Search Results for: obama

Independent’s Day

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Obama doesn’t want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jul 11, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,622 words)

The Place of Women on the Court

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In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that there was a woman on the Supreme Court.

Published: Jul 7, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,324 words)

The Myth of Prevention

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A doctor explains why it doesn’t pay to stay well. Decoding what works, what falls short in Obama’s plans to reform health care

Published: Jun 20, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,488 words)

The Economy Is Still at the Brink

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We are sympathetic to the extraordinary challenge President Obama faces, but if we’ve learned anything at all two years into the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes, it is that a capital-markets system this dependent on public confidence is a shockingly inadequate foundation upon which to rest our economy.

Published: Jun 7, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,828 words)

Taking the Hill

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Sometime in the next few weeks, Congress and the White House will descend into the labyrinthine politics of comprehensive health care reform. For Barack Obama, this signals the end, in a sense, of the eventful prologue to his presidency.

Author: Matt Bai
Published: Jun 2, 2009
Length: 32 minutes (8,208 words)

America’s Islam Anxiety in Egypt and Beyond: Exclusive Excerpt

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On the eve of President Obama’s speech on the subject of his new book, Engaging the Muslim World, a leading historian and influential blogger offers an in-depth breakdown of Muslim activism and Muslim radicalism.

Author: Juan Cole
Source: Esquire
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,882 words)

As Cheney Seizes Spotlight, Many Republicans Wince

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His running argument with the Obama administration has spawned a noisy side debate all its own: By leading the criticism, is Cheney doing more harm than good to the causes he has taken up and to the political well-being of his party?

Author: Dan Balz
Source: Washington Post
Published: May 14, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,294 words)

How We Tested the Big Banks

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This afternoon, Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve will announce the results of an unprecedented review of the capital position of the nation’s largest banks. This will be an important step forward in President Obama’s program to help repair the financial system, restore the flow of credit and put our nation on the path to economic recovery.

Published: May 6, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,087 words)

Plug-In Hybrids: More Hype Than Hope?

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Having racked up some 17,000 miles, the plug-in Prius hybrids are averaging just 51 mpg. That’s raising uncomfortable questions about the value and effectiveness of plug-in technology, even as President Obama pledges to have 1 million of them on the road by 2015.

Source: Wired
Published: May 6, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,741 words)

Nudge-ocracy

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Barack Obama’s new theory of the state.

Published: May 6, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,461 words)