• What the last of the great liberals can teach Obama about how to fight for health care reform.

    What Obama Must Do About Health Care
  • Michael Brown, son of the late Commerce secretary Ron Brown, remembers Ted Kennedy as a longtime friend of the family.

    How Kennedy Helped Ron Brown and Roger Wilkins
  • The Root's Dayo Olopade and Terrance Heath of 'The Republic of T' discuss Ted Kennedy's liberal legacy...

    Dayo Olopade and Terrance Heath Discuss Ted Kennedy's Legacy on Bloggingheads
  • Ted Kennedy was as much a masterful communicator as a skilled legislator. His urgent message was simple and lasting: We must build a fair and just society.

    Ted Kennedy's Speeches Offer a Lasting Articulation of the Liberal Ideal
  • President Obama had not known Ted Kennedy for long. But he has continuously invoked and praised the Kennedy family legacy, from the educational initiatives under John Kennedy that brought Barack Obama Sr. to the United States, to the rumors of Obama's preference for Caroline to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate, to the handwritten letter Obama carried from Kennedy to the Pope, down to the gift of his family dog.

    President Obama Speaks on the Death of Senator Ted Kennedy
  • Who will bring his empathy and compassion for the rest of America? Who will take up his causes?

    Brother Ted Kennedy: Good White Folk
  • One of the most powerful and influential senators in American history, Ted Kennedy was the last survivor of a family and a generation that  dominated American politics in the 1960s.

    Ted Kennedy Dies at 77
  • President Barack Obama bestowed the National Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, to a host of prominent Americans today, including actor Sidney Poitier, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...

    Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Distinguished Americans
  • For those of us who questioned how hard the White House and its congressional allies would fight for health care reform, the answer is here. The devil remains in the details, of course, but in the last couple of days Barack Obama has put Republicans and conservative Democrats alike "on notice": Get on board or get left behind.

    In Congress, Obama's Plan for Health Care Gets Some Teeth
  • The president hopes some of the same methods that helped get him elected will help sway Congress on health care reform...

    Obama Rallying Grass Roots on Health Care Reform
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