Administration
A ‘triumph’ in financial reform
May 27th
By Joshua Green May 27, 2010 LAST WEEK, the Senate followed the House and passed a bill to regulate Wall Street, all but ensuring President Obama another major legislative victory. At moments like these, the Washington press corps drops its adversarial tone and adopts a witness-to-history earnestness. Pronouncements are made about the historic nature of [...]
House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo
May 24th
The Public Record 5/24/10 Posted by Andy Worthington A U.S. Army soldier with Echo Company, 629th Military Intelligence Battalion, keeps watch from a guard tower at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention center on Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nov. 13, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy President Obama’s hopes of closing [...]
