Commentary

By Damir Marusic • Jan 20,2009

Post-Blogging The Transcript

No, you’re right, I am hopelessly cynical and contrarian. So much so that not only did I not take a few hours off of work to go hang out on...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 20,2009

I’m working from home today–journalists don’t take days off! Snow, rain, inaugurations, traffic jams…none of these things stop us!–so I don’t have any flowery prose celebrating the inauguration of Barack...

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2009

Inaugurals Through History

Barack Obama is thinking of the words of Abraham Lincoln. The President-Elect recently told ABC that “Every time you read that Second Inaugural, you start getting intimidated.” (Lincoln’s First Inaugural...

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2009

New head of policy planning

Word is that Anne-Marie Slaughter is going to be tapped by Secretary Clinton. I was familiar with her basic resume but I must say my jaw kinda hit the floor...

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2009

Holly Golightly vs Carrie Bradshaw

After a recent viewing of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, it was pointed out to me what an influence it must have had on Sex and the City. On thinking it over,...

By David Donadio • Jan 20,2009

More change between Bush's terms than between Bush and Obama?

In an eloquent piece in the latest issue of Foreign Policy, Chris Brose makes the best case yet that George W. Bush laid the foundations of a solid foreign policy...

Post-Blogging The Transcript

Inaugural post

Inaugurals Through History

New head of policy planning

Holly Golightly vs Carrie Bradshaw

More change between Bush's terms than between Bush and Obama?