So What If Obama Fails?
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
The "Obama making mistakes" narrative is at fever pitch, but even if his health-care plan falters, Matthew Yglesias says, we shouldn't consider the president a failure. Our system makes reform almost impossible.
All Talk, No Action
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
As Obama returns to the Oval Office today, conservatives are deriding his trip abroad as an "apology tour." But The Daily Beast's Matthew Yglesias says the president let down the left, as well.
GOP's Torture Tricks Backfire
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Republicans might think they're being clever by drawing Nancy Pelosi into the torture controversy. But as Daily Beast columnist Matthew Yglesias argues, they're playing right into Democrats' hands.
Obama's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Hypocrisy
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Another gay officer was dismissed last week because of a policy Obama says he opposes. So why is the president too timid to do anything about it?
Hooray for Obama's 'Socialist' Budget
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
As the GOP slams Obama's new budget for turning us all into welfare-mad Europeans, Daily Beast columnist Matthew Yglesias asks: What's so wrong with that?
100 Days Report Card
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How's Obama doing so far? The Daily Beast's all-star team of analysts, from Christopher Buckley to Paul Begala, Sean Wilentz to Rep. Peter King, weigh in.
Republicans Acting Like Swine
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
No wonder Specter left the party. The flu pandemic reveals the GOP's reckless strategy to undermine basic operations of government by holding up Obama's appointees.
Obama's Frenemies
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
As debate erupts on the Web over Obama's visit with Chavez-was it an embrace or a blowoff?-Matthew Yglesias says that everyone's missing the point: the more photo ops with our "enemies," the better.
Don't Chase the Pirates
Matthew Yglesias is a Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He is the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.
Current talk of invading Somalia ignores our role in causing the chaos.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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