Class of 2013, your path to this moment has wound you through years of breathtaking change. You were born as freedom forced its way through a wall in Berlin, tore down an Iron Curtain across Europe.
President Obama
President Obama Brushes Back His Activist Left
Obama looks to find common ground with Republicans on the Keystone XL pipeline and on Social Security.
Obama, Give In to the Irrational GOP
Obama should cave on tax hikes to achieve his other goals.
President Obama’s New Meal Ticket Strategy
Through meeting and eating, the spirit of Washington is shifting, and the commonalities between the two parties are taking center stage for the first time in several years.
Pentagon Sequestysteria
Ever since the Cold War ended, the Pentagon has been pushing to become more “flexible” and “agile,” to use two words frequently heard at Defense Department briefings and found burrowed into innumerable Pentagon …
Cyber-Security: Stand Down, for Now, Congress
Washington, it seems, can’t get no satisfaction.
After years of often-alarmist rhetoric about the threat of deadly cyber-attacks – and repeated calls for government to ‘do something’ to address the threat – President Obama …
President Obama Wants to Go All of the Above on Energy. But Will Anyone Join Him?
At his State of the Union speech, Obama promised to boost oil and gas production even as he supports clean energy. It’s smart policy—but can he make it work?
In Tuesday’s State of the Union, a Return to First Principles for Obama
Before the economic collapse, President Obama focused on how the middle-class could thrive in an increasingly outsourced and automated world. It’s a message he’ll return to tonight.
We the People
The White House petition drive offers a big megaphone for quirky causes. It’s also helping Obama advance his political agenda.
Viewpoint: Why Obama’s Second Term Isn’t Doomed
Conventional wisdom holds that second presidential terms tend to be somehow fatally cursed—Eisenhower and the U-2; Nixon and Watergate; Reagan and Iran-contra; Clinton and impeachment; George W. Bush and Iraq and the financial …
Leveraging
See where GOP candidate Mitt Romney has just released a roster of more than 300 retired generals and admirals who are endorsing him for President. They range from former Army general Tommy Franks, who commanded the invasions of …
When “No Acts of Terror” Actually Means “This Act of Terror”
When bad things happen, it’s human nature to accentuate the positive, as Johnny Mercer put it. That’s precisely what the Obama Administration did following the September 11 killing of U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and …
