- Nancy Pelosi unveils an $894 billion health care bill - replete with several liberal compromises - and some Democrats are calling for the president's public endorsement of the House bill.
- Karl Rove contends that Tuesday's gubernatorial elections should prove that "for Republicans... hope and change are on the way." E.J. Dionne thinks that Democrats will continue to do well on election day if they learn to embrace the party's association with President Obama.
- Robert Kagan argues that in dealing with Iran it's time for Obama to raise the stakes or fold his hand.
- A day after a Taliban attack in Kabul killed 5 UN workers, Victor Sebestyen suggests that President Obama could learn from another national leader's military experience in Afghanistan: Mikhail Gorbachev.
