Yesterday, ThinkProgress provided our readers an opportunity to ask John Podesta questions pertaining to his service on the Obama transition team. You...
Pia Sawhney | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics
When all companies find that the cost of healthcare is bogging them down, this would be the area to fix in an economic stimulus. Will healthcare be the greatest failure of the new administration?
Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
The corporations and small businesses that power American growth and shape our society could be the fuel that turbo-charges our vision of national service.
The New Republic | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
After 37 years on Capitol Hill, Pete Rouse, Barack Obama's Senate chief of staff cum White House senior adviser-in-waiting, is known for three things:...
Ari Melber | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov -- while the press has fixated on the Blagojevich scandal, the allegations of torture by officials in the current administration receive scant attention.
James Love | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics
Obama's transition team is very large, and some the key advisors are not listed on the change.gov web page. It's difficult to sort things out. Malini ...
Peter Daou | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media
For online political operatives and observers this is a prime example of the truism that the medium can quickly flip from being an asset to a liability.
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday he was anxious to correct the record on his transition team's involvement with Gov. Rod Blagojevich and d...
The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
It's quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama's transition teams these days, especially those who are helping with the economics portfolio....
Orlando Sentinel | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
NASA administrator Mike Griffin is not cooperating with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, is obstructing its efforts to get information ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business
Petaluma, Calif. - President-elect Barack Obama has dropped a campaign promise to end Bush Administration policies that have allowed Fortune 500 firms...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
The Bush administration has gone out of its way to lend a hand to Obama's transition team and, in the process, help institutionalize the imperial transition itself.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.04.2009 | Green
As Secretary of Commerce, Bill Richardson can position the US as a leader on international ocean issues. He is a big-picture person, someone who understands the global stage.
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Eugene Jarecki | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
Let us not forget that it was Obama himself who invited each of us to fulfill our end of the contract between citizen and president in an historic effort to bring about change.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's White House Chief of Staff, spoke with reporters on the press plane after a meeting with governors from b...
AP | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush's former political director says the national security team named by President-elect Barack Obama "represents, to a ...
AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama and his advisers were tripping over one another to tear down Hillary Rodham Clinton's fore...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — An adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign who was forced to resign earlier this year after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Cli...
Robert Creamer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
Should progressives beware? Has Barack Obama suckered them into supporting a President who will really govern from the "center-right?" The short answer is no.
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
In a nutshell, the Pentagon's argument couldn't be simpler or more red-bloodedly American: We have too much stuff there to leave Iraq any time soon.
Disgrasian | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment
Post-election politics have begun to resemble an episode of The Hills lately, with Obama (obviously Lauren Conrad) currently vetting best frenemy Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
When did you realize that Barack was The One? Provide exact month, day, and year of your enlightenment, and the names of at least two (2) witnesses.
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Marc Ambinder reports on the Obama team's somewhat unsuccessful attempt to run a tight ship: Several Obama transition staffers have put a version of...
Ari Herzog | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
I still hope transparency is possible in the government, but a curious investigation led me down a path to conclude that transparency is the tip of the iceberg and change.gov is not what it seems.
New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama has imposed stricter conflict-of-interest restrictions on his White House transition team than any president before him. ...
Think Progress | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics