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Neil Macdonald

THE AMERICAS

The blueprint for Forward Base America
June 11, 2008
George W. Bush and the press secretary he deserves
May 29, 2008
Is Obama anti-Israel? Not as he sees it
May 16, 2008
Buyer's remorse? Are Democrats abandoning Obama?
May 2, 2008
Iraq: You broke it, now you own it
April 11, 2008
Indebted America keeps packing on the plastic
April 7, 2008
Religion and American politics
April 1, 2008
Surely we can't have Americans spending responsibly
March 25, 2008
U.S.: Divided we stand
March 20, 2008
Anatomy of a leak: What we know about NAFTA-gate
March 10, 2008
Going to pot: Conflicting U.S. marijuana laws a simmering volcano
February 26, 2008
The tribal call of U.S. politics
February 14, 2008
Lessons on debt from George W. Bush
January 23, 2008
Barack Obama and the illusion of change
January 14, 2008
Waiting for God in a Haitian orphanage
December 18, 2007
America's new enemy: The guys who cut the lawns
December 14, 2007
Want a cheaper car? Sorry, you're Canadian
December 7, 2007
The real 'facts on the ground' in the Middle East
November 28, 2007
The missing peace in the Middle East puzzle
November 21, 2007
The catered life of the American consumer
November 14, 2007
Might we make executions more civilized, please?
November 7, 2007
When is torture not torture?
October 23, 2007
Presidential piety
October 15, 2007
Canada's nasty reputation
October 3, 2007
Sex and politics in America's public lavatories
Sept. 25, 2007
The U.S. lending fiasco: 'Fraud on a spectacular scale'
Sept. 20, 2007
Whatever happened to 'The War on Terror'
Sept. 11, 2007
On American decency
April 16, 2007
Sanctuary, for some only, on a Florida beach
April 9, 2007
Washington's reluctance to pay the piper
March 3, 2007
Exceptions are U.S.
February 22, 2007
Baksheesh and the mystery of the shrink-wrapped billions
February 14, 2007
A wicked sense of freedom
February 6, 2007
Neil Macdonald on the anatomy of a smear job
January 23, 2007
Saying goodbye at Fort Stewart, Ga.
January 19, 2007
Handicapping the presidential hopefuls
January 5, 2007
Hailing the chief
Dec. 19, 2006
Debating the n-word in the U.S. of A.
Dec. 9, 2006
Bush's new Middle East hasn't worked out
Dec. 7, 2006
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A 19-year veteran of CBC Television News, Neil Macdonald is currently The National's Washington correspondent. Macdonald joined CBC News in 1988. He was initially assigned to Parliament Hill, where, between Southam newspapers and THE NATIONAL, he would spend a combined total of a decade covering Parliament, reporting on five federal elections, and covering six prime ministers. Macdonald then reported from the Middle East for five years. Macdonald took up his post in Washington in March 2003. He speaks English and French fluently, and Arabic conversationally.

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