Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake
As Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has to send a powerful signal that the era of unethical behavior and unchecked industry influence is over.
As Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has to send a powerful signal that the era of unethical behavior and unchecked industry influence is over.
Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
Bush's cabinets were an array of lobbyists, partisan hardliners, and warmongers. There was no one to expand ideas or bring a different perspective, just a bunch of yes men.
Dan Brown | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
We can only hope that Obama balances the smart Rubinauts whom he has picked to lead his economic team with some equally smart pro-Main Street economic minds.
Jennifer Donahue | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
The control the Obama campaign and now transition have demonstrated over the media is as sophisticated and as groundbreaking as Lee Atwater's use of multimedia developments for Richard Nixon.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green
If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.
Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.17.2008 | Green
President Bush has left a regulatory wasteland in his wake these last eight years, and it won't be easy for President Obama to undo all of the Bush ro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
A grassroots effort is underway for Barack Obama to appoint Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq War and onetime congressional candidate, as Secreta...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
Here is one Democrat's assessment of who might be seated around the Cabinet Room table shortly after January 20, 2009 if Obama is elected president.
Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Putting Obama at the center of a team of rivals, all of them familiar, even venerable, pieces of political furniture would dampen the he's-not-one-of-us factor that is still his greatest danger.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics
The author of a much-discussed op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor -- which charged that former Gov. Mitt Romney said he would likely not appoint a...
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Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green