As part of the Roosevelt Institute's 10-part series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-25, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.

I'm tempted to say that the United States is...

Five former NATO generals, including the former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, John Shalikashvili, have written a "radical manifesto" which states that "the West must be ready to resort to a preemptive nuclear attack to try to halt the 'imminent' spread of nuclear and other weapons of...

The Texas Observer has published my tribute to Molly Ivins. I won't repeat it here, except for a small part. The "final Fridays" were a monthly event, held for years at Molly's house until her health made it impossible to go on.

"I used to go to the final Fridays...

In December 1970, 36 years ago this month, I replied to a very small ad in the Harvard Crimson, and in that way became the very first student volunteer for the undeclared presidential campaign of Senator George S. McGovern.

On the basis of that thin and ancient credential, I now...

"It is told that the such are the aerodynamics and wing-loading of the bumble-bee that, in principle, it cannot fly. It does, and the knowledge that it defies the august authority of Isaac Newton and Orville Wright must keep the bee in constant fear of a crack-up. One can assume,...

When Bush pressures red-state Democrats to back a right-wing extremist for the Supreme Court, that's "GOP Reaches to Other Party on Supreme Court Pick." And when Harry Reid stands up and demands that the Senate intelligence committee keep its promise to investigate the abuses that led to war in...

Steve Schlesinger's post, the comments on it, and many of the comments on my Sunday post agree that Libby must have strong grounds for belief that he will be pardoned. Schlesinger suggests that Libby may have already received direct assurances, in the form of a "secret handshake" –...

1. This is a very straightforward indictment. It charges that Scooter Libby lied to the FBI and to the grand jury about conversations with Timothy Russert, Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller. If it goes to trial, Russert's testimony will show that Libby did not learn Valerie Plame's identity from Russert....

Ben Bernanke got the nod to replace Alan Greenspan on Monday because, as the Financial Times noted, Bush needed some good news this week. It's too bad Bush hasn't seen similar troubles before; they're good for his score.

Bernanke is a capable, professional economist. He's also the first modern academic...

When Sherman marched through Georgia he discovered the Confederacy was hollow: nothing stood in his way. And so it was with Katrina at New Orleans. There was no plan for plugging leaks in the levees, no plan to evacuate the poor from the city before the storm hit, no mobilization...