News in the Future Tense
What a great attention-grabber. Dated July 4, 2009, the lead story in the edition of The New York Times handed out to commuters in New York City yesterday morning trumpeted […]
After Nov. 4: Bringing It All Back Home
Interviewed on “The Takeaway” this morning, Emory University psychology professor Drew Westen, author of The Political Brain, had this to say about how President-elect Barack Obama can deliver on his […]
They Heard the News Today
My first email of the first day after the election of Barack Obama as president came from Serbia. Its sender is a longtime colleague, a Serbian journalist I met right […]
The Vote Rocked Me
I arrived at my polling place this morning, not knowing what kind of scene to expect. After days of TV images of snaking lines, hours long, in early voting states, […]
Frayed Democratic Fabric? Try Tissue of Lies
In his post today on Rooflines, my colleague Matthew Hersh lays out the “What If” scenarios aswirl in the zeitgeist in the weeks leading up to the election. With the […]
Lions and Lambs or Vultures: Who’ll Prevail?
The House Financial Services Committee met this morning to begin, ever so tentatively, to redraw the regulatory landscape for the financial services industry in the wake of the nation’s economic […]
McCain’s Nashville Flatline
John McCain’s newly unveiled idea — a buyout of “bad mortgages” to the tune of $300 million — left a lot of viewers bemused about his ideological shape-shifting, and many […]
McCain’s Bad-Mortgage Buyout
The second presidential debate just ended. John McCain threw out a new policy proposal tonight that came as a surprise: He announced that he’d direct the Treasury Department to buy […]
Left Behind by the “Rescue”
At week’s end, there’s not much good news, but instead a world of pain to report. As of today, Americans have a “rescue plan” that doesn’t rescue millions of people […]
Does HUD’s “Hope” Float?
Today’s New York Times editorial titled “Show Us the Hope” slams the inadequacies of both the Bush administration’s and Congress’s attention to the plight of homeowners caught in the foreclosure […]
Disappearing Ink: Why No Coverage of the Demonstrations?
CNN this morning reported that grass-roots groups are organizing demonstrations across the country against what they’re calling the Bush administration’s “cash for trash” bailout plan. According to today’s Boston Globe, […]
Congress Can’t Give House Room to Paulson’s Section 8
Listening to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson testify before the Senate Banking Committee, I’m marveling at his insistence to Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, former HUD secretary, that “I welcome […]