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nytimes.com - 11/9/2008

Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change

— nytimes.com — THE inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president... lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he — and we — must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change

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nytimes.com - 11/7/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Change I Can Believe In

— nytimes.com — I have dreams. I may seem like a boring pundit whose most exotic fantasies involve G.A.O. reports,... but deep down, I have dreams. And right now I’m dreaming of the successful presidency this country needs. I’m dreaming of an administration led by ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Change I Can Believe In

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nytimes.com - 11/9/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the War on Brains

— nytimes.com — Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about... his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual. Maybe, just ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the War on Brains

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — It's Friday, pundits! Times (UK): A Masterclass in Democracy Charles Blow: Let's talk Appalachia. Paul Krugman: But will the election also mark a turning point in the actual substance of policy? Can Barack Obama really usher in a new era of progressive policies? Yes, he can. David Brooks: This election was about the middle asserting itself. The obfuscation is in trying to pretend that the middle is far more right than it really is. Michael Gerson: Let me make ...

Obama's First 100 Days in the White House
AlterNet.org: Environment — ... remarkable week, we're starting to look ahead to the First 100 Days of the Obama presidency. Already, we're hearing calls in the mainstream media warning the new administration "not to overreach." And working overtime, the Inside-the-Beltway Punditocracy continues to reveal its ability to ignore reality -- even while describing itself as "realist" -- with its claims that this is still a center-right nation, despite all evidence to the contrary. But as Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman writes in today's New York Times , "Let's hope that Mr. Obama has the good sense ...

Bipartisanship and the Well Functioning Democracy – Part Two
TalkLeft — ... Paul Krugman argues that the mandate is for “a new era of progressive policies” because “this year’s presidential election was a clear referendum on political philosophies — and the progressive philosophy won.” That is certainly true with regard to the progressive changes that were at the forefront of the election: a tax policy that requires the wealthy to shoulder a greater burden while providing middle class relief; health care reform; investment in the nation’s infrastructure; more robust regulation of the financial industry; ...

Why the Economic Crisis Shouldn't Mean Putting Off Health Care
AlterNet.org: Environment — ... . Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, is on the side of taking action now :"[S]tandard textbook economics says that it's O.K., in fact appropriate, to run temporary deficits in the face of a depressed economy. Meanwhile, one or two years of red ink, while it would add modestly to future federal interest expenses, shouldn't stand in the way of a health care plan that, even if quickly enacted into law, probably wouldn't take effect until 2011."Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and advisor to Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, has said the nation must tackle a variety of ...