Immediately after Barack Obama was pronounced the victor in the 2008 presidential election, corporate media began to tell him how he ought to govern – in most cases, urging him to hew toward the center.

Wondering what may be first on the new Obama administration's agenda? At a Nov. 7th press conference, his first as president-elect, Barack Obama announced that fixing the economy is "job one."

More than 1.1 million jobs have been lost since the beginning of 2008, according to the latest data from the Department of Labor released Nov. 7th.

While working families and the people as a whole scored a major victory by electing Barack Obama and claiming larger majorities in Congress on Nov. 4th, several states set back the rights and equality of LGBT people.

In a letter circulated this week to the staff and leadership of the United Steelworkers union (USW), USW President Leo Gerard expressed jubilation at the election of Barack Obama.

If there were a Mount Rushmore for political athletes, who would be carved into the great monument? For my money, it would include Muhammad Ali.

Many people shed tears across the country after President-elect Barack Obama claimed victory Nov. 4th. For many of an older generation – white and Black – the victory was linked to the struggles and sacrifices of the civil rights movement.

In his victory speech on Nov. 4th, President-elect Barack Obama dedicated his victory to the American people. "I will never forget," he said, "who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you."

November 4, 2008, will be remembered as the night Americans cried for joy. It was not only the hundred thousand partisan Chicagoans gathered in Grant Park that were moved to rapture. Good people across the nation wept with gratitude that America at last had taken a giant step to overcome its racism.

Barack Obama unquestionably won the presidential elections in the United States. However, beyond his successful, well-organized and coherent electoral campaign, his overwhelming victory still leaves space for different interpretations.

Striking a unifying theme, President-elect Barack Obama told a crowd of an estimated 1 million people in Chicago, Illinois and millions watching and listening around the world, that "America is not and never has been just a collection of red states and blue states."

By the time this article is finished, it will be less than 24 hours before Barack Obama is elected President of the United States and thus forced, no doubt, to deal with the worst economic crisis ever to fall to the lot of any US heads of state right on Inauguration Day.

Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair.

Barack Obama has shown modern leadership ability. He works collectively, makes decisions carefully, establishes broad policy outlines and then seeks specific policy solutions that fit the outline and changing conditions.

ATLANTA - A three-judge federal panel ruled October 27, 2008, that Georgia should have sought approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before using Social Security and driver's license information to check the citizenship status of thousands of voters.

Most working families have felt tough economic times for several years now, but economists have refused to designate these conditions as a recession. A perfect storm of severe economic data has made it harder to deny, however.

Major RV manufacturers all report a downturn in sales since the price of fuel started to skyrocket a few years ago. A typical RV weighs more and gets worse gas mileage than an 18-wheeler truck.

With nine straight months of job losses, declining incomes, collapsing in consumer spending, rising in home foreclosures, and a contraction of the GDP, recession sees most working families preparing for the worst.

Re-Legalizing collective bargaining and union organization through the Employee Free Choice Act holds the promise of workers freely choosing to involve themselves directly in the legal bargaining process over income and conditions of employment.

Get ready for it. The signs are already there – and not just from the Republicans. Leftists, like Alexander Cockburn of CounterPunch.org has gotten into the act.