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From today’s New York Times:
Mr. Summers has spent much of his career tweaking fellow liberals with arguments he considers unpleasant truths — on the dangers of budget deficits, the benefits of capitalism and other subjects. But he seems to have decided that conservative orthodoxies have become a vastly bigger threat to good economic policy than [...]

NYT columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman thinks FDR can be an inspiration for the Obama administration — but he thinks Obama needs to go further than FDR did in spending to revitalize the economy:
The political lesson is that economic missteps can quickly undermine an electoral mandate. Democrats won big last week — but they [...]

Left: During the Selma march / Right: Barack Obama in Selma (Photo: Linda Stelter/Associated Press)
The New York Times also has a video of election reactions in Selma.