inauguration day
Disinaugural Blues
Joementum
With the election behind us now, talk has already turned to 2016 and the potential of a Joe Biden candidacy. Here was what TNR's Noam Scheiber reported back in August. READ MORE >>
Shelby Steele, A Bound Man
In December, 2007, Shelby Steele authored the book "A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama And Why He Can't Win." By 2010, he was arguing in the Wall Street Journal op-ed page that Obama had damaged himself irreparably: READ MORE >>
Two Critiques of Obama I Don't Understand
[Guest post by Noam Scheiber:] I'm coming a little late to yesterday's Politico piece about how Obama suffers from the absence of a well-articulated worldview, which is probably true to some extent, but I think overstated in the piece. (I'm in the camp that thinks 9.5 percent unemployment is, overwhelmingly, Obama's biggest political problem...) READ MORE >>
(Non)sense Of Snowe
One thing I've been wondering about the last few months is what exactly happened behind the scenes with Olympia Snowe and the health care negotiations. Today, her former health care adviser, William F. Pewen, has a New York Times op-ed. After reading it, I'm still wondering. Pewen blames Republicans for cynically opposing any reform for partisan reasons: READ MORE >>
The Right Man
Bum Rush
Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other friends have spent the past year screaming about the horrors of Barack Obama. And, while it's true that they talked ad nauseam about socialism and the Weathermen and Jeremiah Wright, careful listeners would have noticed a recurring theme of anxiety: that Obama was going to use the newly acquired levers of government to destroy them. READ MORE >>
A Few Good Women
In the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama first distinguished himself in the area of foreign policy; criticizing an atrophied approach to international affairs in both parties, he promised a new approach to diplomacy and national security. As the country waits impatiently for inauguration day, his appointments in those areas indicate that change is indeed on the agenda: In a major adjustment for the realms of foreign policy and national security, his new approach will be led by women. READ MORE >>
