An amazing image of Tamil Nadu in India from the National Geographic
When Will the Recession be Over? from Op-Ed Contributors to the New York Times
"When can we expect to see the economy turn around? The Op-Ed editors asked 11 experts to hazard a guess."
Franklin Delano Obama (Nicholas Kristof) from the New York Times
"Most presidents are tacticians, but President Obama is a strategist. His budget suggests that he aspires to be an echo of Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, harnessing his charisma, vision and political capital to transport America to a different place."
America's New Shrink (Jonathan Alter) from Newsweek
This is a SPOT-ON examination of what Obama is bringing to the recovery fights to come.
"My take on Obama, based on conversations with him and his team stretching back more than four years and extending into the White House, is that he has a firm grasp of the psychological and substantive challenges of the presidency. Equally important, his 2008 campaign proved that he possesses a superior sense of timing."
Budget Gamble: Why Obama Went Big from Politico
"The latest theme of pundit commentary on the Obama administration is overload."
Climate of Change (Paul Krugman) from the New York Times
"Elections have consequences. President Obama’s new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years. If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course."
Banking on the Brink (Paul Krugman) from the New York Times
"Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy’s commanding heights."
Obama: A Leader in the House (David Corn) from Mother Jones
"An organized mind at work is a wonderful thing to watch. During his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama placed the mind of his presidency on display, and it was wonderfully organized."
Paging Uncle Sam (Thomas Friedman) from the New York Times
"For all the talk in recent years about America’s inevitable decline, all eyes are not now on Tokyo, Beijing, Brussels or Moscow — nor on any other pretenders to the world heavyweight crown. All eyes are on Washington to pull the world out of its economic tailspin."
The Transformation of Transportation from the Boston Globe
"IN THE half-month since the Senate nearly slashed mass transit from the stimulus bill, yet more locales broke ridership records from coast to coast."
Obama Plots Huge Railroad Expansion from Politico
"Railroads made Chicago, and now a Chicago-rich White House wants to return the favor: remaking rail with a huge new federal investment in high-speed passenger trains."
End of the Magic Show (Eugene Robinson) from the Washington Post
"It's reaching the point where desperate measures -- brutal honesty and complete transparency -- may be the only way to bring the economy out of its kamikaze dive. If so, this won't be pretty."
A Speech that Defines a New Era (Michael Tomasky) from the Guardian [of London]
"This may be remembered, among other things, as the night America went British."
Newt. Again. (Matt Bai) from the New York Times Magazine
"These days, to hear Republicans tell it, the conservative movement’s intellectual and strategic thunderbolts seem to be emanating, instead, from an undistinguished box of a building on K Street, amid the city’s famed corridor of lobbyists. In unmarked office suites scattered across separate floors, some 35 employees divide their duties among a consulting group, two insurgent policy centers, a documentary-film production company and a public-relations firm with only one client: Newt."
Be Wonkish and Dress Down from the Guardian [of London]
"How Gordon Brown Can Click with Obama."
First Chores? You Bet from the New York Times
"CONSIDER the perils of parenting in the White House."
BOOK NUGGET!
An interesting review of The Day Wall Street Exploded:A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror from the New York Times
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