Barack Obama, the urge of American minds
to find out more about their next president may begin to
wane. If that were to happen it would underscore one
of the fundamental characteristics
of the American political tradition:
American voters tend to leave their
curiosity on the campaign trail and in
the ballot box.