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Behind the Logo
Logo Design Love has the interesting story behind the creation of the logo for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Many of the alternatives the campaign considered are on display.

Late Late Nite FDL: Pedal Bastille Music
Featuring videos from Australia’s, The Molotov, and from Saint Louis, Missouri, Gentleman Auction House.

The Molotov “In The RED”

Gentleman Auction House  “The Book of Matches”

Featuring videos from Australia’s, The Molotov, and from Saint Louis, Missouri, Gentleman Auction House.

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Obama Demand: The Israeli Occupation Must End
It is becoming clear that Barack Obama understands that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of virtually all of America’s problems in the Middle East. He also understands that, paradoxically, it is the Middle East problem most amenable to…

Last Chance
Today’s the deadline for applications for our Fall cycle TPM internship. Find all the details here….

Obama picks Shaun Donovan to head Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In his weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama announced he was selecting the “widely respected housing commissioner for New York City,” Shaun Donovan, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Donovan worked at HUD in the Clinton administration, leading an effort to help make housing affordable for nearly two million Americans. He “has experience in […]

In his weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama announced he was selecting the “widely respected housing commissioner for New York City,” Shaun Donovan, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Donovan worked at HUD in the Clinton administration, leading an effort to help make housing affordable for nearly two million Americans. He “has experience in all facets of the affordable housing market, having worked in both the nonprofit and private sectors and in academia as a scholar of housing policy.” In his address, Obama said this appointment signals a new way of approaching the challenge of affordable housing:

We need to understand that the old ways of looking at our cities just won’t do. That means promoting cities as the backbone of regional growth by not only solving the problems in our cities, but seizing the opportunities in our growing suburbs, exurbs, and metropolitan areas.

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Stimulus Package To First Pay for Routine Repairs
President-elect Barack Obama calls it “the largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s.” New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg compares it to the New Deal — when workers built hundreds of bridges, dams and parkways — while…