Barack Obama may be the best entrepreneur in the world.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
Obama had said that he was prepared to hold tough presidential negotiations without preconditions with Iran; it seems that he may just have to do so earlier than he might have expected.
James Boyce | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media
Friday morning is NewsLadder time and it's been a busy week, with lots of good news, good traffic and great stories bubbling up from the best of independent media.
Stephen H. Baum | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
"I [Barack Obama] am President of all the people. I will do everything within my power to make heroes of those who work for the common good. I don't need the credit."
Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media
I was advised to take a break from political clutter and that peculiar kind of tunnel vision that develops when we focus too closely on any tiny part of the huge world around us.
Nancy Northup | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
Now that a pro-choice administration is about to move into the White House, it may be tempting to think that we no longer have to "worry" about women's reproductive rights. We must resist that temptation.
Mark Green | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
As president, Obama is historically situated to reframe the American conversation around democracy, diplomacy, opportunity and a greener world. What's more patriotic than the story of progress?
SaraKay Smullens | Posted 12.13.2008 | Living
If you know you are anticipating a meal laced with digs and putdowns, subtle and overt, either political, personal, or a combo practice changing the subject.
Mark Green | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics
It was a "change" election all right, but will it actually change Washington and America? November 2008 wasn't so much a culmination as it was the beginning of a new chapter in our national story.
Kirk Snyder | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business
It's clear that the reason so many young people became involved with the Obama campaign was because he reached them based on an understanding about these new rules for communication.
Sean Jacobs | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Though Europeans generally rejoiced in Barack Obama's election as 44th President of the US, a number of leading European lawmakers and journalists have made "foot-in-mouth comments."
Stephen H. Baum | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
The pressure on Obama from self-centered, single-Issue constituencies has started. Don't you get it? We have an opportunity unlike any other for dec...
Jeff Danziger | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
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Sean Jacobs | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Tutu counsels that Obama "could squander the goodwill that his election has generated if he does not move quickly and decisively on the international front."
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
The Republican Party is only a step away from becoming the fringe of the fringe -- and I speak as a former lifelong Republican who, up through the 2000 primary campaign supported McCain.
The Media Consortium | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business
Barack Obama faces a choice between feeding the political sphere's Wall Street addiction and investing in economic progress.
Bob Edwards | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
I grew up in segregationist Louisville, Kentucky. Jim Crow is not a page in a history book to me -- I was there and I lived it.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
If the crowds celebrating Obama's victory go home in 2009, his Administration will achieve disappointing results. The President-Elect will confront a variety of national and global crises.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.12.2008 | Media
Can the media be faulted if one candidate is committing the major share of gaffes or making the most inaccurate statements in speeches and in ads? Is it "bias" to recognize that?
Sean Hartofilis | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Obama is not a terrorist. But you can call him whatever you'd like -- as long as you call him the President of the United States of America.
Madeleine Albright | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
There is a promise in Obama's election that goes beyond any explicit pledge made during the campaign. That potential may be found in the reaffirmation of America's identity as a true land of opportunity.
Ken Levine | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Now comes word that President Obama plans on going back and correcting some of the boneheaded decisions Mr. Bush made while running the Texas Rangers (into the ground).
Matt Budd | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Barack has a lot to live up to. There's a ton of weight on that man's shoulders, but I feel confident and hopeful that things will work out. I promise to try and keep a stiff upper lip at least until January 20.
Kim Mance | Posted 12.11.2008 | Living
Travel activates parts of ourselves that might otherwise remain dormant; it also relieves fears, and promotes understanding.
Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
Assuming a federal bailout, it makes sense that, over the next few years, American carmakers will be re-engaging with the small-car market.
Steve Strauss | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business