Barack Obama

Faced with an unprecedented number of sources of insecurity--terrorism in the homeland, failed wars, an economy in decline--Americans are scared. Like a drowning person, they thrash…
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The administration announced last Friday that it would double the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, to 3,100; request an additional $5.6 billion for the war; and put U.S. trainers closer…
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HAVANA -- In the days prior to the midterm elections, a media campaign was launched, urging President Obama to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. It is obvious that the promoters of…
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Normalizing relations between the two nations will require a series of presidential actions. Here is a roadmap for how that could happen...whenever.
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While immigration was generally a muted issue in midterm elections dominated by the GOP, Obama promised the next day to move ahead on his own to remove the threat of deportation or…
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Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, are only the most widely known of the countless numbers of black people killed by police or vigilantes during the…
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The Obama administration's anger is "red-hot" over Israel's settlement policies, and the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama's understanding of the Middle East.…
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He has the authority to end most travel restrictions, remove Cuba from the terror list, and modernize trade and other policies, without risking the threat of political backlash that…
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If we had a ‘Most Wanted’ poster depicting Cuba’s worst enemy in the U.S. Congress it would not be Republican. The title belongs to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren has just been handed a giant political opportunity.
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