India-Pakistan rapprochement? Terrorists, beware.
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
 The Christian Science Monitor - This week's sit-down between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India may not have removed mountains of suspicion and hostility between these two rivals, but their meeting may have leveled a few foothills. Full Story | Top |
Could the great recession lead to a great revolution?
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - For the first time in generations, people are challenging the view that a free-market order – the system that dominates the globe today – is the destiny of all nations. The free market's uncanny ability to enrich the elite, coupled with its inability to soften the sharp experiences of staggering poverty, has pushed inequality to the breaking point. Full Story | Top |
57 House Progressives Reject Health Care Compromise
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:28 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- The compromises on health care reform now being entertained by at least some aides to President Obama and key Democrats in the House and Senate are so flawed that more than 50 House progressives now say they will oppose them. Full Story | Top |
Obama Allows US to See Color
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - Barack Obama did not herald in a "post-racial America." In fact, the trope betrayed how we confine race to superficial terms. It's the same reason Stephen Colbert has made a standing joke of not being able to "see color." Color is with us. And we cannot get past race by not directly looking at it. Full Story | Top |
Dems Outraising GOP in Congressional Swing Districts
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - As Democrats gear up for 2010, they face a daunting historical fact: since Abraham Lincoln, only two newly-elected presidents have seen their party gain seats in Congress in their first midterm election. Full Story | Top |
Reflections on race
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Editor's note: The so-called beer summit at the White House consists of three men, Cambridge police officer James Crowley, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., and President Obama. Full Story | Top |
A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Under even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years ago by a former attorney general of the United States. At issue today is whether the current attorney general will uphold that standard. Full Story | Top |
BIDEN SINGS OFF-KEY DURING TRIP TO UKRAINE, GEORGIA
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Before the inauguration of Barack Obama, five would have got you 50 that Hillary Clinton, so long the wailing Greek chorus to her husband's problems, would now be the one who talked too frivolously overseas and caused problems for the new president. How wrong one can be! Full Story | Top |
Need a Student Loan?
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:06 am PDT
The Weekly Standard - The House Committee on Education and Labor is having a busy summer. (Everybody in Washington is having a busy summer!) Earlier this month, for example, one of its essential subunits--the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and Healthy Families and Communities, or SECESEHFC--held lengthy hearings to determine new ways the United States Congress might accomplish one of its many important goals: the "Prevention of Bullying." Full Story | Top |
A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Joe Conason - In his struggle to change the nation's health care system, Barack Obama again faces certain obstacles that almost stopped his amazing march to the presidency. Full Story | Top |
Palin's Poll Numbers Falling! But What About Obama's?!
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Larry Elder - Stop the presses (or the tweets)! Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's numbers are falling! Why not concern ourselves with that as 2012 nears. What about Obama's numbers right now ? They are tanking — big-time. A recent "news" article stated, "While the president remains personally popular ..." Full Story | Top |
FIGHTING FAT BY FIGHTING FAT
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:21 pm PDT
Maggie Gallagher - How do we trim health care costs? Weighing in on the national debate, a new study in the journal Health Affairs urges: Fight fat by fighting fat. Full Story | Top |
To Have and To Hold
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:01 am PDT
The Weekly Standard - Detention policy is one of the least discussed but most important aspects of the war in Afghanistan. The handling of prisoners gets publicity only when there is a major screw-up such as at Abu Ghraib or the smaller-scale abuses that occurred in Afghanistan in the early years of the U.S. presence there. But properly handled this can and should be a major element of any successful counterinsurgency strategy. Full Story | Top |
Lily Burk, 17
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - You just have to see the picture of her: a girl on the verge, finding her style, raising her voice, about to embark on a life she could barely yet imagine. This summer she was supposed to volunteer helping homeless drug addicts on Skid Row. Instead, according to police, she was killed by one. Full Story | Top |
All-Access Obama
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - Martha Joynt Kumar, a scholar of presidential communications strategies at Towson University, reports that President Obama is almost everywhere in the media. In their first four months, Bill Clinton gave 11 interviews, and George W. Bush gave 18, compared with 43 from Obama. He has offered his eloquence to ABC News at least six times, seven times on CBS and nine times on NBC. Full Story | Top |
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