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The Becker & Posner Blog:
Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam? Richard Posner
The Serious Conflict in the Modern Conservative Movement. Gary Becker

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WORLD VIEW: Fareed Zakaria

The End of Conservatism
Conservative slogans sound anachronistic in the context of today’s problems, like an old TV show from the 1970s.
From the magazine issue dated Feb 25, 2008 / NEWSWEEK

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Op-Ed Columnist
The Republican Collapse
by DAVID BROOKS

Published: October 5, 2007 NYT

Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. …>>

United States
The Supreme Court

Following Souter
May 7th 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition

Barack Obama has a chance to rejuvenate the Supreme Court’s liberal wing

DAVID SOUTER … is a singular character. Though wealthy, he lives the life of Diogenes. He lunches frugally at his desk, typically on yogurt and an apple, which he eats to the core. He seldom goes out. He has no time for modern distractions such as television. But most unusually of all, despite having life tenure as a judge on the Supreme Court, he is planning to retire at the tender age of 69.

He loves judging but hates Washington, DC. He calls it the worst city in the world, though he has barely travelled. He yearns to return to his home in a tiny hamlet in New Hampshire, a dilapidated wooden farmhouse where he lives alone. …>>

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David Souter
by J.Stone

May 01, 2009, The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog

It would appear from the latest news reports that Justice David Souter is about to part ways with the Supreme Court after a nineteen-year tenure. At the time of his nomination by President George H. W. Bush, David Souter was a virtual unknown. In his long career as a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, a judge on the New Hampshire trial court, and New Hampshire’s attorney general, he seldom had occasion to express his views on controversial constitutional issues. Many critics of the nomination complained that President Bush had found a “stealth candidate” who had no “paper trail” but was secretly a rock-solid conservative determined to overturn Roe v. Wade and to outlaw affirmative action. It didn’t turn out quite that way. …>>

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United States
The Supreme Court

Change at the top
May 1st 2009
From Economist.com

The retirement of Justice David Souter will let Barack Obama begin to shape the Supreme Court …>>

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NYT blog: The Conversation: Talking between columns / May 6, 2009, 12:46 pm

Who Will Replace Souter?
By David Brooks and Gail Collins

Gail Collins: David, I’m really eager to hear your opinions about the upcoming debate over a new Supreme Court justice. Here are some thoughts …>>

http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/who-will-replace-souter/#more-155

An hour with Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary / Charlie Rose / in Current Affairs / on Wednesday, May 6, 2009

A conversation about the future of trade in the global economy with Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative, Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, Alan Blinder, Director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies and Sherrod Brown, United States Senator from the state of Ohio

Charlie Rose / in Current Affairs / on Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A conversation with James Carville about the book “40 More Years”.

Charlie Rose / in Current Affairs / on Monday, May 4, 2009

swissinfo 1. Mai 2009 – 18:09     100 Tage Präsident Obama: Der Härtetest kommt erst
 
Nach seinen ersten 100 Tagen im Amt ist US-Präsident Barack Obama nach eigenen Worten “stolz auf das Erreichte, aber noch nicht zufrieden”. Der Schweizer Professor Jürg Siegenthaler, der seit 1967 in den USA lebt, attestiert Obama einen guten Start.

Jürg Siegenthaler, Professor für Sozialpolitische Analysen, der in Maryland lebt, hat mit swissinfo über die ersten 100 Tage des neuen Präsidenten gesprochen…. »

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The New Republic
Post Date Wednesday, April 29, 2009

100 Days of Disquietude
by Alan Brinkley

Obama’s first few months weren’t as frenzied as Roosevelt’s–but they might have been more productive.

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The TNR Slideshow: Obama’s 100 Days

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04/30/2009 Spiegel Online

OPINION: The Most Expensive President Since 1945
By Gabor Steingart in Washington

The new US president’s first 100 days in office were expensive, glamorous and often contradictory. Barack Obama has done many things right against a host of intractable problems, but he’s made at least two blatant mistakes.

Reaction to President Obama’s press conference with Mike Allen of Politico.com, John Heilemann of “New York Magazine”, Jim Ellis, Assistant Managing Editor, “BusinessWeek”, Jeff Greenfield of CBS News, Al Hunt of Bloomberg News and Katty Kay of BBC World News America

in Current Affairs / on Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Start. / Special Report. / Video: 100 Days Behind the Lens. / Photos: Behind the Scenes with Obama.

04/29/2009 Spiegel Online

100 DAYS OF OBAMA
The Instant American Revolution

After his first 100 days — an arbitrary landmark set by Franklin D. Roosevelt — President Obama has overturned decades of Republican ideology in Washington. One Republican even managed to sweeten the date for Obama by defecting to the Democrats. But the president still has to be wary. …>>

22:23 GMT +00:00 Democracy in America

100 days: Obama in seven haikus

Posted by: Economist.com | NEW YORK / FROM the editor of More Intelligent Life: …>>