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Obama's Legacy Is Our Leverage (Political Figures, Election 2012)

If he wins, he must use his platform and powers to tackle issues from global warming to nuclear arms control.

Tom Hayden
Occupy Wall Street
A Politics of Love (Barack Obama, Healthcare Policy, Social Justice, Ethical Economics, Election 2012)

In this election and after, we need to write a new story for our changing nation that places care and connection at the center.

Ai-jen Poo
Barack Obama
Re-elect Obama—but Reject His Austerity (Barack Obama, Economic Policy, Election 2012)

In the contest that comes after November, Obama will be on the wrong team.

Robert L. Borosage
Time to Rewire (Barack Obama, Conservatives and the American Right, Election 2012, The Left)

A Romney presidency would rob progressive movements of the oxygen required to grow deeper and broader roots.

Ilyse Hogue
Obama Against the World (Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Election 2012)

Forget Mitt Romney. With the foreign policy crisis in the Middle East, can the president make it to November 7?

Tom Engelhardt
The C-Word (Barack Obama, Climate Change, Environmental Issues)

But does his DNC speech signal that Obama will now champion the climate fight? Or was he just telling the Democratic base what they wanted to hear?

Mark Hertsgaard
Bill Clinton: The Great Deregulator (Bill Clinton, Economic Policy, Politics)

Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Robert Scheer
Howard Dean: The Case for Obama (Barack Obama, Election 2012, Politics)

The former DNC chair predicts an Obama victory, says the future of the Supreme Court at stake.

The Nation
Protesters
How the Gun Industry Got Rich Stoking Fear About Obama (Barack Obama, Guns and Gun Control, Election 2012, The Constitution)

The NRA’s dire warnings that the president is a threat to the Second Amendment are bogus—but profitable.

Jarrett Murphy
Ari Berman: Can Obama Win in North Carolina, Again? (Barack Obama, States, Election 2012)

The state that Obama won in 2008 is far from a sure thing this time around.

Francis Reynolds

Blogs

Obama, Iran and Iraq
Bob Dreyfuss

The fates of Iran and Iraq are inextricably linked. But Obama doesn't seem to get it.

March 5, 2010
Romney on Palin: "Be Careful... She Has a Rifle"
John Nichols

Former Massachusetts governor yucks it up at a rival's expense with Letterman. But his real laugh lines are about health care costs.

March 3, 2010
So Long Harold (Don't Call)
The Notion

 Harold Ford was the best thing that ever happened to Kirsten Gillibrand.

March 2, 2010
"The President's Plan": No Public Option, Lots of Compromise
John Nichols

For more than a year, President Obama remained on the sidelines of the health care debate -- chiming in now and again with sometimes-inspired, sometimes-disappointing rhetoric about broad values while members of Congress did the heavy lifting.

February 22, 2010
President Palin? Don't Make Hillary Clinton Laugh
John Nichols

America will have a woman president. But it is not likely that the first one will be Sarah Palin.

February 16, 2010
Dick Cheney: Gay Rights Champion
John Nichols

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has never been as comfortable fighting the culture wars as most conservatives, has endorsed the repeal of the Pentagon's failed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" experiment. This is rather a big deal.

February 14, 2010
Welcome to Palinland
Katrina vanden Heuvel

With a nod to Rick Perlstein, Welcome to Palinland. Atop Palinland's Mount Rushmore are Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. Palinland's Bill of Rights has been edited and redacted, reordered and revised with red ink: in Palinland, the Fifth and Sixth Amendments that ensure due process and the rights of the accused are merely suggestive measures to be administered based on the emotional whim of a carefully-harnessed fear and a fervently-stoked anger. And in Palinland, the Tenth Amendment's reservation of power for the individual states is paramount, a necessary protection for a people whose government is supposedly hell-bent on destroying them.

February 7, 2010
Sarah Says It's "Absurd Not to Consider" A Palin Presidency
John Nichols

Sarah Palin fed the Teapartisans in Nashville an appetizer of warmed over one-liners about taxes, spending and deficits that add up to "generational theft." Then she gave the meat eaters what they paid for.

February 7, 2010
New Effort Calls on Obama & GOP to Re-Up on Question Sessions
The Notion

President Obama has labored to unite different political factions with policy compromises and conciliatory speeches. But it was Obama's incisive grappling at the Republican retreat last week that really lit a bipartisan fire, drawing politicos and commentators of all stripes to call for more questions sessions for the President and the opposition party.

February 3, 2010
Noting Setbacks, Plouffe Returns in New Obama Video
The Notion

David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager who was recently tapped for an "expanded role" advising the White House, just cut a video briefing Obama supporters on plans for the coming election year.

February 2, 2010
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