I just attended the State Dinner, where I met Obama. Meeting a President throws you off balance, no matter how prepared you are. I blurted out a mild Sarah Palin joke. He gave a noncommittal smile.
The Alaska State Trooper at the center of Sarah Palin's so-called "Troopergate Scandal" has broken his more than year-long silence since his embattled divorce with Palin's sister.
Instead of trying to play the "let's try to make everybody happy and ultimately make no one happy" game again, Obama could do what many believe he truly wants to, and end the war.
I've never been one prone to hyperbole so take my word that calling award-winning journalist Ahmed Rashid one of the world's foremost experts on Afgha...
I love the Thanksgiving holiday. I love cooking great food, sharing tall tales with loved ones, and having nothing but big fun. I always use this day to reflect on where I am personally and professionally.
Now the Get FISA Right movement has spread far beyond Obama's campaign supporters. In Congress, the rush is on
How could a man who aroused so much hope be losing support so dramatically? And what lessons can be learned for politicians all around the world?
Roosevelt thought sacrifice cause for celebration. He proclaimed Nov. 23, 1944, "a national day of Thanksgiving." Now another president faces Thanksgiving with troops dying in the field.
The lies that we are getting from the Republicans, supported too often by the mainstream media, have put the entire federal deficit and debt onto Barack Obama's shoulders. Well, here's the truth about it.
Recent press reports suggest that President Obama is likely to try to sugarcoat his announcement next week of a major military escalation in Afghanist...
Unlike the wide coverage given to the tedious sessions President Obama has held about Afghanistan, the planning for the White House State Dinner for...
From the stimulus to health care, Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives on his way to corrupt legislation and frantic efforts to compromise for the votes of corporate Democrats or "moderate" Republicans.
It's a measure of the change in the discourse that David Bromwich now keeps a sort of Times Watch in the Huffington Post, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books.
For many Republicans, none more so than Rudy Giuliani, the KSM trial is merely an opportunity to get some media attention and take a cheap shot at the president.
"I have thankfulness that we live in a country where we have the freedom to speak, even though Todd has never done so actually."
There was never doubt the moment General Stanley McChrystal flatly told President Obama last summer that the US must deploy up to 45,000 more troops ...
It's not uncommon for a president to recommend journalistic work. It's rarer for the process to happen entirely online, as in the case of Ron Brownstein's blog post on Harry Reid's health care bill.
Two seminal events are quickly approaching -- elections and a referendum on the unity of the country -- and the international community is concerned that they will lead to new violence.
Dear Mr. President--Since you were in Asia, you may have missed Bill Moyers' show last Friday night, about LBJ's radio clips as he reluctantly escalat...
The US and China both have a major interest in dealing with the negative impacts of their reliance on coal. It's time to get beyond rhetoric to start working through the details.
As I watched President Obama and PM Singh, it was clear that what was being signaled from the administration is a sincere effort to stress the "deepening cooperation" between our two countries.
