The Simple Arithmetic of Hank Paulson's Financial Disaster
Financial markets just gave Hank Paulson a vote of no confidence. His inaction has triggered a chain reaction. Unfortunately, it's the rest of us who will pay the price.
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Arianna Huffington: Obama's Call to Service Meets the Economic Meltdown
On Monday afternoon I got a blast email from the Obama campaign. I immediately wondered what I was going to be asked to do: Donate to the Franken campaign? Make calls for Jim Martin down in Georgia? It turned out to be neither. The campaign was letting me know that barackobama.com was directing visitors to volunteer for relief efforts to aid the victims of the Southern California fires. Obama's high-tech outreach has been instrumental in getting people to donate millions of dollars and contribute millions of hours working on the campaign. Now, with Americans facing economic challenges unlike any in our lifetime -- with metaphorical fires burning all across the country -- will it become a hub for civic action?
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Obama: Don't Hire Hillary
As a professor of global affairs and an international security advisor to both the U.S. military and President of Afghanistan, I say if Obama wants to mend scars he should send her flowers.
Apparently, It's the Government's Fault Detroit Is Bankrupt
We're seeing an amazing act of willful ignorance here. The predicament that Detroit has found itself in is an American business tragedy. Let's not make it worse by lying to ourselves.
A Bad Idea: Using a Financial Solution to the Financial Crisis
It is almost irrational to give finance the instruments to do more of what has brought us to the brink. The prior bailouts each contributed one more element to the unsustainable leveraging we have now reached.
Waxman Defeats Dingell, Blue Dogs Get Spanked
This week the Senate voted to remain an exclusive club of self-protection and entitlement by letting Bush enabler Joe Lieberman keep his gavel, but the House has voted for progress.
Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq
In a nutshell, the Pentagon's argument couldn't be simpler or more red-bloodedly American: We have too much stuff there to leave Iraq any time soon.
Obama Wins -- For Black and White Americans... What's Next?
For white Americans, the election of Obama does not mean the conversation on race is over, that we are past race as an issue, and that we can now forget about affirmative action.
An Open Letter To Joe Lieberman
I submit to you, Sen. Lieberman, that you were punished yesterday more than you realize. Stick with me on this. I'll explain: it never fully occurred to me how Obama would use his strengths in a position of leadership. Until this week.
Public Employee Pensions Are Not the Problem
Right-wing critics of public employee pensions will use any angle to convince folks that these plans are bankrupting states, cities and towns. However, they are an essential part of the capital market.
How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama
Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.
Romney's Idiotic Plan for Detroit
Let's not be coy about the real agenda here. Republicans like Mitt Romney see this as an opportunity to wage war against the UAW.
Hillary Clinton: Why She is Uniquely Qualified as Secretary of State
To pick Clinton would send a message indeed: that the U.S. is a leader on women's rights across the world. Clinton also has the bona fides to match any other contender on foreign policy issues not related to human rights.
Will Waxman the Big Tobacco Fighter Take on Big Oil?
Waxman is now in a position to haul the energy executives onto to the floor and expose this campaign just like he did with Big Tobacco.
Obanomics
Obama fundamentally trusts markets, but believes that they make grievous errors (I'll say!), and that those errors must at times be aggressively corrected. Is that a new idea? If so, then no wonder we're screwed.
Huckabee Was The Inspiration For The Twisted Character in My Novel
Huckabee has decided to take Romney to task, not only as a way to settle an old score, but to fire a warning shot across Romney's brow in preparation for the 2012 Republican primary.
Obama's Big Congressional Victory
Rep. Dingell, as the chair of the House energy and commerce committee, was nothing more than a shill for the auto industry, working overtime to suppress any attempts at controlling pollution or raising mileage limits.
Obama's Post-Election Good Outweighs the Bad Remnants of the Past
The positive and uplifting spirit of the African American community and all others of goodwill will not be broken by the these latest random acts of madness -- the threats made against Obama.
Rahm Emanuel's Political Pirouettes
If Emanuel's legendary aggressiveness were put to work in the service of "good government," he might, indeed, do wonderful things. But I somehow doubt that's what Obama has in mind for his friend.
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