Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster
When Obama takes a progressive step, it has been made possible by progressive activism. When Obama takes an anti-progressive step, it has been facilitated by progressives muting their criticism.
When Obama takes a progressive step, it has been made possible by progressive activism. When Obama takes an anti-progressive step, it has been facilitated by progressives muting their criticism.
John McQuaid | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
I thought I'd heard "New Foundation" somewhere before. Sure enough, Jimmy Carter used the same slogan as the framing device for his 1979 State of the Union address.
Marc R. Stanley | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
Some Jewish Republicans will never be happy with anything this president does regarding Israel. Every action will be seen as another mystical sign of this administration's desertion of Israel.
Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business
I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.
Dave Astor | Posted 04.21.2009 | Comedy
Given that Bush lacks the writing chops to pen a coherent book by himself, he'll still have plenty of time on his hands while someone else does the authorial heavy lifting. So, how might Dubya spend that time?
The New Republic | William Galston | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
A surprised Rudolph Penner, assistant director of President Ford's OMB and later a CBO director, offered a blunt assessment of the new president: "[He...
Michael Moore | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
I have watched with mild amusement this week the self-immolation of the Republican Party as it bows before the altar of Rush Limbaugh, begging for mer...
Norman Horowitz | Posted 04.01.2009 | Politics
It is, in a manner of speaking, silly to compare what happens at a Motion Picture and Television Studio to what happens when there is an election and ...
Keith Thomson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
I recently asked an intelligence source: what's being done to thwart Iran? His answer: penetration of the Iranian nuclear apparatus at the highest levels. The CIA is trying. The Mossad is more successful.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
If Obama is truly committed to change, being more optimistic may not help him in that effort. Americans voted for Obama because they were acutely aware of the problems the country faces.
Stanton Peele | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
Obama's effort to resuscitate the US economy is artificial life support, since we are no longer energetic, enterprising, and creative enough to generate sufficient economic activity on our own.
Robert Naiman | Posted 03.14.2009 | World
It is very likely that if the U.S. were to engage Hamas diplomatically, it would be much easier to achieve a peaceful political resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Alexander Dresner | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The White House has reclaimed its place as an intellectual playground. In keeping with this tradition I propose a permanent addition to the White House staff: a historian-in-residence.
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.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
The Obama presidency is an opportunity for our political leadership, of both parties, to stop denigrating big cities, and ignoring the positive role they play in our political life.
Dr. Stephen Forman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
As President Bush leaves the White House and returns to Texas, we can only hope for him what we want for ourselves; to learn from our mistakes and to do good in the world with the time.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
President Obama's first days in office have been chock full of reversing the actions of the previous president, from halting midnight environmental re...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
He's the president apart, pictured here standing to the side in a group photo of all the living members of The President's Club in the Oval Office ear...
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.
Scott Kurashige | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement leaders defined their mission: "to save the soul of America." Obama's address can serve as a reminder of that incomplete mission.
Chip Collis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
In calling us back to our national heritage of pluralism, the changeObama urges has been a long time coming, a long time overdue. Obama calls not for a change in America, but in Americans themselves.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Until today, I had only known two kinds of presidents, those who I really didn't like and those who I tolerated. Obama is something different, a president who I actually believe in.
ABC News | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter appeared to greet former Republican President George H.W. Bush and his wife warmly, kissing Barbara Bush on t...
Will Bunch | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics
While his words may be invoking Lincoln a lot this week, Obama's style, in pulling off the most expensive inauguration in American history as thousands are losing their jobs, is straight from the Gipper's playbook.
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics