Thursday, August 18, 2011

Top Posts on TIME's Swampland: The Next Greatest Generation

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:23 AM PDT

In a way, I’ve been working on this week’s cover story–which sadly resides behind the Time paywall–for the past five years, as I’ve embedded with our troops downrange. Watching them in the field, I’ve noticed that they’ve had to learn some new and unusual skills–skills that are extremely well-suited for public service. We hear a [...]

All The Candidates’ Federal Spending

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:20 AM PDT

Presidential campaigns are all about the future, yet they take place in the present and rest upon the past. A candidate’s record, and performance in debates and on the trail, are what a voter has to go on. So the records of the Republican candidates when it comes to fiscal responsibility matter, especially in a [...]

Obama’s Dizzying August

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:19 AM PDT

In the latest issue of TIME, now available to subscribers on tablets and the web, Republican John E. Sununu argues the debt debate and subsequent S&P downgrade have critically damaged President Obama’s re-election effort, while Mark Halperin makes the case that Rick Perry’s entrance into the presidential race has things looking up for the White [...]

How Democrats Win: Defending the Social Safety Net

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:44 AM PDT

I was flattered to learn from Joe Klein’s Aug. 15 column in TIME that Barack Obama is reading my book Nixonland. The book is about the “separate and irreconcilable fears” over the past 50 years that came to define the increasingly acrimonious cohabitation of Americans on the left and on the right. I assume Obama [...]

Poverty Debate Raises Tension Between Obama and Black Leaders

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 07:58 AM PDT

On Sunday in Memphis, Tavis Smiley, the talk-show host, and Cornel West, the Princeton professor, closed a 16-city bus tour intended to draw attention to some of the rarely discussed aspects of the economic crisis: The poverty rate is 14.3%, the highest since the mid-1990s. A record 45.8 million people receive food stamps. “Poverty and [...]

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