How much difference will the Obama administration make to the recovery of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast?
Tim Fernholz
Tim Fernholz is a former staff writer for the Prospect. His work has been published by Newsweek, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast. He is also a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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HUBERT HUMPHREY WOULDN’T BE PLEASED.
As the stimulus bill and the rest of the new administration’s legislative agenda gets off the ground, we’ve been paying a lot of atention to the senate and its archaic traditions. A more contemporary institutional oddity is that the great state of Minnesota is still lacking a senator, as the strange court battle surrounding the […]
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A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME?
Pakistan has reached an agreement… Pakistan government officials said they struck a deal on Monday to accept a legal system compatible with Shariah law in the violent Swat region in return for peace. The agreement contradicted American demands for the Pakistan authorities to fight harder against militants, and seemed certain to raise fears in Washington […]
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REEFER MADNESS.
Still entrenched in this deeply wonky conference, but had to take a moment to chart just how ridiculous the whole Michael Phelps weed affair has become. To wit: “Mazda Has Michael Phelps Apologize to China” Apparently, if an athlete smokes marijuanna, it’s not enough that he be shamed domestically. No, he has to apologize to […]
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HUD SECRETARY: “IN CRISIS, THERE IS OPPORTUNITY, BUT THERE IS ALSO CRISIS.”
NEW YORK — HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan delivered a wide-ranging speech on the new administration’s housing policy today at New York University. Declining to reveal details of plans to address foreclosures and the mortgage market — “I will not do the president the favor of scooping him on that” — Donovan did observe that the […]
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NOMINATION DRAMA.
In its piece on the Gregg withdrawal, the Times observes: But the political fallout is left to the White House, which now has a string of appointees who have stepped aside over vetting problems, unpaid taxes or philosophical differences with Mr. Obama. Since the president took office last month, not a week has passed without […]
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Department of Change
Obama cannot rely on Cabinet appointments alone to take the country in a new direction. Here are five government offices Obama will need to remake if he is to realize his agenda.
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COMMERCE IS CURSED.
And the dread department claims another victim in N.H. Senator Judd Gregg, who has withdrawn his nomination for the post. Too bad, that was a story I enjoyed. Gregg dropped out, predictably enough, becuase he doesn’t want to rep the stimulus and was insulted, probably rightfully so, that the administration seemed intent on handing over […]
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TALKIN’ ‘BOUT MY GENERATION: STEAL AWAY.
Putting on the old speaking-on-behalf-of-my-generation hat, as a “millennial” I have to take issue with Senator John McCain’s depiction of the economic stimulus package that will finally pass at the end of this week, leaving all of Washington totally exhausted. McCain says the plan is “generational theft. … We are robbing future generations of Americans […]
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ICC TO INDICT BASHIR.
The International Criminal Court is set to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. It is the first game-changing opportunity in the Darfur conflict in some time and a chance for the new administration to articulate its policy in the troubled country. Today, I spoke with John Norris, an […]
