The Republican Presidential Recession Record
Eisenhower: 2 recessions; Nixon and Ford: 2 recessions; Reagan: 1 recession; George H.W. Bush: 1 recession; George W. Bush: 2 recessions; Democrats: 1 recession. Eight to one, you decide.
Eisenhower: 2 recessions; Nixon and Ford: 2 recessions; Reagan: 1 recession; George H.W. Bush: 1 recession; George W. Bush: 2 recessions; Democrats: 1 recession. Eight to one, you decide.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
President-elect Obama appointed old hands to his top economic posts, explaining Wednesday that "the vision for change" comes from him. That's a way to deal with a central problem of transitions.
Rupert Russell | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.
Eric Margolis | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
I've been a lifelong Republican and plan to spend all Eternity as one. But my party abandoned me in the year 2000.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
The Republican Party likes to remember Abraham Lincoln. And so they should. It's a nice memory and brings credit to them. But there is another strand that runs through their history.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home
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Martin Nolan | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home
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Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics
McCain has guaranteed he would win the election. It's understandable why he may think victory is still within his grasp. Republicans have proven most adept at winning elections by following a simple formula.
Martin Nolan | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Today, amid economic trauma which he does not seem to understand, McCain has conjured up the Stygian gloom of ultraconservatism's darkest hour.
Eugene Jarecki | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
I encourage McCain and, for that matter, anyone in Washington who's drunk the Gipper's free-market fundamentalist and gun-toting expansionist Kool-Aid, to spend a bit more time reading Eisenhower.
Rusty Russell | Posted 09.10.2008 | Home
Nearly every admonishment of Obama these days includes some call for the candidate to cut to the chase. Simplify the speeches, they say. Chop down the answers into blurbs. But what all these freelance campaign managers miss is this: Barack doesn't think that way. He's not a refrigerator magnet guy.
Tony Sachs | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics
Well, this time we didn't lose it. John McCain won it by running a campaign so brilliant that it seemed to surprise even his most enthusiastic backers.
Steve Clemons | Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics
Tonight, McCain gave us a big dose of Reagan's national greatness flourish in a dignified, genteel and pleasant manner. His speaking style was reminiscent of Reagan -- without the memorable lines.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 08.31.2008 | Politics
How can Republicans -- having failed so ignominiously at home and abroad over the past eight years -- recover? What can be done to save this party?
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
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Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
With $9.3 trillion national debt, a declining economy and enormous unmet needs, the time is long overdue for Congress to stop rubber-stamping White House requests for military spending.
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media
The New York Times traces the trend as far back as George Stephanopoulos's switch from the Clinton White House to ABC News, but it goes much further back.
Robert Scheer | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Once again, the president is passing the buck to the uniformed military to justify continuing a ludicrous imperial adventure, and the good general has dutifully performed.
Tony Sachs | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics
It's simple. Eight years of peace and prosperity minus marital infidelity and Whitewater equals me, Al Gore. See you January 20.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 01.22.2008 | Business
How do you get out of recession without encouraging all those bad habits that have gotten us into our economic morass to begin with?
Laraine Newman | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
The Republicans want Hillary to be the nominee, because they can beat her. At best, her ability to win isn't as certain as Edward's. We can't have another Republican in the White House!
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.04.2007 | Entertainment
For me, Ken Burns' stunning documentary shows that all war is evil and must be ended for good, not glorified or exploited for partisan political advantage.
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Jeff Madrick | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics