The U.S. Constitution includes immigration as one of the listed (i.e., enumerated) powers of the federal government. Education is not such a...

President Barak Obama of the U.S., and Herman Van Rompuy and José Barroso of the E.U. held a news conference following the EU-US Summit at ...

U.S. President Obama’s 2010 speech at the UN’s annual opening lacked tangible proposals.   For example, he urged progress on the Middle Ea...

In the early evening of March 28, 2011, President Obama addressed the American people and the world to explain his administration’s involv...

In April, 2010, President Obama gave a speech in New York City to counter what he called “the furious efforts of industry lobbyists” geared...

In his 2013 State of the Union Address, President Obama cited brain research as an example of how the government could and in fact should...

In his speech on April 13, 2011 on reducing the U.S. Government deficits, President Obama identified two strains that had run through the...

In a poll in 2011, only 22% of Jewish voters in the U.S. said they approved of President Obama’s handling of Israel. Dan Senor pointed to ...

In 2011, President Obama proposed "to ride to the rescue of states" that had borrowed billions of dollars from the federal govern...

To Aaron Swartz, the subject of the documentary,  The Internet’s Own Boy  (2014), the major concern in his day regarding the internet was n...

According to a piece in the National Review, “George Washington might have had the right idea. Second inaugural addresses should be short a...

The 2012 U.S. presidential election was the first in which neither of the major-party candidates participated in the campaign-matching s...

Presidents in governments are called to be leaders, which means advocating a vision of change from the status quo. Otherwise, they are mere...

A constitutional system of checks and balances is premised on the assumption that government officials will seek to get as much power as th...

How well do voters (i.e., an electorate) know and thus are able to assess people running for public office? As the proportion of people who...

On September 15, 2013, the White House announced that Larry Summers, Barak Obama’s prior chief economic advisor and a Secretary of the U....

Barak Obama had a tendency to modify his manner of speaking, and even his dialect, to fit with his audience. Listening to his speech to the...

It is certainly more politic to declare the state of the union to be strong rather than weak. In his State of the Union speech in January ...

In June 2011, a bipartisan group of members of U.S. House of Representatives objected to the refusal of the Obama administration to obtain...

From the time of the Obama Administration, a major newspaper concluded: “What haunts the Obama administration is what still haunts the coun...