Latest articles by Robert Shrum
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Saving Social Security -- and Democratic seats
feature In their desire to dismantle Social Security, Republicans have given Democrats an issue that has been politically potent before -- and can be so again.
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Three new realities of the Obama Era
feature The passage of health-care reform has reshaped more than the insurance industry. It's brought a truce on abortion, married Republicans to the mob, and restored progressivism to the presidency after a five-decade hiatus
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For Obama, success is at hand
feature The premature gloom about Obama's presidency will soon be swept away by the reality: Obama is resurgent.
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The organ-grinder Congress
feature With the Capitol transformed into a big top, Democrats can't afford to be spectators
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Is Obama's re-election bid really in trouble?
feature Forget the noisy declarations about lousy economic news sinking Obama’s re-election. The president is still on track for a second term
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The blame game
feature America's economic panic is the fault of Tea Partiers, S&P, speculators, and Big Business. And it's up to Obama to convince us to put country first
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Get over it, liberals
feature Principles matter, but not as much as progress
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Obama, tax cuts, and principle
feature Obama can't risk a middle class tax hike that would damage the recovery and hand power to a cynical GOP. So he'll cave on extending tax cuts to the wealthy instead
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Obama's momentous April
feature The president faces a critical month for the American military mission in Libya, and the raging budget battles in D.C.
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The budget battle could be a defining moment for Barack Obama
feature If he speaks the plain truth about the GOP's real ideological agenda, he can win the contest for America’s future
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Can Obama reverse the tide?
feature The president is speaking like a Democrat. And he sounds pretty good.
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Why Republicans can't find a decent presidential candidate
feature The party's ideology is out of whack and nobody wants to lose to Barack Obama. Meanwhile, time is running out
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Obama's transformation
feature The killing of Osama bin Laden gave the president new strength and credibility – and widened the gap with his 2012 rivals
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LBJ's pens and Obama's peril
feature Lyndon Johnson achieved a formidable legislative record as president, but was undone by two key failures. Obama faces the same two challenges — fortunately, he still has time to correct course
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The enduring greatness of JFK
feature Fifty years after his inauguration, John F. Kennedy's words continue to enlarge America
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Bin Laden, the fringe Left, and the torturous Right
feature The killing of the architect of September 11 has provoked predictable remonstrance from the usual suspects
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Is anyone listening to Obama?
feature To regain the attention of a dispirited and angry public, the president must overcome his temperamental aversion to the populist politics
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Reaganomics is dead
feature Sworn into office facing similarly high levels of unemployment, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama pursued starkly different policies. A comparison of their results should put the final stake in voodoo economics
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The Republican war on the Constitution
feature For a GOP doubling down on a strategy of division and discrimination, the Constitution appears increasingly old and in the way.
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The economy trumps Trump
feature Obama has deflected the birthers. The real danger for the president now is the GOP's political ploy to dead-end the economy
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The degradation of John McCain
feature Angrily scorning his own past positions, McCain behaves like a batty, deluded uncle. But his hypocrisy is tragically rational
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Obama's three fateful tests
feature By the middle of next month, the die will be cast on the economy, health-care reform and Afghanistan. These are the tests that will decide Obama's presidency.
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Rotten decade, remarkable year
feature The gloomy appraisals of the past decade missed a key point: America turned the corner in 2009. In a tough but historic year, we got back on course to becoming a fairer, stronger and more prosperous nation.
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The GOP dumps the Gipper
feature Mired in anger and vituperation, seemingly hell-bent on becoming a small-tent faction rather than a big-tent governing party, Republicans have betrayed the leader they ritually canonize. The GOP is now the party of malaise.
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