Latest articles by Robert Shrum
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Obama will return to health care
feature With financial reform underway and immigration reform coming next, it appears Barack Obama has moved on from the health-care debate. Just wait
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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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Liberals must choose: Purity or victory?
feature The health care bill and Copenhagen prove yet again that Obama knows how to win on important issues. His detractors on the left should be taking notes
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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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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 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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Obama's crucible is overseas
feature Having averted a double-dip recession in America, will the president fall prey to a double-dip war in Iraq?
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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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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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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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Can Obama reverse the tide?
feature The president is speaking like a Democrat. And he sounds pretty good.
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What Obama should do now
feature There are times when picking a fight on principle is also good politics. With the midterm election fast approaching, here's the fight Obama should be waging
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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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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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The enduring greatness of JFK
feature Fifty years after his inauguration, John F. Kennedy's words continue to enlarge America
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Israel's moment to be bold
feature The crisis in Egypt will present Israel with an opportunity to seize the high ground — and maybe peace, too
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The referendum on Obama
feature Republicans took a joyful victory lap last week for next year's 2010 midterm elections. Now all they have to do is run the race.
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