When Air Force One touches down in Ghana on Friday evening, it's sure to be another goosebump moment of the Obama presidency. The rich symbolism in Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan immigrant, visiting Africa as the President of the United States, and Michelle Obama, the descendent of enslaved...

In the opening remarks of his news conference on Tuesday, President Obama mentioned a climate change bill working its way through the House of Representatives, hailing it as "legislation that will finally spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution...

Vice President Joe Biden has been hustling to plug the Recovery Act. On Thursday he went to Pennsylvania and Kansas, for the groundbreakings of bridge and highway projects funded by federal stimulus money, and Friday it was Kalamazoo, Michigan, for a ceremony marking interchange reconstruction.

The trips are the...