With Americans formally retiring from their combat role in Iraq, we should be revisiting constitutional fundamentals, including the fact that it is Congress’ authority to define the scope of limited wars, not the president’s.
A majority of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama “sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world,” according to a survey released on Monday.
NEW YORK Two civil liberties groups sued the federal government on Monday to try to block its targeted killing overseas of a US-born cleric believed to have inspired recent attacks in the United States. The American Civil Liberties …
As a senator, Barack Obama spoke eloquently of Americans deciding that “their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness, is not enough.” But the hunger for a larger purpose in public life remains unfulfilled.
Hoping to bolster the spirits of this political base and make a late-stage to working voters, President Barack Obama will address a major gathering of union workers in Wisconsin on Labor Day.
During a hastily-called Rose Garden event during which the sound system failed him, President Obama attempted today to communicate to the American public that his administration remains on top of the economic crisis.
President Obama on Monday chided Senate Republicans for blocking a bill that would offer tax breaks and ease credit to small businesses, and said the measure was necessary to boost hiring and economic growth.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama exhorted Congress on Monday to make passing a long-languishing small business aid package its first order of business when it returns next month from its summer break. “I ask Senate Republicans …
Michael Tomasky: How Glenn Beck can get away with turning civil rights into its opposite.
Before President Obama addresses the nation on Tuesday night to talk about his withdrawal of troops from Iraq, he intends to telephone the man whose Iraq policy he bitterly opposed: former President George W. Bush.
