What Change Sounds Like
Jan 20, 2015 The rumblings you are hearing from the right are the sounds of an old consensus in the process of disintegrating.
Jeb Bush’s Optimism School
Apr 17, 2014 The Republican Party faces a long-term challenge in presidential elections because it is defining itself as a gloomy enclave, a collection of pessimists who fear what our country is becoming and where it is going.
Turkish Government Accused of Defying ‘International Human Rights’ in Its Fight Against Protesters
Jan 22, 2014 Medics and human rights groups are calling out the Turkish government for intimidation against street protesters as new legislation criminalizes the use of urgent assistance.
Year Six of Hope and Change
Jan 21, 2014 It was a bittersweet briefing that told us exactly where the Obama administration finds itself at the dawn of its sixth year.
The Manifesto and New Morality of the 9/11 Mastermind
Jan 15, 2014 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as the mastermind of 9/11, has released a new manifesto and allegedly come into a new way of thinking and believing.
How America Became a Third World Country: 2013-2023
May 22, 2013 The streets are much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. It’s 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect.
Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
May 21, 2013 If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly.
The Democratic National Convention Day 3: Recapping President Obama’s Speech
Sep 7, 2012 President Obama invoked "hope" and "change" in his DNC speech, but not in the same way he did in 2008. Instead, he presented a more subdued and realistic view of what his second term in office would look like if he is re-elected in November while trying to show Americans they are better off today than they were four years ago. President Obama invoked "hope" and "change" in his speech, but not like he did in 2008.
Obama’s Re-Election Campaign Begins
May 6, 2012 In an effort to improve upon the 2008 slogans of “Hope” and “Change,” the Obama campaign insisted before an Ohio audience Saturday that the president would take the country “Forward” if voters (and corporate sponsors) elected him to four more years in the White House.
Obama Dials Down the Campaign Rhetoric
Feb 22, 2012 The whole "hope" thing is a little much, and the "change" bit is played out, so however will Barack Obama spin his slogans for this presidential campaign as the embattled incumbent? Let's call it American Dream Lite, if you will.
