David Broder

Columns

• The hand Obama should play — soon - 11/15/2009

  The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees.

• A health care reform bill that doesn't pay the bill - 11/13/2009

  While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You've left...

• Taking wing in their honor - 11/8/2009

  A couple weeks before Veterans Day, I went down to the World War II Memorial on the Mall to join Bob and Elizabeth Dole and a group of elderly soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen from her hometown...

• Does the election signal trouble ahead for Democrats? - 11/5/2009

  A year after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic...

• Prelude to a 2010 drama - 11/1/2009

  The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health care legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York...

• Reid's risky gamble - 10/30/2009

  There is an air of desperate improvisation to Sen.

• Reid, Obama resort to budget sleight-of-hand - 10/25/2009

  When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no idea how quickly evidence of that shift in...

• Raising the debt ceiling puts stress on Dems - 10/22/2009

  Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as...

• Delaware's battle for Washington - 10/19/2009

  A year from now, when we are in the final weeks of the midterm elections, voters across the country will likely be focused on a state that has rarely drawn attention from any but its own residents.

• It's time for your health plan now, Mr. President - 10/15/2009

  It has taken much longer than President Obama hoped, but we are finally at the point where he can — and must — put his personal stamp on his main domestic initiative, the overhaul of the...

• Time to cut the fat out of political discourse - 10/11/2009

  Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep.

• Big Business abandoned by GOP in health debate - 10/8/2009

  One of the intriguing mysteries of this year is why the initial broad support from American business for overhauling the health care system has not translated into more than a handful of votes from...

• Moment of truth on health care - 10/4/2009

  Barack Obama has reached the moment of truth for answering the persistent question about his core beliefs and political priorities.

• Chicago — go for it - 10/1/2009

  He may have bigger challenges now and in years to come, but nothing will endear Barack Obama to some of us more than his decision to take a quick trans-Atlantic round trip to lobby the International...

• So far, Team Obama looks like a winner - 9/27/2009

  For President Obama, last week was rather like a major exam on his skills as a diplomat and architect of foreign policy. He can count on being tested again and again by unexpected events.

• Obama's administration is in a progressive stew - 9/24/2009

  A brand-new publication came across my desk this week containing an essay that offers as good an insight into President Obama's approach to government as anything I have read — and is...

• Montana's Max Baucus: in the muddled middle - 9/20/2009

  In the early 1970s when Max Baucus, now the senior senator from Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was contemplating entering politics, he sought advice from many veteran...

• Obama's autumn of discontent - 8/30/2009

  I sure hope that President Obama and his family enjoyed their week's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, because what he faces on his return to Washington is sheer hell.

• Ted Kennedy always tackled life head-on - 8/27/2009

  When I first encountered him in Beckley, W.Va.

• Three giants in a drama they loved - 8/20/2009

  Before Bob Novak created the self-parody as "The Prince of Darkness" that his friends and TV fans enjoyed so much, he had two other journalistic identities.

• On the stimulus, questions remain - 8/16/2009

  Before the opponents of health-care reform turned congressional town meetings into shouting matches, they had picked another target.

• Playing with fire at town hall protests - 8/13/2009

  Watching the muscular tactics being used in congressional town meetings by some opponents of health-care reform, I keep thinking somebody should remind the Republican leaders who are reveling in the...

• Sotomayor's impact could be substantial - 8/9/2009

  When Sen.

• Healthy competition of ideas shows promise - 8/2/2009

  Here's an irony for you: The health-care bills in Congress are getting better, even as support for them diminishes around the country.

• Peering through judicial camouflage - 7/30/2009

  There was never much doubt that Sonia Sotomayor would be confirmed for the Supreme Court.

• Putting teeth into Medicare reform - 7/26/2009

  Americans are familiar with — if not altogether comfortable about — unelected officials exercising great authority over our lives.