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More Credit Deserved

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Richard Drew / AP Photo Obama hasn’t put an end to the partisan vitriol, but he should get more recognition for preventing our financial system from going off a ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, The Daily Beast,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  The Daily Beast,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Ben Bernanke,  New York Times Company

A Justice Reflects

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor tells Walter Isaacson there should be more women on the court, real-life ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, The Daily Beast,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Sandra Day O'Connor,  Walter Isaacson,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Aspen Institute,  U.S. Republican Party

A Delicate Balance

We like to think of our nation’s founders as men with unwavering fealty to high-minded principles. To some extent they were. But when they gathered in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to write the Constitution, they showed that they were also ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, The New York Times,  10 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Benjamin Franklin,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. House of Representatives

Walter Isaacson: A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

The crisis in journalism has, during the past few months, reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time in the near future when major towns will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network news operations will ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, Huffington Post,  5 Feb 2009
Related Topics: America Online,  Walter Isaacson,  WIRED Magazine,  Wall Street Journal,  Rupert Murdoch

Chain Reaction: From Einstein to the Atomic Bomb

In the popular imagination, Albert Einstein is intimately associated with the atom bomb. A few months after the weapon was used against Japan in 1945, Time put him on its cover with an explosion mushrooming behind him that had E = mc2 emblazoned on it. ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, Discover,  17 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Albert Einstein,  Whittaker Chambers,  Columbia University

Let's Help the Good Guys in the West Bank

One way to do that is to strengthen its moderate Palestinian opponents. Fortunately, there is a smart and honest leader of these forces: Salam Fayyad, an apolitical economist (with a doctorate from the University of Texas) who is prime minister of the ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, The Washington Post,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Tony Blair,  America Online,  George W. Bush,  Ehud Barak

Op-Ed Contributor: Go Southeast, Young Man

NEW ORLEANS is a tale of two cities these days. In areas that were smashed and then sat for weeks underwater when the levees broke, the devastation still stretches for miles and the valiant cleanup efforts seem as daunting as mopping sand from a ...

From WALTER ISAACSON, The New York Times,  7 Jun 2006

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