The Right Choice For USAID
The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah to lead USAID is a tremendous choice that underscores the Obama Administration's commitment to the vital role development plays in foreign policy and to the rebuilding of this vital agency.
The selection of Dr. Rajiv Shah to lead USAID is a tremendous choice that underscores the Obama Administration's commitment to the vital role development plays in foreign policy and to the rebuilding of this vital agency.
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Sarah Palin seems to think that Israel should expand as much as it wants, with no regard whatsoever for the Palestinian people.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
While the president has made some strides toward curbing waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon contracting, he has yet to change the crucial balance between military and non-military security spending.
Grist | Joseph Romm | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
In her upcoming book Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin made a slew of false charges concerning clean energy legislation....
Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Economic Club of New York, New York, New York November 16, 2009 On the Outlook for the Economy an...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON – More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama...
bloomberg.com | Susan Antilla | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
In the 14 years I've written columns for Bloomberg News, I've had plenty of feedback from investors who said they lost money at the hands of corrupt b...
Alison van Diggelen | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
In an exclusive interview about President Obama's recently announced White House Job Summit, Paul Krugman was forceful in his view that "the jobs summit cannot be an empty exercise."
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, part of an el...
Rep. Darrell Issa | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Congress and the administration are addicted to using the taxpayers to prop up the flailing housing market without proper oversight. It is precisely this negligent behavior that got us into this mess.
thenation.com | William Greider | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
The Obama administration promised to reform the financial system and make it safe for the rest of us, but recent Congressional action is more likely t...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
TOKYO — The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama. White House cou...
Credit Writedowns | Edward Harrison | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
David Rosenberg thinks the unemployment rate is headed much higher than anyone anticipates. If you recall, back in January when the stimulus package ...
Thomas Frank | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Currently, oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
Geoff Kors | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Over the past year, voters have stripped away marriage rights in California and Maine. And the California Supreme Court failed in its obligation to protect our fundamental freedom to marry. So now what?
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The tragedy at Fort Hood last week raises the question of whether we are indeed fighting in Afghanistan in order to protect ourselves from having to do so on our own soil.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders are full of self-congratulation. But they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank.
Project Syndicate | George Soros | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
NEW YORK -- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundame...
Lowell Thompson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
We like to look back on past presidents and precedents to compare to current leaders. But when you actually know something about the real history, it seldom compares with our pop version.
Kate Clinton | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
At 7:30 on election morning, we walked to our local polling place in the elementary school, past the "Vote Aqui" signs, past the bake sale moms, the c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
The pushback against an omnipotent Federal Reserve keeps growing. A top Congressional leader said Thursday that the Fed will not have the power to ov...
Dave Lindorff | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What we're seeing is that having Obama in the White House, and Democrats "in control" of Congress doesn't get you much in the way of progressive change.
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon. Even merely to discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and the increases in interest rates that are entailed will slow the recovery.
Dan Glickman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics