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.

2010: Lets Get American 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 is...

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...

Ryan Grim: Being 'Hard' Or 'Soft' On Terror Doesn't Make Sense

Huff TV, 01.05.2010

HuffPost's Ryan Grim was on MSNBC Tuesday to discuss, along with conservative journalist Jamie Weinstein, whether Obama is "soft on terror." "I kind...

Why America Needs Trains

Joe Biden, 01.06.2010

Vice President of the United States of America

Over the course of my career, my 7,000 round trips on Amtrak have provided me with an understanding of -- and a respect for -- the role of rail travel in our society and our economy.

Education Policy, 2010: Big Goals, Little Vision

Mike Rose, 01.05.2010

Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Author, Why School?

We need an education policy that is based on our best current knowledge of learning and teaching. We need to scrap the technocratic model and replace it with a human capital model.

Cheney's Legacy

Joe Peyronnin, 01.05.2010

NYU Journalism Professor

Where were the critics of Obama's Flight 253 handling when it took President Bush six whole days to comment about Richard Reid's failed attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb?

Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifry's Theory of an 'Obama Disconnect'

Peter Daou, 01.05.2010

Political consultant, former adviser to Hillary Clinton

Micah Sifry has written a widely discussed essay about the denuded Obama grassroots movement. But if Obama's online movement was fueled by a myth, then why bemoan its loss?

Obama's Aces Over

Matt Bennett, 01.05.2010

Third Way Vice President for Public Affairs

Right now, the President may appear to have a meager stack of chips in front of him, but it's because his entire bankroll is in the pot. And as it turns out, he's holding a couple of aces.

Party On at the White House

Charlotte Safavi, 01.06.2010

Anglo-Iranian-American Journalist

Apparently, the leap from Silver Screen shindig to White House soiree is pretty seamless these days.

New Year's Resolutions For Progressives 2010

W. Hunter Roberts, 01.05.2010

Coach, author, minister

A smart young woman asked my friend, Jennifer, "What would happen if you stopped accepting demands or criticisms from anyone not pulling their weight?"

The Real Climate Choice Before Congress: Cap and Trade or Command and Control?

Steven Cohen, 01.05.2010

Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

EPA's proposal to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants is a hacksaw, when the Obama Administration would rather operate with a scalpel.

Flip-flopping With Jim DeMint

Danielle Celena Belton, 01.05.2010

Blogger/Online Campaign Manager for New Security Action

Conservatives lare focusing on how often President Obama says the word 'terrorism.' Not on his actions. Not on his abilities. But word counting. This is where they want to take our national security debate.

Obama's Secret Weapon: OFA

Robert Creamer, 01.05.2010

Political organizer, strategist and author

As the political punditry prognosticates of Democratic political disaster this fall, it is well to remember that Democrats have a weapon, the importance of which Washington types don't fully understand.

If Obama Gets a B+; What Grade Does Eric Mangini Deserve?

Bill Lucey, 01.05.2010

writer on politics and history

Maybe we extend the same kind of patience many afford President Obama to Eric Mangini after a season of coaching one of the sorriest franchises in the NFL.

How Obama Can Create Jobs and Decrease Unemployment

Steven Hill, 01.05.2010

Director, Political Reform Program, New America Foundation

It's time for either some new ideas from across the Atlantic, where "social capitalism" is weathering this storm better than U.S.-style "Wall Street capitalism."

The $30 Billion Pair of Underwear

Mark Levine, 01.05.2010

Historian of the Middle East

Invasive frisking of the most intimate areas of the human body and revealing full body scans represent from a hardcore Salafi perspective an almost unbearable indignity -- one they will surely relish seeing.