Obama M.O.: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. (Check it out. He just loves working the other side of the fence.)
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics
Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...
Huff Radio | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media
Gaza; Barack's Back in Town; Senate Appointees We won't solve the Middle East crisis today, but the question appears to be: Why did this fighting ...
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics
We see how Obama is easy to discuss all things domestic (such as bailouts, market forces, and more bailouts), but mum on how he poses to work it out abroad.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
While I understand the anger from the gay-rights community over the Warren issue, I myself am waiting to see some solid results from Obama before judging him.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics
Howard Wolfson, communications guru for Hilary Clinton's primary campaign, announced just now that he will be doing communications work for Michael Bl...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2008 | 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...
Christine Pelosi | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics
As a third generation elected Democratic party official, I speak in favor of family service, and would hope that everyone interested in public life share that call with the next generation.
Jared Levy | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
As Barack Obama goes about forming a cabinet, cries have gone up that Obama is committing some kind of sin by appointing a number of people who worked in the Clinton Administration.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...
The Economist | Posted 12.05.2008 | World
BARACK OBAMA has promised to make Afghanistan his foreign-policy priority. But on the streets of Kabul his electoral triumph has been greeted with jad...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business
A lot has been made of Obama's casting of the key roles in the new administration. There is astonishment aplenty that he's put together a team of strong personalities and former rivals.
Lionel Beehner | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
Obama's familiar-looking team of national security fixer-uppers does not inspire confidence. Nor do his vague answers to detailed questions on specific policies.
Cheryle Jackson | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
Though Obama's plan feels right on the surface, for me it raises two questions: "Which Main Streets?" and "Who gets those jobs?"
Robert Scheer | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics
Maybe Ralph Nader was right: the same Wall Street hustlers will have a lock on our government no matter which major party wins the election. How else is one to respond to Obama's economic picks?
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
It appears there is at least one area of his fledgling administration that is not open to discussion or debate -- the economy.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
The village of Beita was a major news item in June 1998 when a clash between stone throwing youth and Israeli civilians led to the death of one Israeli and three Palestinians.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like gravy through ...
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Obama's peace train is on tracks that have led to the same place since Eisenhower first told America to beware the military-industrial complex.
Lance Simmens | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
We are witnessing the first test of statesmanship from our new leader. We may not readily see it, but he does. What we are getting is exactly what we found so appealing in the first place.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
You've got to ask yourself -- why is this the only story that has leaked in this fashion from the transition team?
Matt Stewart | Posted 11.18.2008 | Entertainment
I'm not fifteen and pissed off anymore, and today's fifteen year-olds don't seem as pissed off as I was at their age. America has changed, and I have too.
Will Bower | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
The primary calendar we need most is one that is built on an orderly and rational plan, and not on an arbitrary, publicity-driven, system of one-upsmanship.
Michael Russnow | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media
Change is coming no thanks to many in the media, who, perhaps looking at the gloomy economic forecasts, are more concerned at being downsized themselves.
Howard W. French | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
The 53 countries of Africa have remained profoundly attached to a vision of America as land of justice, opportunity and freedom. Obama's election will only make such feelings much more intense.
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Michael Shaw | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics