Abandoning EFCA Is Obama's Political Suicide: Lessons From Three Presidents on Workers' Rights

Mike Elk, 01.07.2010

Campaign for America's Future

Whatever happened to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? Is it dead? I remember sitting in a meeting last May with Senate staff who said that after A...

Let the Sun Shine in on Final Health Care Debate

Julie Menin, 01.06.2010

Host of "Give and Take," seen on NBC In New York and juliemenin.com

One of the key items President Barack Obama campaigned on was his promise to transform government and restore Americans faith in government, which had...

Obama's Second-Year Potential

Chris Weigant, 01.06.2010

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

President Barack Obama has the potential of having a pretty good second year in office. Conventional inside-the-Beltway wisdom is that "nothing much ...

Doctor Who: The Long Goodbye

William Bradley, 01.07.2010

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

"He will knock four times." And so, the finale for the great tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant, came round at last. It was the end of a long goo...

Dick Cheney Claims President Obama's New Haircut is a Sign of 'Letting Terrorists Win'

Ben Berkon, 01.06.2010

Comedy Writer/Blogger, SomethingYouShouldRead.com

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has made yet another public outcry against President Obama, claiming Obama's recent haircut is a sign of "letting the terrorists win."

Obama's A Wimp, Even to a Yellow Dog Dem Like Me

Sandy Goodman, 01.06.2010

Sandy Goodman, a retired producer for NBC Nightly News, is a freelance writer.

As you can tell, after a year of Obama, I'm for him, but not with any real enthusiasm. Nice fella. Good talker. But I'm afraid he's deserving of a descriptive word once applied to the first George Bush. Obama is a wimp.

Desolation at 5 AM

Jack Schimmelman, 01.06.2010

Jack Schimmelman is a former theatre director who created his own work for more than 15 years.

As the fabric of life unravels above, slowly descending, casting a gray diaphanous curtain within our souls, we report to each other our search. We s...

The Grinch Who Steals Our Elections

Gautam Dutta, 01.06.2010

Between resignations and politicians' office-hopping, special elections cannot be avoided. Fortunately, there's a proven way to rescue hapless voters and taxpayers -- Instant Runoff Voting.

The Palin Facebook Doctrine

Shannyn Moore, 01.06.2010

Just a girl from Homer

When Dick Cheney pops up like a whack-a-mole on Cialis, and you can bet Palin won't be far behind. The Underwear Bomber and President Obama's response needed a special Palin edition

Fire Them, Mr. President

Winslow T. Wheeler, 01.06.2010

Director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information

The only other thing the "intelligence community" seems to be good at, other than consistently missing trends of huge importance, is bureaucratic infighting.

The Latest Tool for Iran's Opposition: iPhone Apps

Jamal Abdi, 01.06.2010

Policy Director, National Iranian American Council

Voice of America announced that it will unveil a new app for iPhone and Android mobile devices that will enable Iranians to upload videos, photos and other content to the VOA's Persian News Network

My New Year's Resolution to all "At Risk" Children

Steve Larosiliere, 01.06.2010

Founder and Executive Director of Stoked Mentoring

As a youth advocate, nonprofit leader and mentor, I'm making new resolutions for at-risk youth. I resolve to not just help the easy children, not to give up on children, and to care about their future.

How to Restore Small Bank Lending

Warren Mosler, 01.06.2010

Economist specializing in monetary policy

The Fed should lend unsecured and in unlimited quantities to all member banks at its target interest rate, while dropping all requirements that a percentage of bank funding be 'retail' deposits.

Pelosi Has Back Pedaled Just as Fast as Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 01.06.2010

Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is disingenuous at best and engaging in crass political gamesmanship at worst in whacking Obama for back pedaling on heal...

All That Campaigning? It Mattered

Seth Masket, 01.06.2010

Denver University Professor, Author

Political scientists have a difficult time showing campaigns actually affect votes. In a new paper, I found that had it not been for Obama's field offices, McCain would have won Florida, Indiana and North Carolina.

Black Gays Invited to White House

Irene Monroe, 01.06.2010

Native of Brooklyn, graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia

This past December, the National Black Justice Coalition received an invitation from the White House to its Holiday Open House Tours.

2010: Lets Get America Working Again

Dedrick Muhammad, 01.06.2010

Dedrick Muhammad is a Research Associate for the Institute for Policy Studies.

It is time to move on from the past and embrace the opportunities and challenges that we face this new year: In 2010 the most challenging domestic issue is high unemployment.

McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn't

Robert Scheer, 01.06.2010

Veteran Journalist and Editor of Truthdig.com

The Obama-backed bank regulation bill, with some deceptive reformist window dressing, is a pro-Wall Street business-as-usual cop-out. How odd that it is now McCain standing up to the oversize banks.

A Tale of Two Presidents

Ann Pettifor, 01.06.2010

New Economist, Author, "Debtonation - The Coming First World Debt Crisis"

Both their presidencies have been scarred by the financial crisis. Both have had to balance the interests of their people against the interests of their bankers. But Obama has allowed that balance to tilt in favor of the bankers.

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Steven Weber, 01.05.2010

Actor, wise-ass

On our country as we now experience it, the febrile intoxication of hope and change has reaped the cold despair of thwarted expectation and bitter frustration.

Still No Windfall Profits Tax From Obama After Oil Tops $80 Per Barrel

Lloyd Chapman, 01.05.2010

Small business advocate

In the two years running up to the 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama routinely promised to enact a windfall profits tax on the oil an...