Analysis: Do blacks want to transcend race?
A television host’s five little words in reference to Barack Obama — “I forgot he was black” — have exposed a contradiction in the idea of a post-racial nation.
Analysis: Humbled Obama checks boxes
President Barack Obama checked every political box needed to restart his troubled presidency, but that may not be enough to consider his State of Union address a success.
Analysis: Paring back health care not so easy
Trimming back the 2,000-page, trillion-dollar Democratic health care bills to the parts that average folks understand and like may not be as simple as it sounds.
The Economist on “Glass-Steagall lite”
I thought this concise analysis by The Economist was one of the best things I have read on Obama’s new banking proposals.
Allow me a quibble over nomenclature (ie, the politics). To have this plan referred to as any kind of Glass-Steagall–&…
Analysis: More campaign ads — and maybe confusion
There’ll be a lot more special-interest money in political campaigns. And maybe even more confusion for voters trying to sort out who is behind the increasing clamor of TV messages.