Cabinet Appointments

Salazar at the Interior Department: So Much at Stake

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green


Frances Beinecke

As Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar has to send a powerful signal that the era of unethical behavior and unchecked industry influence is over.

Change Can Be Scary

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


Aram Khayatpour

Bush's cabinets were an array of lobbyists, partisan hardliners, and warmongers. There was no one to expand ideas or bring a different perspective, just a bunch of yes men.

David Brooks Made Me Wring My Hands: Obama and His Education Secretary Pick

Dan Brown | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media


Dan Brown

In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.

Obama Right to Reassure Wall Street Markets With Rubinauts But Also Needs Econ Advisors Who Stand for Main Street

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics


Miles Mogulescu

We can only hope that Obama balances the smart Rubinauts whom he has picked to lead his economic team with some equally smart pro-Main Street economic minds.

From the Office of the President-Elect, PEOTUS

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


Jennifer Donahue

The control the Obama campaign and now transition have demonstrated over the media is as sophisticated and as groundbreaking as Lee Atwater's use of multimedia developments for Richard Nixon.

Obama Appointments: Time for a Coal-Onoscopy

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green


Jeff Biggers

If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.

Can President Obama Save the Environment?

Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.17.2008 | Green


Steve Fleischli

President Bush has left a regulatory wasteland in his wake these last eight years, and it won't be easy for President Obama to undo all of the Bush ro...

Sam Stein

Tammy Duckworth Being Pushed For Veterans Affairs Secretary

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


A grassroots effort is underway for Barack Obama to appoint Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq War and onetime congressional candidate, as Secreta...

What A President Obama's Cabinet Might Look Like?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics


Mark Nickolas

Here is one Democrat's assessment of who might be seated around the Cabinet Room table shortly after January 20, 2009 if Obama is elected president.

Why Obama Should Announce Key Cabinet Members When He Announces His VP Choice

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics


Thomas de Zengotita

Putting Obama at the center of a team of rivals, all of them familiar, even venerable, pieces of political furniture would dampen the he's-not-one-of-us factor that is still his greatest danger.

Sam Stein

Author Lashes Out At Romney's Explanation Of Anti-Muslim Rant

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics


The author of a much-discussed op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor -- which charged that former Gov. Mitt Romney said he would likely not appoint a...