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DENVER – President Obama arrived here Wednesday afternoon to revive public support for his stalled gun-control agenda, using a tour of a police academy to put renewed pressure on…
Continue Reading →CONSUMERS AREN’T paying nearly enough for their energy, and that’s a massive problem for the planet. Big Middle Eastern oil exporters hold the price of gasoline within their countries well…
Continue Reading →Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” spots a familiar talking point from President Obama’s recent Middle East trip. Read full article > >
Continue Reading →IN A BRIEF FILED Thursday with the Supreme Court, the Obama administration didn’t quite argue that the Constitution’s equal-protection clause guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. But…
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Continue Reading →President Obama will propose a pay raise for federal civilian employees that is less than private-sector wage growth yet more than that favored by many House Republicans, who want…
Continue Reading →The White House has posted a photo of President Obama skeet shooting at Camp David this past August. Asked recently whether he had ever fired a gun, Obama told The…
Continue Reading →Scholars gathered for the African American Economic Summit at Howard University on Friday sketched an alarming picture of the financial ills afflicting the black community even as the nation recovers…
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Continue Reading →Now that Republicans have delayed the debt ceiling for three months, their next point of attack, they say, are the deep spending cuts in the so-called “sequester.” House…
Continue Reading →In ” Kludgeocracy: The American Way of Policy ,” Johns Hopkins political scientist Steven Teles argues that “[w]ith the frontiers of the state roughly fixed, the issues that will dominate…
Continue Reading →Regarding Frank Silnicky’s Jan. 23 letter about President Obama politicizing the presidential limousine by adding to it the District’s “Taxation without representation” license plates: I would venture that if Mr. Silnicky’s…
Continue Reading →President Obama had mentioned climate change in prominent speeches before Monday. In his November victory speech , he spoke of protecting America’s children from “the destructive power of a warming planet…
Continue Reading →A quick reality check: The president’s inaugural address probably won’t much matter come, say, next Thursday. And on the off-chance that it does, it will probably make President Obama’s…
Continue Reading →THERE WERE not the historic numbers that four years ago watched Barack Obama take the oath of office to become this country’s first African American president, but everywhere you looked…
Continue Reading →TO LOSE favor in Washington was once political poison for Israeli prime ministers. Twice during the 1990s, Israelis voted out leaders who quarreled with the U.S. president; the second…
Continue Reading →When President Obama said Monday that “our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law,” he made history by…
Continue Reading →Thousands of words have been — and will be — written by us and others about Inauguration Day 2013. But, in many ways, President Obama’s second inaugural is better told through pictures. The…
Continue Reading →Halfway through President Obama’s inaugural address, James Fallows tweeted : “I believe this is the most ‘progressive’ speech he’s ever given.” I would take that a step further. Obama’s speech…
Continue Reading →Four years ago, President Obama was sworn in as a financial crisis was still engulfing the markets and the economy. Now he can point to a Wall Street overhaul that…
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