As Big as Social Security
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explains why President Obama’s health-care reform legislation is in the same category as Social Security and the civil-rights bill.
Following in JFK's Footsteps
In some ways, Obama has outperformed Kennedy, the president to whom he’s most often compared. But Doris Kearns Goodwin argues his gains are offset by his tenuous hold on his base.