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Tuesday, as Barack Obama became the first African-American President, the shadows of great Americans stood watch among the millions who gathered on the National Mall.

Lincoln, who delivered black Americans from slavery, was evident as President Obama rested his hand on the same Bible that the 16th President used to take the oath of office in 1861.

"He has been seen as a likely successor to his father," said Bin Laden expert Peter Bergen. Filmmaker Sean Langan recently told The News that during three ...

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the housing bubble. We created a college tuition bubble as well. As with housing, a toxic combination of easy credit and unsophisticated and unrealistically optimistic consumers has driven college prices sky-high.

Those prices aren't coming down anytime soon - and as the credit crisis continues, that means there's a risk that students who max out on federal loans and need extra private aid won't be able to borrow enough to afford expensive colleges.

"America" - the concept, as well as the country - is facing a clash of values as it contemplates the best way to fill vacancies created by departing senators and governors in New York, Illinois and elsewhere who are joining the Obama administration. More is at stake than it might at first seem. Particularly as the United States embarks on a journey with a new administration in which so many have pinned so much hope, these early details matter.

The agreement on the $700 billion bailout package begs the question, "How are we going to pay for all this?"

In the three presidential and vice presidential debates to date, the candidates have done their best to dodge the question. But it is not an issue that can be ignored for long. For anyone who needs to be reminded of the dangers of excessive borrowing, they need not look any further than the crisis we are currently in the midst of.

One of the many lessons from… more

"When you hit the Haqqanis, what you hope for is a phone call from a grieving relative to somebody else you want to kill," said Al Qaeda expert Peter Bergen.

The "signals intelligence" intercepts "lead you to the next target," said Bergen, who once interviewed Osama Bin Laden. LINK

Democrats gather in Denver this week with worries as well as hopes. It's not just that Barack Obama is locked in a dead heat with John McCain. It's also that he is barely winning - and in some polls actually losing - on the issue that should be his strongest - the economy.

If Obama is going to triumph, he needs to attract the middle-class voters who've watched their jobs, health care, retirement savings and family finances grow less secure. But this will only happen if he… more

During his historic run for the White House, Barack Obama has been compared to an impressive range of Presidents. His oratory reminds some of Kennedy, his paeans to national greatness evoke Reagan and the postpartisan themes of his campaign bring to mind Bill Clinton.

But if one looks at Obama's campaign in a larger historical context, the most apt comparison may be Franklin Roosevelt. At a time when the nation was hungry for real solutions to serious national challenges, FDR understood… more

With her campaign on life support, Hillary Clinton is making the one political argument that could hold the greatest sway with national Democrats: She is more electable.

It's hardly a surprising approach. Convinced of the party's vulnerabilities with the electorate and intimidated by opponents seen as masters of the black art of negative campaigning, Democrats are long accustomed to making electability their political lodestar.

But history shows that this is a shallow and counterproductive game -- one that can and should finally… more

WASHINGTON - The weekend's attempted attacks in London and Glasgow are a distressing sign that Osama Bin Laden's expanding influence has instigated a two-tiered terror war, with Al Qaeda organizing 9/11-like attacks and its homegrown cronies carrying out limited, random strikes."If you're a counterterrorism official in Washington this morning, you have two concerns: the big attacks and the small ones," Al Qaeda expert Peter Bergen said yesterday.The "spectacular" attacks will likely always be the domain of… more