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After ten months in office, Barack Obama must feel he has been in a long surreal tennis match with nobody on the other side of the net. In...

The War on Terror, confusing and anxious-making as it may be, has produced one encouraging side effect in American politics: The gung-ho is ...

As summer vacation ends, the President is looking like the principal of a dysfunctional high school, trying to quell yelling in the corridor...

While the President serves beer to Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley in the White House today, Lucia Whalen will be at work in Cambridge,...

Nobody ever accused the President of being a slow learner. "President Obama tried Friday," says the New York Times , "to defu...

The White House and ABC are taking flak for their health care infomercial last night for the wrong reasons. As usual, the objections are po...

The table is set for the Senate to cut the heart out of health care reform, with an ailing Ted Kennedy pitted against Max Baucus , recipien...

All the eloquence about World War II comes from Americans too young to have experienced it--Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation,...

If nothing else, this President is setting records for communication as he visits the Middle East to say a few words privately and publicly...

The 9/11 world is back with full force as Barack Obama makes the case for a judicious approach to terrorism, Dick Cheney argues that only b...

As the President begins one-on-one interviews with replacements for David Souter, his eventual choice will be only the start of a four- or ...

No one will bridge the passionate gap on abortion, but Barack Obama, as he has on other issues, spoke yesterday for those whose position ca...

As Barack Obama, who changed the face of America's executive branch, prepares to name his first Supreme Court justice, speculation focu...

His press conferences are dazzling performances, but to get a glimpse of Barack Obama in the round takes the oldest journalistic setting of ...

On the evidence of his press conference , our president of 100 days seems so right for this critical time that it tempts a secular humanist ...

The news today will be about Barack Obama's whirlwind energy steering the Ship of State for the first 100 days, but below the water line...

As the Drudge Report hyperventilates with 18 headline links about swine flu, President Obama tells Americans the outbreak is "not a c...

"Obama is positioning the Democrats as the party of order, responsibility and small-town values," David Brooks writes in the New Y...

In releasing the Bush memos , Barack Obama reaffirms that responsibility starts at the top by stopping practices that "undermine our mo...

The reviews will be mixed, but the President, to use his own phrase, "did OK"--and probably a little better than that--in his firs...