It’s been all about Obama this week and that may reveal something about the way the news is or isn’t covered in the United States. Daphne Eviatar Legal Correspondent for The Washington Independent, Mark Ames journalist and founder of the eXile, now the Exiled Online, and Mario Murillo Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Hostra look at the media coverage of the past week. The Progressive turns 100. And Got Docs.

Heather Boushey of the Center For American Progress on the current economic crisis and how mass unemployment will change the way we live.

Camelia Entekhabifard an Iranian American journalist and a writer for the reformist paper Zan, was imprisoned for her work and for challenging the authority of the Islamic regime. She talks about her story, her new memoir Camelia, and the ongoing trial of Roxana Saberi.

“The journalistic equivalent of a Hallmark holiday.” That is how Obama Senior Adviser David Axelrod described the buzz and hype over the first 100 days of the presidency. Whether you buy it or not, an early review of the presidency may tell us something about what we can expect over the next 900 days.

Walter Mosley, Hendrik Hertzberg and others on Obama's first 100 days. Camelia Entekhabifard discusses her new memoir, Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth. And how will rising unemployment impact American society? Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress on the social dimensions of the financial crisis.

Ensuring that those who are ill can stay home, or keep their sick children home, is exactly why we need to guarantee a minimum number of paid sick days to all workers. Every one of us needs this critical protection carried out before the country faces a pandemic.

Yesterday, Senate Republicans prioritized human life over anti-abortion grandstanding and confirmed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. When the world totters on the brink of a pandemic, slow-walking the future health secretary begins to look unseemly.

Recent polls reveal that since Obama’s election more Americans think race relations in the United States are good. But those who attended the international summit on racism in Geneva last week—a conference that the US boycotted—see things differently. We speak to Ramona Ortega, the Founder and Executive Director of Global Citizen and Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report.

Jay Bybee, infamous for signing memos that provided legal cover for CIA agents involved in torture, was appointed to the Federal Appeals Court in 2003. And not a single democrat questioned him at the session. How did it happen? TheAmerican News Project brings us this important report on the Jay Bybee Problem.

The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, Walter Mosley, Faye Wattleton, and Miles Rappaport on Obama's first 100 days and the next 900.