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Today in Times Comment

• William Rees-Mogg: Today's market tip: don't buy shares in Labour
• Melanie Reid: Shannon Matthews is the new face of poverty
• Anjana Ahuja: Have you been hair long?
• Tim Hames: Mind my language? I only wish that I had, mes amis
• Stephen Pollard: Between Ken Livingstone and a clown, it's no contest
• Caitlin Moran: If you haven't got a head for admin, it's best not to stray
• Gary Ducan: Time to put a brake on the dollar's decline
• Gerard Baker: Idealists with guns or evil ideologues: the neocon myth

And from the rest of the papers...

• Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - Do the Tories know high tax is bad for growth?
• Tom Leonard: (The Telegraph) - New Yorkers love an old-fashioned sex scandal
• Philip Johnston: (The Telegraph) - This waste of our money is just madness
• Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - We talked to the IRA, so why can't we talk to al-Qaida?
• Max Hastings: (The Guardian) - The Iraq experience has laid bare the limits of raw military power
• Gary Younge: (The Guardian) - Ranking race against gender is the first step towards fundamentalism
• Nick Clegg: (The Independent) - There are so many questions over this inept intervention
• Patrick Cockburn: (The Independent) - A gross failure that ignored history and ended with a humiliating retreat
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - This unhealthy strain of left-wing McCarthyism
• Melanie Phillips: (The Daily Mail) - Why Shannon is one more victim of the folly of 'lifestyle choice'
• Alan Greenspan: (The Financial Times) - We will never have a perfect model of risk

And from around the world...

• William Kristol: (The New York Times) - Generation Obama? Perhaps not
• Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - The B word and the feds
• Robert Novak: (The Washington Post) - Don't blame her. How race divides the Democrats
• Robert Barnett: (The Wall Street Journal) - Tragedy in Tibet
• Op-Ed: (International Herald Tribune) - The war in Iraq: Five years later
• Leader: (The Times of India) - Dalai Lama has helped China tighten its grip on Tibet

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

In another article in the "Washington Post" today, Don Balz reflects on the questions raised by Robert Novak from other angles. In Wisconsin working-class white men favoured Obama but in Ohio their counterparts favoured Hillary. It may be that this is due to minorities being a small presence in Wisconsin and a considerable in Ohio and due to the latter state experiencing a major downturn in manufacturing, leading to fiercer competition for jobs, a situation which sometimes leads to racial divisions. The next big primary state is Pennsylvania, where both working-class white men and African Americans, who have preferred Obama by a huge margin, are major factors.