Since Greg welcomed me aboard BHB last week, ideas have been racing through my head.  What would I write about first? CRM execution tactics? Too predictable. Skinned cats? I’ll leave that to my favorite cat skinner. Then it occurred to me last night:  why not dive right in with an example of...

This interview with Al Franken took place on February 20th, 2009. GREEN: Ok, can you now finally admit that you miss your 12-3 pm Air America timeslot and regret leaving for a senate bid? FRANKEN: Well, no I don't. I'm really looking forward to getting into the Senate, and it looks like it's going t...

Mark Green is president of Air America Media and co-editor this month of Change for America . We're the dog that caught the car. Now that a progressive, urban, black constitutional law professor is the president, what should be the relationship of progressive advocates who supported him? That was th...

In his first interview since his resignation as governor in March of 2008, Eliot Spitzer has again sharp criticism of Wall Street -- and ideas for the new president in Washington...and waves a cautionary flag for his successor. Paterson picked a new senator this week because Spitzer picked him over ...

How soon before the headline, "GOP to Detroit: Drop Dead?" While Republicans throw $700 billion to Wall Street but complain about a $14 billion loan for blue collar workers, Bob Kuttner explains why this should be a transforming economic and political moment for Obama. Interview of Bob Kuttner, auth...

45 days and counting... So while we have two presidents -- or none, in Barney Frank's joke -- Berger, Huffington and Conason discuss the Clinton/Gates appointments, what they mean for actual policy, as well as whether the Big Three might become the Big One and whether Rove can tarnish Obama's mandat...

Two fuses were lit this past week that could eventually explode later in John McCain's campaign -- a housing-banking crisis exposing Republican anti-regulation orthodoxy and the senator's penchant for falsehoods that gives new meaning to Bush III. First, the modern anti-regulation crusade began offi...

It will be forgivable that Obama opted out of the public finance system IF he appoints a White House "Democracy Czar" to obtain pro-democracy reforms, like repairing the broken presidential system he rejected. I'm a life-long zealot for public funding of public elections but Obama's refusal to opt-i...

What's the matter with... Philadelphia? There didn't seem to be much "brotherly love" in either of the pivotal Democratic presidential debates held there -- not in the Russert-Williams grilling of Hillary Clinton last October and not in the Gibson-Stephanopoulos cross-examination of Barack Obama las...

Now that John McCain last week elaborated his economic and foreign policy views in major addresses, the weakness of his candidacy is clear: it's not that he'll be 72 if inaugurated but has a 72 year-old agenda. If you like gunboat diplomacy and pre-Depression laissez-faire economics, McCain is your ...