Executive Branch

Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda

Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda Yes, He Can: Twenty Ways Obama Can Use Executive Power to Push a Progressive Agenda

From Cuba to climate change to criminal justice, progressives must push the president to act—and forge a better future.

Jan 24, 2013 / Feature / The Editors

Readers Respond: How Should Obama Flex His Executive Muscle? Readers Respond: How Should Obama Flex His Executive Muscle?

Nation readers provided good ideas—and a bit of wariness—when asked how Obamas should use his presidential authority.

Jan 24, 2013 / Feature / The Editors

Twelve Questions Progressives Should Ask Jack Lew

Twelve Questions Progressives Should Ask Jack Lew Twelve Questions Progressives Should Ask Jack Lew

Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary has spent the better part of four decades going back and forth through the revolving door from Washington to Wall Street. Which si...

Jan 10, 2013 / Blog / John Nichols

Tough Questions for John Kerry

Tough Questions for John Kerry Tough Questions for John Kerry

Here are just a few things the Foreign Relations Committee should be asking Obama’s nominee for secretary of state.

Jan 2, 2013 / Editorial / The Editors

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Focus the Secretary of State Debate on Policy, Not Politics Katrina vanden Heuvel: Focus the Secretary of State Debate on Policy, Not Politics

Partisan predictions for the presiden’s nominee have drowned out the real conversation on Obama’s foreign policy priorities. 

Dec 18, 2012 / Nation in the News / Press Room

Questions for John Kerry, President Obama’s New Pick for Secretary of State

Questions for John Kerry, President Obama’s New Pick for Secretary of State Questions for John Kerry, President Obama’s New Pick for Secretary of State

The nomination of a secretary of state gives the Senate the opportunity to probe the administration’s foreign policy priorities.

Dec 18, 2012 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bernanke for Treasury Secretary? Bernanke for Treasury Secretary?

The Fed chairman has been making the case for jobless Americans that normally in the past is made most strenuously by liberal Democrats.

Nov 20, 2012 / Blog / William Greider

The Endless Drone Killing Program The Endless Drone Killing Program

The Washington Post investigative piece is truly frightening. The “Global War on Terror” goes on and on. 

Oct 24, 2012 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss

Neoconjobs Neoconjobs

The Obama administration's quiet reponse to a 2010 bombing in Georgia contrasts with the macho foreign policy vision Mitt demonstrated with his response to riots in the Arab world ...

Sep 13, 2012 / Blog / Eric Alterman

Will Britain’s Libor Scandal Finally Force Real Bank Reform in the US?

Will Britain’s Libor Scandal Finally Force Real Bank Reform in the US? Will Britain’s Libor Scandal Finally Force Real Bank Reform in the US?

The head of the Bank of England now says bankers’ lies about interest rates “meet my definition of fraud.” Will US officials finally crack down?

Jul 17, 2012 / Blog / John Nichols

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