The Status Report: Assessing the Obama Administration?s First Year
Source: The Brookings Institution
During the presidential transition, Brookings scholars wrote a series of policy recommendations in 12 memos to incoming President Barack Obama. In January 2010, one year into the new presidency, our experts rated the progress of the new administration on those same issues in The Status Report, a series of daily commentary and video.
Each of the items below provides an assessment of President Obama?s performance in light of recommendations made during the Presidential Transition.
The president of war and peace appears to have pulled off a difficult balancing act, by refusing to bask in the glow of merely being the “anti-Bush”. In Oslo, Obama told his European audience what many Americans 
