In his remarks at Organizing for America's National Health Care Forum on Thursday, President Obama invoked FDR's battle to pass Social Security, clear...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
To the people who shrug and say that politicians are all the same, answer with four words: torture and stem cells.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Slate reports that President Obama is considering a series of short televised addresses to respond to economic issues -- taking a cue from Franklin D....
Newsweek | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
As the financial markets pause at the edge of the abyss, deciding whether to back away, we should take a moment to mull over all the Blame Obama rheto...
Mark Adams | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
If Obama wants to improve wellness for Americans while slimming the deficit before the 2012 elections, he might consider adopting another role model from the New Deal era: Bernarr Macfadden.
wsj.com | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Abraham Lincoln may be President Barack Obama's favorite predecessor, but in his early White House days his recipe has been two parts Franklin D. Roos...
Kim Phillips-Fein | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
As the idea of the New Deal comes back in style, so does opposition to the vision of activist government.
June Hopkins | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
The PWA was Wall Street; the WPA was Main Street. The PWA served to stimulate business; the WPA employed Americans. Both served to boost the economy and rebuild the nation's infrastructure.
Rob Riemen | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
As you compose your inaugural address, I fervently hope that you will not pass over the exchange of ideas in the White House between a great president and a great intellectual on the chilly morning of January 14, 1941.
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
Paul Krugman writes Monday that, no matter what President-elect Obama does, we're in for up to a year of "economic hell" -- and that things will never...
Time | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
It is one of the ironies of politics and history that when the candidate of change was pondering what he would do if he actually got elected President...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home
A President Obama's greatest challenge would be to reverse the ideological assumptions of the past three decades and then to use affirmative government to deliver not just economic recovery but a just and balanced economy and a revitalized democracy.
Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics