Matthew C. Whitaker: Change Blossoming in the "Age of Obama"
Matthew C. Whitaker is an ASU Foundation professor of history and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University.Time magazine recently announced the...
View ArticleCongress Needs to Lead on the Budget, Not the President
Speaker John Boehner in front of the U.S. Capitol in late January. Credit: Flickr/SpeakerBoehner.In the political posturing and finger-pointing taking place regarding the “sequester,” the first victim...
View ArticleA. Scott Berg: Wilson to Obama: March Forth!
A. Scott Berg is a biographer and the author of the forthcoming book “Wilson.”“THERE has been a change of government,” declared Woodrow Wilson in his first sentence as president of the United States,...
View ArticleJulian Zelizer: Health Care Will Be an Obama Legacy
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America."(CNN) -- The politics of health care is changing fast....
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Transparency, Obama's Channelling His Inner Nixon
Cross-posted from Balkinization.The Boston Globe reported that the president withheld a widely sought white paper “fearing it would only intensify congressional criticism, government sources say.”*This...
View ArticleVictor Davis Hanson: Who Will Bell America?
NRO contributorVictor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His The Savior Generals will appear in the spring from Bloomsbury Books.Remember the medieval fable about the mice that...
View ArticleObama visits Yad Vashem
JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama on Friday pledged that with the “survival” of Israel, “the Holocaust will never happen again.”“Here on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear,”...
View ArticleObama to Name New National Monuments
President Obama, who has been criticized for favoring oil and gas development over land conservation in his first term, on Monday will designate five new national monuments, according to officials...
View ArticleMary L. Dudziak: Obama’s Nixonian Precedent
Mary L. Dudziak, a professor of law and director of the Project on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society at Emory University, is the author of “War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its...
View ArticleThe President, in Israel, Giveth and Taketh Away
Author: Ira Chernus Barack Obama and John Kerry at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Credit: U.S. State Department.The real Barack Obama was clearly on display in his quick trip to Israel and...
View ArticleRon Radosh: Why Conservatives Should be Critical of Obama’s Middle Eastern...
Ron Radosh is a PJ Media columnist and Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute.I, along with other supporters of Israel, have for the past few years rightfully been critical of President Obama and his...
View ArticleRoss Douthat: The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War
Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times.WHEN prominent people in Washington spend an anniversary apologizing for being catastrophically, unforgivably wrong about a decade-old decision, you...
View ArticleRepublicans critical of Obama national monuments bill amid sequester cuts
Congressional Republicans have condemned Barack Obama for designating five new national monuments at a time when sequester funding cuts are hitting existing national parks and landmarks.Doc Hastings,...
View ArticlePresident Barack Obama: The First Draft of History
The following is excerpted from The American President by Kathryn Moore, published by Barnes & Noble Books in 2013 (678 pages, $19.95). It covers the life of Barack H. Obama and his presidency...
View ArticleObama's Middle East Tightrope
Image viaShutterstock.Originally posted on TomDispatch.comAuthor: Ira Chernus Bio: 4-1-13Ira Chernus is a TomDispatch regular and professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at...
View ArticleHistorian Robert Caro: Today's Conservative Media "Quite Horrible" And Venomous
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert Caro criticized conservative media coverage of President Obama during an appearance in New York City, describing it as "something quite horrible" and...
View ArticleDoug Bandow: Obama Didn't Lose Iraq
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and the author of several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global...
View ArticleWhy the Bush Library won't make history
Will history judge George W. Bush more kindly than his contemporaries have?The man himself seems fairly indifferent."I don't think he really cares much at all, to be honest with you," says Kevin...
View ArticleLiberals: Stop Making Excuses for Obama
Credit: Obama for America.Cross-posted from Balkanization.Sandy Levinson took Maureen Dowd to task for her column last week, “No Bully in the Pulpit,” which criticized President Obama for failing to...
View ArticleOver 100 Holocaust scholars urge Obama: Cancel invite to Sudan delegation
Washington, D.C. - One hundred and seven leading Holocaust and genocide scholars from around the world have sent a letter of protest to President Obama, urging him to cancel a planned visit to the...
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