Two weeks into his presidency, George W. Bush appointed vice-president Dick Cheney to chair the National Energy Policy Development Group. Two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama appointed vice-president Joe Biden to chair the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families. Cheney’s task force was charged with developing “a national energy policy designed to help the [...]
Despite a campaign that crossed two years and several continents, right now it is impossible to grasp the full implications of the election of an African-American to this nation’s highest office. The uninformed and uneducated naysayers, and the fear-sowing right-wing commentators who stoked the fires of hatred and ignorance were wrong: We did know enough [...]
With a little luck, and we could use a lot of it right now, four weeks from tonight we will know who will be the next president of these United States. It’s been a long campaign, more than a year, and while, regardless on which horse your money’s riding (assuming you have any left – [...]