It is relevant to our own day, while respecting Abraham Lincoln's appreciation for historical experience, to recall his appreciation for the need for change.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
I like to think that the Lincoln of the Lost Speech is the one President Obama is paying tribute to in Springfield. The Lincoln filled with the quality the world needs now more than ever: avenging fire.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
By seizing an estate once connected to George and Martha Washington, Lincoln made the point that Lee was nothing but a traitor to the government he had served as a career Army general.
Slate | John Fabian Witt | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
One of Abraham Lincoln's little-noted accomplishments has become his most unlikely legacy. He helped create the modern international rules that protec...
Evan Wolfson | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Obama would do well to ask himself what Lincoln would do faced with the question of whether to continue the denial of the freedom to marry to committed couples.
Editor And Publisher | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Coming from TIME magazine tomorrow is a major piece by Walter Isaacson on how to save newspapers. Excerpt below. Here is link online: http://www.time...
Charles Lachman | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
In each succeeding generation, the misfortunes of Abraham Lincoln's direct descendants multiplied into a litany of alcoholism, squandered fortunes, and outright dissipation.
AP | Posted 03.05.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is heading back to his home state for the first time as president. The White House says he will travel to Springfield...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
We have offshored our ability to defend the country. To confront globalization and its threat to our economy, President Obama will have to go to the people.
Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
As memories of Inauguration Day 2009 begin to fade in and the new administration ensues, speculation will only increase about how politically influential Michelle Obama will be as First Lady.
Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.
David Weiner | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Despite some very true and obvious comparisons between the two, I feel it's my duty to nip the coming onslaught of Washington/Obama comparisons in the bud.
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.
Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.
Alden Loury | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago
As Americans, we seem far better at touting how far we've moved past our racist legacy than actually dealing with our racial problems.
Anne Hill | Posted 02.19.2009 | Style
I have come up with a simple, celebratory drinking game to help ease the pain of what may very well be a day that will live in infamy: the day that keeps haunting us, the day we lowered the bar on change.
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
Today more than ever, Dr. King now seems with us. His premonition of not reaching the Promised Land at this moment seems false, because Barack Obama is standing on King's shoulders.
Steven Weber | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
While watching the celebrations in the run up to this Tuesday's inauguration, I was struck by the realization that we are seeing an America George Bush and Dick Cheney did not want us to see.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
Lincoln's preservation of the union would not have been possible without his economic reform. It is the philosophy at the base of those achievements that must be the prototype for change in America now.
Tom Watson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Media
The simple pageant of a peaceful transition of power in the United States doesn't need any tarting up. The inauguration of the first African-American man speaks for itself.
Huffington Post via CBS News | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics
CBS News talked to two presidential scholars to examine the parallels between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. The two men are separated by 150 year...
Robert D. Patterson | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
The significance of Obama's inauguration resides in the sweat, blood, and tears shed by our forefathers so that people of all races, creed, and gender could share in the American inheritance.
Bob Cesca | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Even rewinding forty years, the secular Republican Party of Goldwater and Nixon looks outright liberal compared with Hannity's Republicanism.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
"Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: 'Too late.'" --Martin Luther King Martin Luthe...
George McGovern | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics