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Obama blasts banks

Darlene Superville
Singles out financial institutions for opposition to tighter regulations

One way Obama can earn his Nobel Peace Prize

Bill Moyers
The U.S. is one of a few countries that won't ban land mines. It's time for the president to change that

How General Electric got its own loophole

Andrew Leonard
GE won't have to comply with new banking regulations, thanks to a friendly legislator with a Goldman Sachs history

Top 5 ways Obama can redeem his Nobel

Juan Cole
The president got his prize as an encouragement. Here's how he can rise to the occasion

The president’s Nobel acceptance speech

Salon Staff
A war president's thoughts on peace in Oslo

President’s jobs initiative doesn’t measure up

Robert Reich
The president is trying to avoid criticism on spending with a small jobs plan, just when we need a big one

My friend the president

Glenn Greenwald
The deep anger some Obama supporters display toward criticism of their leader is both familiar and disturbing

Conyers: Obama said I was “demeaning” him

Alex Koppelman
The president reportedly called one of his liberal critics to talk about the criticism

UN: This decade is likely warmest on record

Charles J. Hanley
New data will probably show the past 10 years broke kept since 1850; 2009 teh 5th-warmest year

Editorial: They don’t come greener than Obama

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
European critics are calling Barack Obama a traitor on climate change, but he's America's greenest president ever

Why the climate talks will be a disaster

Bill McKibben
Politics-as-usual won't solve our most pressing problem, no matter what Obama brings to the table

Obama urges Dems to pass healthcare reform

Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar
In rare Sunday session, pressure from the White House

Climate summit prospects brighten

Dina Cappiello, Ben Feller
Obama shifts timing of visit hoping to capitalize on promises by India and China

Aide: Senator nominated girlfriend for post

Thomas Peipert

Obama explains his economic balancing act

Andrew Leonard
It's not easy to accelerate job growth while putting the brakes on deficit spending. The President makes his case

Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is?

Glenn Greenwald
Why are key aides contradicting each other on a central point? Plus: My TV debate with Christopher Hitchens

U.S. Marines launch offensive in Afghanistan

ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU
Bid to disrupt Taliban supply, communications lines is first since Obama's speech

The Democrats’ problem with black voters

Alex Koppelman
African Americans' enthusiasm about voting takes a sharp drop, and that could be big come 2010

The poster boy for progressive self-delusion

Joan Walsh
Read Hayden's 2008 Obama endorsement to remember the way the left sold our centrist president to itself

Hayden: “Time to strip the Obama sticker off my car”

Alex Koppelman
Old-school liberal says the president's decision on Afghanistan is the last straw

NATO: Allies will provide 5,000 more troops

Slobodan Lekic, Deborah Seward
Pledges of additional troops came in small numbers from small nations

The commendably missing element from Obama’s speech

Glenn Greenwald
There was no pretense that human rights is our goal, or the likely outcome, in escalating the war

Obama’s surge: Has the president been misled by the Iraq analogy?

Juan Cole
Good timing made Bush's surge look successful. Obama will probably enjoy no such luck

Republicans play Scrooge, minus the change of heart

Garrison Keillor
The truth of Christmas -- rejoice and show mercy to the poor -- is tested as we move toward universal healthcare
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