Articles Written by:    TOBIN HARSHAW     

The Opinionator: Static Over Right Wing Radio

Just this morning, I reported that Sen. Debbie Stabenow has backed off on the idea of holding hearings for radio accountability, something she discussed last week with liberal radio host Bill Press (leading to an uproar on conservative talk radio over ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  12 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Tom Harkin,  Debbie Stabenow,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dick Durbin,  Barack Obama

The Opinionator: Geithner's Way

The Timesmen lay out the basics of what Geithner has in mind: The creation of a joint Treasury and Federal Reserve program, at an initial cost of $250 billion to $500 billion, to encourage investors to acquire soured mortgage-related assets from banks. ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  10 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  FDIC

The Opinionator: Fear of a New New Deal

another one sided liberal view! He has Sanford pegged. Sandford has his own agenda and has not let the state of the state or reality intrude on his opinions. There was a faction of us in sc that wanted him to be the GOP vice presidential contender. ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  9 Feb 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Terry Sanford,  Mark Sanford,  Haley Barbour

The Opinionator: Weekend Opinionator: Dead Right?

Now, the Opinionator doesn’t claim any special political prescience, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the turnover of 100 or so jobs at party headquarters is going to bring the G.O.P.’ers back in from the desert. So, what are ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  7 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Edmund Burke,  U.S. Republican Party,  The New Republic,  Mitch McConnell,  U.S. Senate

The Opinionator: Weekend Opinionator: Barack Obama, Culture Warrior?

At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  31 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  George W. Bush,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Republican Party

The Opinionator: Weekend Opinionator: Closing Gitmo, Opening a Can of Worms

So, in one inaugural phrase, did Barack Obama attempt to swipe away the entire legacy of the Bush administration’s national security policy — and with good results, if you ask the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne or Salon’s Joan Walsh. But the ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  24 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dick Cheney,  Al-Qaeda,  U.S. Congress,  Central Intelligence Agency

The Opinionator: Parsing the Poem

While plying their art in front of millions of viewers was nothing new for Itzhak Perlman or Yo-Yo Ma, it must have been more than a tad unsettling for Elizabeth Alexander, the inaugural poetess. And while Rick Warren was the controversial choice for ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Maya Angelou,  Rick Warren,  Itzhak Perlman,  University of Chicago

The Opinionator: Invoking Rick Warren

So, it was his big day, and how did he do? “About, oh, maybe 10 people eventually clapped” as he made his way to the podium, reports Liza Porteus Viana at Political Machine. No, not President Obama, but the Rev. Rick Warren . She continues: The founder ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  20 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Rick Warren,  Barack Obama,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Gallup,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Opinionator: Weekend Opinionator: The Battle Over the Battle in Gaza

In general, this Opinionator is shy about from putting his employer front and center — he shares the public’s disdain for media navel-gazing, and it’s hard to see how discussing the criticisms of what appears in The Times can be seen as a smart career ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  17 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Hezbollah,  Thomas Friedman

The Opinionator: Weekend Opinionator: Oakland's Tragedy, and Black America's

While widespread violence in Gaza was the big news story of the week, more localized violence in Oakland, Calif., led to some of the blogosphere’s most trenchant debate. On New Year’s day, transit police shot and killed a 22-year-old black man, Oscar ...

From TOBIN HARSHAW, The New York Times,  10 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Stanley Crouch,  Michelle Obama,  Bill Cosby

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