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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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September 8th, 2010
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Kids in hurricanes: Unsafe at any wind speed
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
In the lead-up to Hurricane Earl, we heard a word we've never heard before in disaster preparedness: "children." In talking about the lessons of Katrina, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate told CNN: "One of the things we've got to be prepared for are children and infants." Finally, someone at the federal level has gotten the message that children can't be treated as short adults in emergencies, that they have different needs than grown-ups. That's the good news. The bad news? With the worst of the hurricane season upon us, Congress hasn't gotten around to doing anything to protect those kids.
The sad Katrina stories about homel ...
September 1st, 2010
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Who defines Obama?
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Liberal critics were dead wrong in condemning Glenn Beck for holding a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Nobody owns that place or that date.
The real problem with Beck is not where and when he speaks. It's what he says. And while he insists that he is not a politician, his choice of location clearly reveals his profoundly political purpose. That purpose is not just to disagree with President Obama but also to discredit him, not just to defeat him but also to demonize him.
Listen carefully to Beck and his pals on right-wing radio, such as Rush Limbaugh, and their message is unmista ...
August 25th, 2010
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Strong hands and hearts
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
Steve's 91-year-old mother recently spent time in a hospital near our home in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. The nurses who cared for her included Leah from Kenya and Jo-Anne from South Africa. The social workers who processed her discharge were Grace from Cameroon and Patricia from Trinidad. If you withdrew all the foreign-born women from that hospital, its infrastructure would collapse overnight.
This is no surprise to us. The women who have cared for Steve's mother over the last few years are all from Jamaica. The group that ministers to Cokie's 94-year-old mother is from the Philippines. We even refer to them in the family as Team J ...
August 18th, 2010
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A cynical and dangerous game
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
The question of the week in Washington is whether President Obama will pay a political price for defending the right of New York Muslims to build a religious center near Ground Zero. The answer is probably yes, but there's a more important question.
Are the critics of the center encouraging America's enemies and undermining our national security? The answer to that one is definitely yes.
Those critics -- mainly Republicans, but including some cowering Democrats like Senate leader Harry Reid -- are playing a cynical and dangerous game, stirring up xenophobic fears for short-term political gains. Take Newt Gingrich, who is clearly running fo ...
August 11th, 2010
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French lessons for the United States
By Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
PARIS -- During his first six months as a waiter in a fine Paris restaurant, Claude was a model employee. "But this you must know about French labor law," says Claude's boss. "During the initial 'trial period,' we could dismiss Claude without too much difficulty; after six months on the books, however, the waiter was considered a full-time employee, with a long list of ironclad rights. Getting rid of him thereafter was extremely difficult and costly."
The day after his probation ended, Claude turned into a professional slacker and scam artist. When his boss tried to fire him, his union stepped in, threatening to drag the restaurant t ...
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