Steve Fraser: If Obama's Clinton-era Brainiacs don't come up with some original thinking, how can we ever move beyond the bailout state?
Sean Penn: Cuban President Raul Castro on Obama and Guantánamo; Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on human rights and the next US administration.
Katrina vanden Heuvel:Obama still has a good shot at changing the failed policies of the past. But keeping Robert Gates in place isn't going to help.