I happened to be on campus at Webster University Tuesday evening when I noticed something that seemed — to me, at least — unusual.
President Barack Obama was addressing the nation. Students were clustered around a television set inside the lobby…
It’s tempting to see our deepening economic crisis through the prism of the culture of greed that flourished under the let-markets-run-wild ideology of the outgoing Bush administration.
To be sure, any administration that lets private companies rip off the military in wartime…
President-elect Obama with Hillary Clinton and James L. Jones Jr. (AP Wirephoto)
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are…
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
It is a quadrennial Beltway ritual: an incoming administration’s selection of cabinet secretaries, top department officials and senior White House staff. The Obama presidency-in-waiting is cranking at full throttle on this essential…
Violence in Congo continues. Will this be another Darfur; another Rwanda?
Silence from both the Obama and Clinton camps. Remember, last week it was reported that President-elect Barack Obama asked Sen. Hillary Cltinon, his one-time rival, to be his secretary of state. Vetting of…
THE FOLLOWING paragraphs are from an actual published newspaper story about problems with voter registrations. I’ve edited out certain identifying information, so as not to spoil the punchline:
“Investigators for [deleted] attorney general and secretary of state have launched an inquiry into…
Perusing al-Jazeera’s Arabic-language website the other day, I saw an article from mid-June about the presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama, specifically over statements they had made about their views on terrorism.
I thought it might be interesting to translate it…
Obama seeks support from Hillary Clinton’s donors, gets the cold shoulder (via TPM media).
And he takes heat from the netroots about his support of telecom immunity (via Huffington Post).
It doesn’t get much funnier: Karl Rove is spearheading an effort to label Obama…
The telecom immunity bill surfaces again. Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., vow to filibuster. That’s a promise we’ve heard before. Read it here, via Huffington Post.
And she returns like royalty. Politico reports on HRC’s return to the Senate.
Meanwhile, Bill…
And so it ends, with a soaring call for change from the first African-American ever chosen as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, and with a not-quite-concession speech from the candidate who almost became the first woman to claim that honor.
And so…
As the nation looks back nostagically on the economic boom years of the 1990s, no one is remembered more fondly than Robert E. Rubin.
As President Bill Clinton’s economic policy adviser and as treasury secretary, Mr. Rubin had — and still…
Al From, founder and chief executive officer of the Democratic Leadership Council, dropped by the office Tuesday and predicted that “despite what people said a year ago, the election this November will be a battle for the political center.”
Of course, that’s…
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign this afternoon finally released the Clinton family tax returns, and hoo-hah! We’re not talking Alex Rodriguez-Albert Pujols money, but as Chico Escuela might say, public service has been very, very good to them.
Since 2000, the Clintons, filing jointly,…
