Tag Archives: obama

Debt on Frontline

This is a great hour-long program about the rapidly rising US national debt. It’s a compelling description of how we got to where we are.
It may not be of as much interest to those not holding US passports or green cards.

Glaeser on Infrastructure

Great article by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser in the Boston Globe on infrastructure spending. He reminds us that Barack Obama is the first urban President since Teddy Roosevelt. Quoted:
Per capita transportation spending in the House stimulus package, including transit, is more than 50 percent higher in the 10 least dense states than in the 10 [...]

Managing your Obama Expectations from Jay Smooth

Another prescient Ill Doctrine post on the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election.

 

How Obama Won

Great piece in the New Yorker this week by Ryan Lizza on how Obama won.
It is already being said by the great army of bloggers and commentators that the Obama campaign was the best-run in modern history. Much the same thing was said about James Carville’s work for Bill Clinton in 1992 and Karl Rove’s [...]

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