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Obama Fends Off Bush’s Embrace

By Bruce J. Schulman 11/11/08 3:45 PM

In navigating the transition before his Jan. 20 Inauguration Day, President-elect Obama must avoid the pitfalls that have undermined presidents-elect past.


Palin Strikes Back

By Harry Shearer 11/11/08 12:35 PM

John McCain, Palin aides assert, has no idea of the location of the Tlingit Indian reservation, nor any idea how, when or why the Eagle Dance is performed.


Obama the Visionary Minimalist

By Cass R. Sunstein 11/6/08 3:59 PM

The president-elect is something new in American politics. In showing unfailing respect for those with competing views, he attempts to produce solutions that will accommodate the defining commitments of his fellow citizens. But he also wants to transform the nation’s self-understanding.


The President-elect and The Chairman

By Harold Meyerson 11/6/08 12:45 PM

Obama fuses JFK with RFK — the cool concealing the intense emotional message. It’s hard to think of a comparable figure on the American landscape. Well, there’s one. Sinatra.


Obama’s Delicate Balancing Act

By Anne Taylor Fleming 11/5/08 3:26 PM

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.


Palin’s Post-Election Plans

By Bruce McCall 11/5/08 12:50 PM

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sees a memoir, a chain of “Sarah Palin’s Shoot ‘n’ Sizzle” firing ranges and a for-profit think tank, The Sarah Palin Foundation” among the many options in her future. And there’s always 2012 in the big picture.


The Divide That United

By David Dante Troutt 10/31/08 6:44 PM

Previous GOP campaigns succeeded by stoking people’s “artificial differences,” as Jesse Jackson once put it. That old okey-doke can’t survive this much time or this much crisis.


One-Party Government Does Not Equal ‘Extreme’

By Julian E. Zelizer 10/30/08 3:35 PM

During periods of one-party government, when Democrats controlled both the White House and the Congress, history shows that they have not shifted radically toward a leftward agenda.


Volcker Signs On: A ‘True’ Conservative in the Obama Camp

By Charles R. Morris 10/28/08 5:04 PM

Volcker is celebrated as the Federal Reserve chairman who broke the plague of global inflation in the early 1980s. But he did it be engineering a violent crackdown on excess credit. Why a ‘Burkean’ conservative can support this Democratic nominee.


McCain Defends Campaign Lies as Test of Dems’ Intelligence

By Bruce McCall 10/28/08 1:45 PM

Yet another turn in the GOP presidential campaign strategy. Could this tactic finally seal the deal?


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