It’s already being picked apart, peeled off, stripped down and pooh-poohed by Congressional Republicans, but President Obama’s job-creation plan still is seen as more
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Pitts: The education of Barack Obama
Leonard Pitts Jr., the eloquent and empathetic columnist for the Miami Herald whose work appears in more than 100 newspapers across the country (including
What Obama can learn from FDR
In 1934, President Roosevelt traveled to Green Bay, Wisconsin to support working families who were struggling against the equivalent of today’s Koch brothers. By
President Obama on “Undercover Boss?”
I’ve been quite fortunate to be spending a few days in Chicago while reading Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell. Mendell is
A campaign finance choice for Obama: People or Wall St.?
How would you like to supplant Goldman Sachs as a major contributor to Barack Obama? How would you like to help America better see
Could Obama have avoided the debt ceiling fight?
The standard progressive narrative is that president Obama wanted a clean debt-ceiling hike but was forced, by extremists in the Republican Party, into making
Libya: What’s wrong with this picture?
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests. —Henry Kissinger Secretary Hillary Clinton is looking happy and relaxed. The man next to her
Sanders: Devastation awaits working families in the “Gang of 6” deficit reduction plan
What I can say is that I have heard, including from people that you might not expect to hear it from, that if they
Iowa caucuses: A reform opportunity for Obama
The first contest for delegates to our national political conventions is the Iowa caucus. In 2012, it will be on Monday, February 6. Iowa
The Afghan war is not about terrorism
The war against Afghanistan continues to be portrayed by President Obama, and other government officials—with the help of a compliant and complicit media—as a