Obama: Rhetoric or New Direction?
![]() | Will Obama Use International Economic Appointments to Push Stimulus? | |
| Gerald Epstein: Obama can't use GOP Control of House as excuse for more Wall St. friendly appointments | ||
![]() | Brennan Hearings: Who's Overseeing Who? | |
| Ray McGovern: Hearing exposes how little oversight the Senate Intelligence Committee exercises over the CIA | ||
![]() | Hagel and Fracture Lines in the GOP | |
| Matt Welch: Libertarian Republicans like Rand Paul are closer to Hagel on foreign policy than they are to neo-cons like McCain and Graham | ||
![]() | Preaching to the Choir | |
| Jeff Cohen: Illusions about Obama and the myth of the need for
bipartisanship are reasons why progressives and liberals must have a
vigorous debate - there really is no choir | ||
![]() | Lack of Criminal Prosecutions Linked to Obama and Holder's Wall St. Connections | |
| Dimitri Lascaris: Department of Justice under George Bush secured convictions of major figures from the business community in complex financial frauds and Obama and Holder have not done so following the worst epidemic of financial fraud in the modern era | ||
![]() | Obama Admin. Fails to Prosecute Banking Fraud to 'Save the System' | |
| James S. Henry commenting on PBS documentary "The Untouchables": If one of these institutions was indicted and made an example of, it would have a profound affect on the whole industry - but Obama raises money on Wall St. | ||
![]() | Obama: Rhetoric or New Direction? | |
| James K. Galbraith: The positions taken in the Inaugural Address suggest a more serious approach to climate change and a defense of social programs | ||
![]() | The Case Against Kerry | |
| Stephen Zunes tracks the history of John Kerry from Vietnam War critic to Iraq war hawk | ||
![]() | What Obama Should Do in the Next Four Years | |
| Robert Johnson outlines what the President should do if his Inaugural Address is not just empty rhetoric | ||
![]() | Obama Speech Rings a Different Tone | |
| John Nichols: The President is not a progressive, but speech promises a more reformist stand | ||
![]() | Three Things Obama Can Do if he is Serious About Promise to Middle Class | |
| Bob Pollin: The President still perpetuates myth there is a fiscal crisis | ||
![]() | If I Were Attorney General | |
| Michael Ratner outlines 10 things he would do if he were Attorney General in the new Obama Administration | ||