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With Obama pressing his case, Politico details a counter-argument: The language used to make the case for stimulus is stark and gloomy — and, by all measures, pretty accurate. But there is also a caveat attached to every solution proposed: that it simply...
Social-networking and other forms of new media played an important role in the Obama campaign. The NYT today looks at what might be ahead for the "Obama movement," or what it calls a YouTube presidency : His aides — including his campaign manager...
Steven Stark has a good read on how the Obama administration has the biggest collection of brainpower since the long-gone days of JFK -- and how that carries its own risks. [I]t's worth remembering how radical a change this is in our political life...
Some social observers have long complained that too many Americans function more as consumers than citizens. There's plenty of blame for this to go around, including our excessive shopping culture, a news media that focus more on fluff than real issues...
Although the inauguration day spread at the Scituate home of longtime liberal political activist Kate Coyne-McCoy included an array of frittatas, grilled sausages, roast potatoes, and Champagne, the main sustenance for a like-minded group of about dozen...
You can find them here on the Phoenix Web site . I'm heading out a little later to cover one of the local inaug-watches in RI, and will report back later.
Whether it's the inauguration at hand, the optimism that Americans feel even in the midst of economic crisis, or any number of other things (like O's status as a guy who digs words ), these are remarkable days. Imagine how MLK Jr. would feel....
Those looking for big, sweeping changes from the man soon to be our next president may want to consider the following. Writing today in the New York Times Book Review, history professor Alan Brinkley takes note of how the American economy, about 35 years...
Here's a rundown on some of the inauguration watch events taking place next Tuesday, January 20. I'll post others if I receive word of them. AG and early Obama supporter Patrick Lynch : In celebration of Barack Obama being sworn in as the 44th...
As we know, there were lots of dubious claims cast against Obama during the bygone presidential election. Such talk has mostly dissipated, perhaps because of the largely centrist course pursued by the president-elect in the run-up to his inauguration...
Even before Obama's inauguration, a view is emerging among a number of progressives that the president-elect goes too far in trying to be all things to all people. US Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, never one to mince words, airs this...
Mark Weiner, the prodigious Democratic fundraiser and Clinton confidante, and his wife have combined to donate $100,000 , the maximum allowable, for Obama's inauguration. Steven Stycos reports in this week's Phoenix. Obama set the strictest limits...
Providence City Solicitor Joseph Fernandez isn't allowing his nascent 2010 campaign for AG to completely cast away the possibility of working in the Obama administration. Last Friday, during a taping for next Sunday's broadcast of WPRI/WNAC-TV's...
Obama's inauguration remains weeks away, but discontent about the direction of his administration is already simmering among some of his liberal supporters. Deirdre Fulton and Jeff Inglis, two of my colleagues at the Portland Phoenix, write about...
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