Does President-Elect Obama represent the change we need? His mainstream appointments -- largely veterans of the Clinton administration -- have sparked a clamor from worried supporters. But in one of the critical challenges facing the country -- how to get the country out of what will be the worst downturn since the Great Depression -- Obama is calling for dramatic and long overdue change. While President Bush continues to oppose any major plan for Main Street, Obama has been calling for a substantial recovery program, focused on public investments rather than tax cuts.
Positioning Jindal to run in 2012, based on the notion that he could somehow become a Republican Obama, is more of a gimmick than a serious effort to move the party into the post-Bush era.
Congress must save the industrial infrastructure that these companies control and the jobs they create. And it must save the world from the internal combustion engine. And it must do all this by not giving them $34 billion.
I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.
Both bankruptcy and bailout offer the same dismal prospect: a zombie-like return of the same poor thinking that made Detroit the East Germany of American business.
A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama's proposed talks with Iran to fail -- and they're already proposing an escalating set of measures instead.
If there is a grand arc to Obama's appointments strategy, it seems aimed at providing the appearance of continuity on the part of a leader who still promises to be very different.
A song for the invisible hand of the market, currently slapping America silly. A simple song about our lost faith in the invisible hand of the markets.
I am confident that Mr. Obama will work to end the ban on lesbians and gays serving openly in the military. Why am I so confident? Because Barack Obama said so.
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article critical of some comments that I made on CNN and at the same time made some derogatory and personal attacks.
GM now has a market capitalization of $2.8 billion. Ford's is $6.1 billion. These are relatively small amounts compared to the $25 billion the companies are requesting -- and they are likely to come back for more.
George H.W. Bush became famous for attending funerals on Ronald Reagan's behalf. Does Obama have something more planned for Biden?
The thick, gaudy bubble of privilege has so distorted the view of some, that no amount of control, comfort, security, and entitlement seems enough. My wish for them, in the New Year, is a heaping helping of real-life anxiety.
For months we've been inundated with the raw data of the economic meltdown: unemployment figures, foreclosure numbers, massive bailout stats. Here at HuffPost we want to help put a human face on the suffering.
While pundits and bloggers continue their Clinton obsession, right wing strategists are targeting Governor Janet Napolitano for confirmation fun and games.
Risk, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. A "risk free" portfolio can be the riskiest investment you will ever make.
Obama's familiar-looking team of national security fixer-uppers does not inspire confidence. Nor do his vague answers to detailed questions on specific policies.
It makes more sense for Congress to tell ExxonMobil, ARCO, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and their fellow travelers that they should lend the automobile industry $25 billion
The progressive movement had what we want to believe was a seismic win on election day -- but it's really only seismic if it continues to reverberate.
