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House Republicans have invited President-elect Barack Obama to speak before the entire GOP conference, hoping to set a different tone to the partisan ...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) is leading congressional support for a new loophole in federal contracting law that will allow some of the wealthi...
Sunil Adam | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama's conspicuous silence on the latest conflagration in the Middle East is perhaps not only tactical but also prudent. There...
Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Obama's press conference today promised a "clean break from a troubled past." Central to a clean break must be an emphasis on recovery for all Americans, not the just usual beneficiaries.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama returned to Capitol Hill today for the first time since his election, convening leaders of both parties to lay the groundwork for his eco...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Welcome to our annual awards! For the past three years, this column has paid homage (translation: "ripped off their gimmick") to the McLaughlin Group...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Our troops are missing Christmases, birthdays, and wedding anniversaries -- often back to back. The marathon deployment cycle is adding greater stress to already strained families.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
A source within the Obama transition team visiting Amman stated that the actual closure will take up to six months to complete because of the uncertainty of what to do with some of the more notorious prisoners.
The Media Consortium | Posted 12.21.2008 | Home
By Lindsay Beyerstein, MediaWire blogger It's official, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be Barack Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschl...
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
Let's admit, a reasonable "big idea" alternative to the "bailout" plan is in short supply. Our imagination these days only goes so far as what fixes we can buy ourselves out of.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
Speaking for my tiny little chunk of the liberal blogosphere, I don't like Joe Lieberman. I was disgusted by Hillary's campaign. And I couldn't be happier with Obama's decisions.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly a...
Karen Talavera | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
In ordinary times those seventy-seven days wouldn't seem like much. In the past they've not been pivotal. Yet these are anything but ordinary times.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.14.2008 | Style
Obama's mother knew a thing or two about how women, when in charge of the economy, be it of a household, a bank, or a country, can make a real difference.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Welcome back to Friday Talking Points. Of course, the big question on everyone's mind right now is: What is going on up in Minnesota? Al Franken is t...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living
Prayer doesn't necessarily change God, but it has the power to transformour hearts and minds.
The Heckler | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago
Another post-election bombshell was dropped when news spread that President-elect Barack Obama -- long-believed to be a capable basketball player -- actually sucks at the game.
Terence Smith | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama seems to have an almost perfect ear for the American political pulse, a kind of political GPS that tells him where people are and where they want to go.
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Bush embraced Barack Obama's election victory Wednesday, saying he understands the message of change that was the centerp...
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
President Obama is going to be held to a very high standard by the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. We'll be watching, and holding everyone in Washington accountable.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Elizabeth Blackney of "Media Lizzy" joins co-hosts Maegan Carberry and Teresa Valdez Klein to weigh in on today's presidential election and the natio...
Parvez Sharma | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Even though the Republican party with its "Whites Only" narrative succeeded in making "Muslim" and "Arab", the dirtiest epithets in America, the Obama narrative silenced them.
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Washington Post | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics