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Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Cokie and Steve Roberts' weekly commentary column offers a no-nonsense analysis of national and international issues. Married for more than four decades, these preeminent journalists discuss issues from their perspective as reporters, Washington insiders and also as parents and working professionals. Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. She co-anchored ABC's "This Week With Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts" until 2002. She has been chief congressional analyst for ABC News, a reporter for "World News Tonight" and other ABC News broadcasts, NPR's congressional correspondent and president of the Radio and Television Correspondent's Association. She has won numerous awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Award and an Emmy Award. Ms. Roberts is the author of the best-selling We Are Our Mother's Daughters (1998) and Founding Mothers (William Morrow, 2004). In his more than 40 years as a journalist, Steven Roberts has covered Presidential elections and such historic international events as President Reagan's trip to Moscow. His 25-year career with The New York Times included assignments as bureau chief in Los Angeles and Athens, and as White House correspondent. Mr. Roberts appears regularly on CNN, PBS and the ABC radio network, and hosts Voice of America's "The Roberts Report." He is a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report, a popular lecturer and the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. Cokie and Steve Roberts are the authors of the bestseller From This Day Forward (2000).
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February 3rd, 2010
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In praise of moral courage
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
What do Bob Dole, Howard Baker, Pete Domenici, Sam Nunn, Tom Daschle and Chuck Robb have in common? They are all former senators, from both parties, who are working together on such issues as expanding health care, reducing the deficit, controlling nuclear weapons, and promoting energy independence. They prove that bipartisanship is not some impossible goal dreamed up by egghead professors and editorial writers.
Of course, the key word here is "former." These retired politicians are liberated to focus on values, not votes. They can actually agree with each other, even like each other, without the constant, corrosive pressure of ideologues and ...
January 27th, 2010
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Geaux Saints!
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
The cheer, with its inside joke of a "French" spelling for go, serves as the standard greeting among New Orleanians these days. The NFC champions have become so much more than a football team to the citizens of Cokie's hometown -- those big guys in black and gold stand as a symbol of resurrection and resurgence.
Words such as "faith" crop up when people in the Crescent City talk about their gridiron heroes. "It's not because we're selling it," team owner Rita LeBlanc told ESPN. "You cannot watch this football team and not have faith."
Faith sustained New Orleans after the storm when boats sat atop houses and cars toppled onto the "neutral ground"; it was ...
January 20th, 2010
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Pitchfork Barry at the gates
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Coming soon to your radio, television, Twitter feed, YouTube screen and Facebook wall: Pitchfork Barry, the People's Friend!
Over the last week, the president has been flight-testing a populist pitch that tries to rekindle the loyalty and enthusiasm that propelled him into the White House. The tone might be new for the Cool One, but he's following the oldest script in the Democrats' canon: the Little Guy vs. Big Business, Main Street vs. Wall Street, Us vs. Them.
Pitchfork Barry rolled out his new image by proposing $90 billion in new taxes on 50 of the nation's largest financial institutions -- including many that profited from emergency ...
January 13th, 2010
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An American tableau
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Every so often in Washington, politicians pack up the poison and do something that just makes you feel good about America. That happened recently at the swearing-in ceremony for Surgeon General Regina Benjamin when partisanship was put aside and pride in this doctor and the Public Health Service that she now heads was cause for celebration.
Some of the well-wishers who overflowed the auditorium made a great sacrifice to travel from the tiny Alabama fishing village of Bayou La Batre. They did it because the new "nation's doctor" had sacrificed so much to care for them. Benjamin's community clinic had twice been wiped out by hurricanes and once by fire ...
January 6th, 2010
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Face of the nation, face of the world
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
As we recently boarded a plane in Jamaica after a family vacation, our three small grandsons were patted down -- twice -- by security agents. After we landed, late at night, hauling exhausted children behind us, our baggage was selected for extra screening.
What possible reason could they have, we asked the agents. The response: We were "traveling together," and that apparently sinister connection triggered a need for even closer scrutiny.
This is nuts, a stupid waste of taxpayer dollars and a needless distraction for security personnel. America is no safer because those agents decided to put the kids' backpacks through yet anothe ...
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