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 [...]
The New York Times, evidently proud of its Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman and today’s announcement naming him the Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, decided to wake me up with this information at 7:00 AM with a “News Alert” text message. I’m a big fan of Paul Krugman, text messages, and the New York Times, but not [...]