Showing results for: Barack Obama (page 566)
Brother, can you spare a bonus?
Mike Madden
Wall Street whines as Obama announces new bailout rules that cap executive pay at $500,000.
Why the Democrats don’t need evangelicals
Vincent Rossmeier
The 2008 election was starkly divided between voters in the most religious states and those in the least, but Barack Obama won anyway.
Republican sound and fury, signifying (almost) nothing
Mike Madden
Senate Republicans trash an economic stimulus bill that many of them will probably vote for very soon.
The “defense cut” falsehood from The Washington Post and Robert Kagan
Glenn Greenwald
Barack Obama proposes to spend $40 billion more on defense spending this year than was spent last year. Why is he being attacked for "cutting the defense budget"?
The leaderless GOP
Joan Walsh
Limbaugh and Palin are in charge, and there's nothing Michael Steele or Mitch McConnell can do about it.
Just how bad off is the Republican Party?
Thomas Schaller
Republicans know what they're against: Barack Obama. They're still figuring out what they're for.
Watching Bill Clinton work his magic at Davos
Joe Conason
His rock-star status among world leaders, at a time when America's reputation is in tatters, shows the former president is a major asset to Barack Obama.
The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough
Glenn Greenwald
Even for the most cynical observer of Washington sleaze, Tom and Linda Daschle's exploits are quite striking.
Salon Radio: ACLU’s Ben Wizner on immediate Obama tests
Glenn Greenwald
On Feb. 9, in a lawsuit brought by victims of "rendition," the Obama DOJ must either embrace or reject the Bush administration's reliance on the "state secrets" privilege. What will they do?
“The comeback starts now!”
Mike Madden
Welcome to the Republican National Committee's winter meeting -- and the GOP's alternate reality, where happy days are nearly here again.
Welcome to Elsewhere, USA
Katharine Mieszkowski
We e-mail, we text, we Facebook, we blog. Are we more productive today or just more anxious?
Battling Dick Armey
Joan Walsh
The man famous for calling Barney Frank "Barney Fag" says he'd never marry me. Am I a lucky woman, or what?
Paul Krugman unfairly slaps Obama around
Andrew Leonard
Citing House Republican intransigency on the stimulus plan, the economist says the White House should never have made any concessions at all. But what about the Senate?
Blowing away King Coal
Jeff Biggers
Can a scrawny young wind-power activist topple the biggest, dirtiest industry in West Virginia?
Democrats: The party of business
Joan Walsh
Obama shows his skill at stimulus politics, addressing an admiring crowd of CEOs while the GOP postures and makes itself increasingly irrelevant
The 60 Minutes report on growing West Bank settlements
Glenn Greenwald
Bob Simon deserves credit for an unusually probing examination of Israeli extremists who are, by design, preventing a Palestinian state.
Michelle Bachmann, environmental crusader
Alex Koppelman
The Minnesota Republican says she confronted Al Gore at inauguration in order to crack a joke about the cold weather.
Obama gives first TV interview to Arab network
Alex Koppelman
The new president didn't discuss much in the way of substantive policy differences with his predecessor, it was the symbolism that mattered -- but the right is still upset.
You don’t have mail
Mike Madden
In the tech-challenged White House, the prez's BlackBerry-savvy aides feel like they've stumbled into the Carter administration.
Salon Radio: Rep. Alan Grayson on bailout transparency
Glenn Greenwald
The Federal Reserve refuses to disclose the list of institutions receiving bailout funds. Can one freshman Congressman force it to do so?
Continuing Bush policies in Israel and Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald
As the U.S. economic crisis reportedly worsens, is there any real justification for continuing our involvement in Israel's wars and escalating our seven-year occupation of Afghanistan?
Obama’s Vietnam?
Juan Cole
Friday's airstrikes are evidence Obama will take the hard line he promised in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he should remember what happened to another president who inherited a war.
Obama’s Hamas problem
Tony Karon
The president can't afford to continue the Bush administration's policies toward Israel.
Kirsten Gillibrand. Really?
Joe Conason
Why New York Gov. David Paterson chose a senator with conservative views that clash with his own.
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