Recent moves on foreign policy may make it easier for the new White House to pick up where the old one left off in key areas: Iraq, North Korea, Iran and Cuba. Domestic policy is a different story.
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A Friendly Transition On Foreign Affairs
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 4:55pm EST
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Age Of American Consumerism May Be Over
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 4:54pm EST
The current hard times for the economy also mean hard times for the great American value of consumerism. Nowhere is the blow to consumption more evident than in the auto industry.
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Long Presidential Transition Causes Problems
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 5:42pm EST
President-elect Obama is under unusual pressure during this period of transition. There is worldwide interest in U.S. action to alleviate the economic crisis, and already Obama has received phone calls urging him to act.
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Change Has Come
Posted: November 9th, 2008, 1:46pm EST
We all knew that someday there would be an African-American in the Oval Office, but we didn't know when. And when it happened, suddenly America was a changed place.
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Warm Global Welcome For Obama
Posted: November 7th, 2008, 2:26pm EST
There has been an almost-universal chorus of welcome for president-elect Barack Obama. Seldom has a new president taken office with such a wide-open mandate to repair America's alliances and friendships.
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New President Will Have To Tackle Deflation
Posted: November 4th, 2008, 4:48pm EST
To the conventional list of challenges facing the new president — from Guantanamo to global warming — add a new one: the threat of deflation. The last time this country experienced large-scale deflation was in the Great Depression. Now, global prices are falling.
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It May Be Time To Move Up Inauguration Day
Posted: November 2nd, 2008, 11:08am EST
Hard to imagine, but in the horse-and-buggy days of our republic, the president was not inaugurated until March. In the 1930s, Congress advanced the inauguration date to Jan. 20. But is even this too long a wait in a world full of challenges to the new president?
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Voters Have Backed One-Party Rule In The Past
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 4:21pm EDT
Polls suggest that after the elections, Democrats will control the White House and both houses of Congress. Sen. John McCain has expressed concern over one-party rule. Yet, especially in times of crisis, American voters have chosen to give power to a single party.
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For Iraq, U.S. Election Marks Fresh Start
Posted: October 26th, 2008, 1:00pm EDT
Iraqi leaders, having written off the Bush administration, are presumably counting on the election of Sen. Barack Obama, who has shown willingness to accept a timetable for withdrawal of American troops.
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Economic Summit Could be Short On Substance
Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 4:36pm EDT
World leaders will meet in the U.S. next month for a summit examining the global financial crisis. President Bush will host the gathering. The president's lame-duck status means it will likely be superficial rather than substantive.