The President and First Lady have reached out to galleries and private collectors asking for loans of modern art and art by women, African Americans, Asians and Hispanics.
Politico | Posted 06.28.2009 | Comedy
Whenever there's laughter in the James S. Brady Briefing Room -- by either the briefer or the briefed -- the official White House stenographer indicat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
The ongoing spat between the Obama White House and former vice president Dick Cheney has, to a large extent, marginalized the one other figure with se...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
In the next few weeks the Obama White House will introduce a sweeping package of regulatory reforms designed to prevent excesses and pitfalls in an ec...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
Under heavy criticism for a series of decisions on national security that resembled, for some, those of the Bush years, President Barack Obama hosted ...
John Lundberg | Posted 06.17.2009 | Living
President Obama described the first ever White House Poetry Jam as a chance to "celebrate the power of words and music to help us appreciate beauty, but also to understand pain."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
The lawyer pushing for the release of photographs showing the harsh treatment of suspected terrorist detainees said President Barack Obama was backtra...
Grist.org | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The AP has what looks like a blockbuster story today: "White House memo challenges EPA finding on warming." The Obama White House bashing the EPA proc...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
President Obama announced Monday a new name and a new mission for the White House office charged with dealing most closely with the American people. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics
In an interview that was fiery even by his standards, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused the Obama administration of coddling terrorists, tarr...
whitehouse.gov | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
In the President's last Weekly Address, he called on government to "recognize that we cannot meet the challenges of today with old habits and stale th...
Nicolaus Mills | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
Dog Days at the WhiteHouse By Nicolaus Mills At last Malia and Sasha Obama have the dog they were promised by their parents. Bo, a six-month-old P...
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.31.2009 | Style
The White House sent out an amazing collection of photos on Wednesday to mark the first 100 days of its newest resident. They also included some grea...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
One hundred days into office, Barack Obama's list of accomplishments is certainly immense. From the budget, passed by the Senate on Wednesday night, t...
Essence.com | Cynthia Gordy | Posted 05.28.2009 | Style
From invitation design and seating arrangements to celebrity scheduling and band booking, Associate Social Secretary Samantha Tubman helps with the de...
Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Firing 50 men and women who are fluent in Arabic solely because they are gay when we are fighting in the Arabic-speaking world? The mind boggles.
The Fix | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and perhaps the political person closest to the former Illinois Senator, makes a somewhat un...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
I was at the White House to witness the arrival of the First Dog of the United States.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
In a private conference call with Jewish leaders on Tuesday, the Obama White House reaffirmed that it has not decided to formally reengage negotiation...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
Independent journalists have tried to shine a spotlight on how groups like the Center for American Progress and MoveOn are now supporting the continuation of wars because their guy is now commander-in-chief.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi struck a discordant chord with the White House on Wednesday, claiming a "difference of opinion" with the administration's approac...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The United States will seek election to the U.N. Human Rights Council this year, the State Department said Tuesday, announcing the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Newsweek's Evan Thomas, who has the big cover story on the rather prickly relationship between the White House and Paul Krugman, offered a rather surp...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
Tammy Bruce, guest host for Laura Ingram's radio show, had some harsh words for First Lady Michelle Obama. Discussing the first lady's visit to a Was...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 06.29.2009 | Style