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- Coal's Pipedream? - June 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama should be applauded for taking climate change seriously, recognizing that the phenomenon can be traced to the burning of fossil fuels and...
- GM: A Temporary Reprieve - June 2, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We were a GM family when I was growing up, back when Americans could be roughly divided into clans according to which of the Big Three automakers they...
- Grasping at Straws - May 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is a proud and accomplished Latina. This fact apparently drives some prominent...
- Fresh Air Versus a Bunker - May 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Which reality do you inhabit, Obama World or Cheney World? If it's the latter, remember that storm clouds are always gathering. Don't forget your...
- Old Faithful of Nonsense - May 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Can't we send Dick Cheney back to Wyoming? Shouldn't we chip in and buy him a home where the buffalo roam and there's always room for one more crazy old...
- It Makes No Sense to Be Against Gay Marriage - May 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Believe it or not, often I can see the other side of an argument. I know that tough gun control laws save lives and make our communities safer, for...
- A World Without the Globe? - May 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Despite the whole Red Sox vs. Yankees thing, employees of The Boston Globe were mostly relieved in 1993 when the paper was bought by the New York Times Co....
- Republicans on a Bridge to Nowhere - May 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- At this point, I'm almost ready to start rooting for the Republicans. No, not really. There's no "mercy rule" in politics. And anyway, the increasingly...
- The Devils We Know - April 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Mexico City is one of the greatest urban agglomerations in the world, a dense and teeming mountain valley with a population of more than 20 million....
- Torture is Illegal - April 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The many roads of inquiry into the Bush administration's abusive "interrogation techniques" all lead to one stubborn, inconvenient fact: Torture is not...
- Sometimes, a President Must Slap Back - April 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It's hard to argue with the results thus far from President Obama's "no drama" approach to campaigning and governing, but I think he should learn to chew a...
- Mad as Hell at Teatime - April 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The cool, cerebral White House might logically conclude that Wednesday's decidedly uncool, uncerebral "tea bag" protests were intellectually and...
- Black Caucus Duped by Fidel - April 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus delegation that visited Havana last week was naive not to notice -- or disingenuous not to acknowledge -- that Cuba is...
- Bush's Torture Prisons - April 10, 2009
- After years of stonewalling, the Bush administration in October 2006 allowed the Red Cross to interview 14 Guantanamo detainees who had previously been held and...
- Why Not a World Without Nukes? - Washington Post - April 7, 2009
- Are you kidding me? Do I hear the new administration's critics -- okay, one critic, Bill Kristol -- complaining about President Obama's call for moving toward a world...
- Crazy Like a Fox? - April 7, 2009
- Steele got something of a bad rap for recent remarks in which he seemed to elevate himself to the status of a head of state. "Look, I like the president personally, even...
- The Irrelevance of Race - April 3, 2009
- Eric Holder, our first African-American attorney general, touched a nerve a few weeks ago when he said we are "essentially a nation of cowards" in our hesitance to...
- Cars, Banks -- and Confusion - March 31, 2009
- Both the credit crunch and the reluctance of consumers to spend what money they have left are the direct result of Wall Street's atrocious misbehavior. Yet the...
- Drugs, Guns and a Reality Check - March 27, 2009
- Our long-running "war on drugs," focusing on the supply side of the equation, has been an utter disaster. Domestically, we've locked up hundreds of thousands of...
- Geithner the Repairman - March 24, 2009
- The grandees of Wall Street have every incentive to do anything they can to bolster Geithner's position, since he's the kindly sheriff who stands between them and...
- Geithner on the Hot Seat - March 20, 2009
- A simpler way of asking the Geithner question is: Does he get it? Does he understand the profound sense of betrayal that so many Americans feel as we learn that...
- A Hand in the Health Debate - March 17, 2009
- All is well. The surgery was on my left hand, and when I woke up in the recovery room it was still attached to my left arm, with all five fingers. More than a week...
- Obama is Right to Pile His Plate High - March 13, 2009
- The banking meltdown is a genuine emergency, to put it mildly. But the worst thing Obama could do would be to allow the baying titans of Wall Street, the...
- Bending the Trajectory Left - March 3, 2009
- You'd think that Republicans who claim to idolize Reagan would recognize what's happening, but they seem oblivious. After Obama gave his prime-time speech to...
- Good Time for a Miracle Worker - February 27, 2009
- After that victory -- his 14th major title, second only to Jack Nicklaus' record 18 -- Woods took eight months off for surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate...
- Won't Get Fooled Again - February 24, 2009
- This week, the Obama administration is set to begin its "stress tests" of major U.S. banks to gauge their fundamental health. Officials clearly want to avoid...
- Sen. Burris's Final Act - February 20, 2009
- Burris is probably in no great legal danger. Unlike Blagojevich, however, he has an admirable, decades-long history as a public servant and an African-American...
- This is a Presidency on Steroids - February 17, 2009
- This week, executives from General Motors and Chrysler are reporting on their progress in transforming themselves into lean, mean car-making machines, capable of...
- Treasury's Salesman-in-Training - February 13, 2009
- What I hope he learned this week is how closely Americans are following the economic crisis and how angry they are. Geithner rose to prominence in the financial world at...
- Roll Over the Republicans - February 10, 2009
- Begin with the most fundamental question: Does the U.S. economy desperately need a massive stimulus, or not? There are economists who doubt it's possible for the...
- When Will Wall Street Get the Message? - February 3, 2009
- The Democrat from Missouri was ranting for the nation last week when she took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the reported $18.4 billion in year-end bonuses...
- Obama's Mandate Could End the GOP - January 30, 2009
- Reagan declared the strike a "peril to national safety" and gave the more than 13,000 air traffic controllers 48 hours to return to work. A few complied. When the...
- Blagojevich is Quite the Talker - January 27, 2009
- Unfortunately for the governor, the Illinois Senate is not bound by the strict rules of evidence and testimony that constrain a criminal court. And even an observer...
- So Much To Be Undone - January 23, 2009
- Obama's campaign pledge to shut down the prison at Guantanamo was unequivocal, and his decree ordering that the place be closed within a year is really just an...
- This Consequential Presidency - January 20, 2009
- The importance of Obama's mind-blowing historical breakthrough can hardly be overstated. Slavery vexed the Founding Fathers; if not for Lincoln's iron...
- Why They're Coming to D.C. - January 16, 2009
- I knew things were getting bad a few weeks ago when I ran into D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his greeting was not to wish me a good morning or ask how I was doing, but...
- Bush is Already History - January 13, 2009
- Has he been paying attention? Did he not notice that both President-elect Barack Obama and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, felt the need to promise to...
- Fifty Years of Fidel - January 2, 2009
- President-elect Obama will have more urgent matters to deal with after he takes the oath of office. But somewhere on his long to-do list, he should make a note to...
- The Year of Madoff - December 30, 2008
- As everyone knows by now, Madoff -- once one of the most respected financiers on Wall Street -- stands accused of being perhaps the biggest swindler in history....
- The Price of Their Security - December 23, 2008
- That terse formulation of the Bush-Cheney apologia leaves out important details. Cheney came into office with preconceived ideas about restoring executive branch powers...