The President's Health Care Reform Symposium

Kim Davis, 02.09.2010

Managing Director and founding partner of Charlesbank Capital Partners, LLC

President Obama needs to start making some real enemies on his left because the strategy of conditioning passage on an all-liberal-with-a-few-moderates strategy will not work.

Iran's Defiant Dare = Crunch Time for Obama

Amb. Marc Ginsberg, 02.09.2010

Former US Amb. to Morocco

Biting economic sanctions -- the type that hit at the very economic and financial heart of the regime and not the Iranian people -- must be aggressively pursued and carefully constructed.

America: The Sick Man of the Western Hemisphere

Eric Margolis, 02.09.2010

Veteran journalist and Author

America has become the Sick Man of the Western Hemisphere, an economic cripple like the defunct Ottoman Empire whose inept financial management was legendary.

Educating the Energy Generation

Teryn Norris, 02.09.2010

Senior Advisor, Breakthrough Institute

Last week, the Obama administration introduced a proposal that every college student and educator in the country should know about. It represents the ...

The Hopey Changey Stuff

Jeff Schweitzer, 02.09.2010

Marine Biologist and Former Clinton White House Science Advisor

Palin's popularity in segments of society indicates that a portion of the voting population has come to disdain science, objective truth and the benefits resulting from our waning period of enlightenment.

Obama's Health Care Summit -- Why the GOP Will Try to Bow Out

Ryan Mack, 02.09.2010

Economic commentator

For health care reform to pass would mean that the administration actually got something done. So the GOP's plan is to think of reasons to back out of the proposed health care summit.

Obama and the TARP

Dr. Philip Neches, 02.09.2010

If one just looked at the numbers, President Obama's first year in office would have to be rated a huge success. Ultimately though, the large number of small accomplishments did not shape public perception.

HuffPost's Ryan Grim Talks About The President's Surprise Visit Before White House Press Corps (VIDEO)

Huff TV, 02.09.2010

On Tuesday, HuffPost's Ryan Grim went on MSNBC to discuss President Obama's surprise appearance before the White House press corps, and his efforts to...

Sarah Palin for President

Dave Hackel, 02.09.2010

TV writer/producer

I think "Palin For President" has a nice ring to it. And I've got a lot of reasons.

Weekly Audit: Attack of the Imaginary Budget Demons

The Media Consortium, 02.09.2010

Network of Leading Progressive Independent Journalism Organizations

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger On Feb. 1, President Barack Obama unveiled his 2011 budget proposal. While conservative pundits reacted with ...

What Team Obama Can Learn From Google's Superbowl Ad

Eddie Reeves, 02.09.2010

Principal of the Reeves Strategy Group

Google's "Parisian Love" ad packed an emotional punch not with histrionics, but by reminding its target audience that Google's vaunted search engine is an indispensable enabler of modern life.

Gays in the Military

Madeleine M. Kunin, 02.09.2010

First Female Governor of Vermont; Marsh Scholar, University of Vermont

Let us hope that John McCain will have the decency to recognize a good solider when he sees one, not by his or her sexual orientation, but by their willingness to serve their country.

Health Care: Peoples' Call For Action

Dr. Behzad Mohit, 02.09.2010

Author, Physician

Health care in this country is in dire straits. I've written suggestions to fix our broken system. The plan I proposed involves the creation of an independent people-funded, people-managed insurance coop.

In The Public Interest: What's Next for High-Speed Rail?

Phineas Baxandall, 02.09.2010

Senior Analyst, U.S. PIRG

Given sufficient, sustained government investment, a high-speed rail network could compete with intercity commuter air travel while benefiting America's economy and environment.

The F Word: Lifting the Veil on US Troops in Pakistan

Laura Flanders, 02.09.2010

Author, Broadcaster, host of GRITtv

"The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday lifted the veil on United States military assistance to Pakistan." S...

Dear Mr. President: No Bi Ideas Please

Charles Karel Bouley, 02.09.2010

Talk Show Host, Entertainer, Author, Reporter, Comic

Mr. President, you need to do what's unpopular in Washington, but popular everywhere else: stop waiting for the other side to approve or contribute and simply run with the ideas you told us about.

Let's Call It "Pocketbook Populism"

Mark Green, 02.09.2010

Author and former Public Advocate of New York City

Time to take back "populism" from Teabaggers and Palinites who've kidnapped it to only mean less government and taxes. Democrats need to define a phrase and philosophy that tells Independents we're on your side.

Rahm, His Critics, and the American People

Zack Exley, 02.09.2010

Author and Organizer, Kansas City

The Rahm Administration is failing because it believes that the Obama Campaign's big, inspiring message was in fact hippy BS.

Paralysis on the Left and in Congress: Health Reform, Strong Jobs Bill In Peril

Art Levine, 02.09.2010

Contributing editor of The Washington Monthly

Progressive groups, Democrats and unions also haven't coalesced behind a clear strategy to move now-stalled health care reform forward, or to convince cowed Senate Democrats to take on the a large-scale jobs creation program.

Obama's Bipartisanship

Taylor Marsh, 02.09.2010

Political analyst, commentator, with foreign policy focus

Because of the lack of Democratic leadership, which includes a lack of will to use reconciliation, but also the craftiness to pull together a bill that had a simple way forward, Republicans are in a tremendous position.

The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander, 02.09.2010

Author of The New Jim Crow, Race-Talk contributor

There are more African Americans under correctional control today -- in prison or jail, on probation or parole -- than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.