Latest articles by Robert Shrum
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The unnecessarily frenzied handwringing over Barack, Biden, and Bain
feature The press keeps seizing on the ethics and effectiveness of Bain attacks, and imagining Obama dumping Biden for Clinton. Enough of this nonsense
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Bain is just chapter one in the Book of Romney
feature Republicans are desperate to declare Obama's attacks on Mitt's business background off-limits. But in the life of Romney, vulture capitalism is an inescapable theme
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Obama is the Reagan of 2012
feature Newt and Mitt are clambering over each other trying to claim the Gipper's mantle. But it's a Democrat whose situation and rhetoric best mirror Reagan's
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Monsieur Romney's attack on American values
feature The GOP frontrunner blasts the president as "tak[ing] his inspiration from the capitals of Europe." But the truth is, that's exactly what Mitt's doing
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Noonan's fake history lesson for Obama
opinion In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Peggy Noonan counseled our ever-ambitious President to focus on leaving a legacy that can be reduced to one sentence—a specious notion borrowed from former Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe L
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Republican risks and Democratic wobbles
opinion The Republican Party, in a time of imminent irrelevance, pounced on the 9.5 percent jobless number, hoping to benefit. Bad move.
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Palin won't be GOP nominee in 2012
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Race-baiting the President
opinion Rubert Murdoch, Matt Drudge, and their followers sought to use the Gates imbroglio as a racial rallying cry against Obama. With health-care reform on the line, defusing the hysteria was worth a beer.
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Nominating Mitt Malaprop
feature Romney has the GOP nomination wrapped up — but his serial verbal miscues will haunt him in November
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For Obama, the hard part begins
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The lies of August
opinion The stakes are high and Republicans are stooping low. But if health reform falters as a result of GOP demagoguery, Democrats may face a reconstituted Gingrich coalition in 2010.
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Obama's path to greatness
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In praise of earmarks
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The Democratic Danger to Obama
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The hour of phony populism
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Britain proves the folly of GOP economics
feature First slash spending. Then watch the economy contract
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Republicans serve the devil his Tea
feature The GOP's Faustian bargain with the Tea Party will cost it dearly in 2012 — or sooner
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Is Obama a liberal?
feature What the first murmurs of revisionism on the Right tell us about Obama's presidency.
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Will Democrats fumble health reform?
feature Abortion and the tax on "Cadillac" health plans are still contentious issues, and the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat is heightening Democratic anxiety. In this sudden death overtime, there's no margin for error.
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Democrats won — now what?
feature Democrats surprised Republicans — and probably themselves — Tuesday. Now Obama must define the campaign narrative that can keep his party in power past November.
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Rescuing Elena Kagan from "smears"
feature Republicans predictably are waging a faux battle against the nominee's make-believe radicalism. But why must the White House validate bigotry in defending her?
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The GOP's dangerous arrogance
feature An American default – or deliberate descent into another economic crisis – is unthinkable to most of global civil society. What great nation would do this to itself – or everyone else?
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The GOP's sad, intolerant 2012 field
feature At the weekend's Values Voters Summit, Republican presidential candidates and conservative kingmakers proved that bigotry is among their chief values
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Mitt Romney is the Richard Nixon of 2012
feature Just like our 37th president, the once and future GOP frontrunner will secure his party's nomination because the GOP has no other choice
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