Four years later, facing a slower than expected economic recovery and a congress that spends more time on anti-abortion legislation than investments to infrastructure, it does take audacity to hope.
HuffPost has commissioned a series of satirical videos that will call attention to the contradictions between Campaigning Obama and Governing Obama. (...
The Daily Caller has an "exclusive" report Tuesday that sounds an awful lot like an "exclusive" report from many, many years ago, but here goes: Presi...
Just as Congress needs to implement an austerity agenda targeted on budget cutting and expense reduction, it needs to implement an audacity agenda targeted on growth, revenue generation and individual economic well-being.
Reagan, Roosevelt, and Johnson were "conviction" presidents. They knew what they wanted to do as leaders. Barack Obama's rise to the presidency reflects an altogether different experience.
PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) ā A Greek court has released from custody the American captain of a boat participating in an international flotilla aiming to b...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ā Authorities in Greece say they have arrested the captain of a boat that was to be part of a Gaza-bound flotilla trying to deli...
Senator Kirk, we are your constituents. It's not too late for you to acknowledge that your earlier call for military action against us jeopardizes our safety and to reverse your claim which insinuates that we are dangerous people.
A year ago, activists tried to break the blockade of Gaza with an international flotilla of ships. They failed. Now an even larger flotilla is preparing to set sail in June. And when the Audacity of Hope sets sail, I will be on it.
Last summer, Latinos were in the streets protesting what they seen as unfair immigration laws. They played a proactive role in rectifying an injustice. Why aren't the rest of us?
It is strange that a candidate who was able to read voters so well has become a president who seems to think citizens simply want legislation. Voters don't care about legislation; they care about outcomes.
By almost any sane man's litmus test -- it is America's role as a moderator in the Middle East and not as an inquisitor at home that will promote peace and undermine "global terrorism."
Some have seen Barack Obama as shape-shifter, world-class networker, memoirist, savior or putz.
In "The Bridge," David Remnick, editor of the New Yor...
All members of Congress take an oath that includes these words: "I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter." Most -- maybe all -- have violated that pledge.
Just a week after being unceremoniously ousted as the editor of Harper's Magazine, Roger Hodge has a book proposal out on submission from Jin Auh at t...
If the president is to save his presidency from a fatal weakening, he needs promptly to work through his inner dialogue and resolve the contesting urge to be loved with the urge to be true to himself.
It's time to be bold, Mr. President. Where is that audacity of hope? It's time to introduce a bold jobs-creation bill, and to replace your Wall Street-stained economic team members.
Obama books started with the president himself launched onto the literary scene through the strength of his own writing and his spellbinding speech at...
UPDATE: The New York Times reports that Jenny Frost was "surprised by the decision" to restructure the Crown Publishing Group:
"I think that Markus h...