December 29, 2009
New York Times

Op-Ed Contributor
Should Old Articles Be Forgot
By WILLIAM FALK
OVER the past year, Americans have spent an average of 11.8 hours a day consuming information, sucking up, in aggregate, 3.6 zettabytes of data and 10,845 trillion words. That, said the University of California, San Diego, researcher who computed these figures, is triple the [...]

December 28, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Big Zero
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Maybe we knew, at some unconscious, instinctive level, that it would be an era best forgotten. Whatever the reason, we got through the first decade of the new millennium without ever agreeing on what to call it. The aughts? The naughties? Whatever. (Yes, I know that strictly speaking [...]

From The Huffington Post:

Drew Westen
Psychologist and neuroscientist; Emory University Professor
Posted: December 20, 2009 09:34 PM
Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
digg Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us As the president’s job performance numbers and ratings on his handling [...]

December 21, 2009
New York Times

Op-Ed Columnist
A Dangerous Dysfunction
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Unless some legislator pulls off a last-minute double-cross, health care reform will pass the Senate this week. Count me among those who consider this an awesome achievement. It’s a seriously flawed bill, we’ll spend years if not decades fixing it, but it’s nonetheless a huge step [...]

Joe Lieberman and the Health Care Train Wreck
Tuesday 15 December
by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
When last we heard from Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, he was throwing sand into the gears of the Democratic push for health care reform by declaring he would filibuster any [...]

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech: A Just and Lasting Peace
Thursday 10 December 2009
by: Barack Obama, t r u t h o u t | Transcript
Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Oslo, Norway
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive [...]

December 7, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
Cap and Fade
By JAMES HANSEN
AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and [...]

December 7, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
An Affordable Truth
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Maybe I’m naïve, but I’m feeling optimistic about the climate talks starting in Copenhagen on Monday. President Obama now plans to address the conference on its last day, which suggests that the White House expects real progress. It’s also encouraging to see developing countries — including China, the [...]

The Angst of a Liberal
Tuesday 01 December 2009

by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

An old friend of mine, a long-time Democrat and fully credentialed political wizard, wrote me the other day and asked a question I have been asking myself for several months now: what do you [...]