Politics

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he opposes giving the President new fast-track powers.

America's “pivot” to Asia along with decades of heavy-handed policy give China an opportunity to rebalance global powers.

Here are eight with the power to truly create the universal opportunity the president called for.

The American Jobs Act would net 1.9 million new jobs and slice the unemployment rate by a percentage point.

Corporate interests that fought the president's re-election are lobbying for him to use the speech to call on Congress to enact Fast Track authority for the TPP.

On issues from domestic inequality to foreign policy, President Obama delivered the fifth State of the Union with a vow to take action on his own should Congress stonewall …

Amy Traub: Obama's $10.10 minimum wage hike is a clear victory for hundreds of thousands of workers of new or renewed contracts but will still exclude a large group …

David Cay Johnston: $10.10 minimum wage for federal contractors is a restoration not rise in wages since minimum wage is substantially lower now than in 1960s.

The real challenge for peacemakers is to reflect on the vision projected by President Obama in his Cairo and Jerusalem speeches — to recognize the equal humanity and rights …

Washington's pivot to Asia reminds us that the leading brains in the Pacific might as well still be in the pre-World War I era.