New Orleans and Colin Powell -- the pairing of a wounded city seeking national empathy and a fallen hero seeking redemption seems to me sort of perfect.
Obama should push for measures to deal with a variety of urban issues in exchange for the financial assistance sought by auto makers, Wall Street investors, middle class homeowners and the rest of America.
For all of us who love America, such a time of jubilation and triumph must also be a time of sober focus on the work that must still be done to make our union more perfect.
Working overtime, the Inside-the-Beltway Punditocracy continues to reveal its ability to ignore reality with its claims that this is still a center-right nation, despite all evidence to the contrary.
I have seen Summers exert rare commitment both in supporting women and in addressing the issues facing economically disadvantaged communities.
Not all's lost for the Republicans: John McCain apparently took the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Algeria according to the Economist's Global Electoral College poll.
Just minutes after "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough dropped an F-bomb live on the air, MSNBC announced that it was re-launching the show to capitalize on its star's salty vocabulary.
Obama will automatically be a good president not because he's the first black man to be elected, or because he's a Democrat, but because he is an actual, evolved, progressive, intelligent American.
I am in total agreement with those who want gay marriage to be legal -- they are right. But being right isn't enough.
I'm coming off an election addiction that feels like I'm trying kick crack cocaine. How am I supposed to get through the day without constantly checking HuffPost or CNN?
What held true throughout was that the campaign coverage seemed particularly susceptible to the power of rumors -- generally defined as stories too good to be true.
The government, under Mr. Paulson's fine hand, was paying twice as much as needed to be paid when compared to the sums Warren Buffett negotiated for a similar investment in Goldman Sachs.
If the rest of the America is anything like Rock Creek Park on Sunday -- then this is a country suddenly filled with hope.
Everywhere we went, from Mumbai to Jodhpur to Delhi, people were curious and engaged in our election, and everyone knew the players. They were all rooting for Obama.
In this election, record numbers of Catholics and young Evangelicals voted in unexpected ways. Rather than induce reflection in staunch pro-life groups, they have instead reacted with denial and yet more extremism.
One of the biblical 10 commandments is not to bear false witness. Saxby Chambliss will have to answer to God someday, but on December 2nd, he needs to answer to the people of Georgia.
Americans, regardless of their sexual orientation, should be moved to name the behavior of these institutions for what it is -- and question their tax-exempt status.
As a follower of Christ, Obama should set the record straight about the injustice that has been done to true Islam in this country.
How can Summers still be considered for the top economic position in the Obama administration? This would be like appointing the arsonist who burned down the city as the new fire commissioner.
