ILR alumnus Alan Krueger '83 is nominated to become President Barack Obama's new Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

A Cornell graduate student was arrested for protesting against a proposal to build a 1,700-mile pipeline outside the White House on Friday.

Something sexy’s going on at the White House.

Peter Orszag, the young (and somewhat handsome) director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been making headlines lately — not for how he balances the budget, but how he balances his ladies. The story involves his engagement to a hottie financial correspondent from ABC News (ow-ow!) only a short while after another chick gave birth to his daughter. It’s been the talk of the Washington rumor mill (after all, it’s been over a decade since anything slightly erotic came out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.), and Orszag’s trying to keep his head down and plow ahead with the numbers. But didn’t anyone tell him not to mix balance sheets and bed sheets?

Barry’s presidency hasn’t begun as smoothly as his faithful flock had hoped. Even before Inauguration Day, then President-elect Obama had to continually nominate and rescind nominations for his not-so-thoroughly vetted cabinet candidates (Do you know the fourth nominee for Secretary of Commerce’s name?).

From the outset of his presidency, Obama has faced a once-in-a-century economic challenge from collapsing industries integral to the American economy. This administration’s so-called bailouts of sub-prime borrowers, America’s big three automakers and the Wall Street fat cats who stole and swindled investors have faced scathing criticism across the board.