Barack Obama Presidential Transition

A Masculine Stimulus Package: Where Are the Jobs for Women?

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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In attempting to craft a stimulus package... more consideration should be given to the everyday realities of working people, particularly single women heads of households.

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Keeping Track of Change
(It Takes More Than Hope)

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

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Let us not forget that it was Obama himself who invited each of us to fulfill our end of the contract between citizen and president in an historic effort to bring about change.

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Don't Tell William Langewiesche to "Have a Safe Flight" (and Other Ways to Avoid Self-Destruction in the War on Terror)

David Quigg | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Langewiesche thinks we are probably too scared for a president to reason with us -- about terrorism, about our self-defeating wish for total safety. I'm not so sure.

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Barack: Talk To Us Like Grownups About Terrorism and Save Us From Ourselves

David Quigg | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

When we let shock or panic or a lust for vengeance guide us, we are a greater danger to ourselves than terrorists ever could be. Any terrorists. With any weapon.

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After the (Grand Old) Party: Don't Go Home Just Yet

Shahid Buttar | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

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If the crowds celebrating Obama's victory go home in 2009, his Administration will achieve disappointing results. The President-Elect will confront a variety of national and global crises.

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Bush and Obama: What Really (Might Have) Happened

James Rotondi | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

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"Yo, Barackulator -- you want a brew?" President-Elect Barack Obama looked up at George W. Bush, the lame-duck 43rd President of the United States, w...

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Obama Is Hiring: Job Change You Can Believe In

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

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Now that the election is over, campaign staffers, like some 2.8 million Americans, find themselves out of a job. What are their options?

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Did We Really Think Barack Obama's "Change" Meant No Insider Experience?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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The reality is setting in this week that the change movement generated by Barack Obama does not mean that everything and everybody is going to be new.

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Transitioning the Obama Movement

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

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The newly politically engaged youth -- groomed in an election campaign but not fashioned as a standing political force -- will be at loss as to what they can do.

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Why We All Ought To Read The Book President-Elect Obama Has Been Reading

David Quigg | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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The second-best news I heard during these last few historic days didn't make tears stream like the moment Obama soared above 270, didn't cause me to g...

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NOW President Questions Summers As Treasury Secretary

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Since Barack Obama has signaled that his transition team will move quickly, it shouldn't come as a surprise that advocacy organizations are acting jus...

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What Obama's Victory Could Mean For Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama will take office facing economic collapse and wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan - a situation which could present him with an opportunity...

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When I Worked at the White House: Advice on the Transition

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

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The utter and complete failure of the Bush Administration will make the upcoming transition to an Obama presidency even more challenging than usual.

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Why Obama Should Be President

Lanny Davis | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

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Mr. Obama has, in my judgment, crossed the threshold of plausibility and credibility as both president and commander in chief.

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Journalists Continue To Struggle With Basic Facts Of Presidential Transition

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Robert Pear has a process story in yesterday's New York Times that describes the Presidential transition process that's ongoing for both the McCain an...

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Massive Reorganization Awaits Next President

Paul C. Light | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

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Everybody involved in policy right now thinks their issue is the most important next year, so the president-elect will have to decide what comes first. If he throws everything at Congress at once, he's going to get nothing.

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McCain's Presidential Transition Gaffe

Paul C. Light | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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The question is not why Obama has made the decision to launch a transition planning operation, but why Sen. John McCain has not. McCain assumes the presidential appointments process will somehow bend to his will.

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Obama Team Starts Work On Presidential Transition

Marc Ambinder | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation's 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning...

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