Barack Obama

Michael I. Niman's projections for 2013.

Gerald Epstein: President Obama did not have to make this deal, it's a debacle being called a win

Bill Black: Compromise on tax hikes on rich and allowing payroll taxes to rise sets the ground for a “grand betrayal” yet to come.

The sun will rise on Thursday morning to shine down upon the end of the 112th Congress, the single most useless do-nothing assembly of fools and failures in …

Operation Streamline turns trespassing across an international border into a criminal offense for the first time in US history.

Just as Boehner has been under pressure from his right, Obama faces a virtual Tea Party of the left that sees his compromise as capitulation.

The president won re-election promising to raise taxes on those earning more than $250,000. Now he's already capitulating.

A final deal has been reached between Senate and President Obama in regards to the fiscal cliff, and while it is victory in some ways, it is failure …

House radicals have jumped out of Boehner's frying pan and into Obama's fire, argues Jack Rasmus.

For the first time since the collapse of the old Soviet Union, two major nuclear powers are bumping up against one another.