Barack Obama

Many publications have advice columnists, but none has our old friend Colonel Manners. His assignment: to answer questions from Americans puzzled by the abstruse intricacies of the American way …

Although TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion's share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands producers was approved on November 19 by …

The roots of the Affordable Care Act web site failures may start in the Reagan Administration's fixation with contracting out federal services.

Palestinians should not lend their name to a charade of endless negotiations while historic Palestine disappears.

From October 22 to 25, 2013, pretrial hearings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people made little progress as the …

A heckler challenges Obama to do more to stop deportations, but does the president have the authority to do so?

A Taliban gunman shot Pakistani teen Malala Yousafzai point blank in the face for her outspokenness. Now the book “I Am Malala” tells her story of love and learning …

The New York Times finally reported on the extensive GOP communication campaigns to change public discourse. Then it published a piece of propaganda by that campaign on the front …

If the Fourth Circuit Court ruling that a subpoena for Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter James Risen's testimony about a source for his book is upheld,

Scorse describes how one private citizen succeeded in effecting a major change in the law for capital gains reporting.