BBC NEWS | The Reporters

Morphing America?

Justin Webb
5 Nov 08, 08:42 PM GMT

I have been talking to Francis Fukuyama - he of "end of history" fame - about whether or not America is really morphing into Europe...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. If you're reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content.

Election analysis

Justin Webb
5 Nov 08, 03:50 PM GMT

Even in the blogging era you don't really believe it till you see it in the papers...

Spot-on analysis in a venerable newspaper as well.

Stretching America

Justin Webb
5 Nov 08, 07:07 AM GMT

The Obama years will stretch America. The nation will come to think differently about itself. But Barack Obama is too focused and too, well, too midwestern in outlook, to really stick it to the right. He will govern from the centre and relish the battles with his own party that that will entail. He will do it because he will feel it to be right but also, of course, because that is the way to be re-elected in 2012, overcoming the fearsome challenge of Sarah Palin. This is an early stab at the immediate future though I thought (looking at the names for Sec of State et al) that there were to be no re-treads? John D's list looks a little too stodgy, I suspect...

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

Hello, I'm Justin Webb and I'm the BBC's North America editor.