Tag: Obama

Will the GOP team up with Wal-Mart’s data specialist?

Americans are starting to feel the pain. They just don’t know it yet.

When it comes to Israel, Palestine, and Iran, it could all come crashing down.

Obama’s energy pick has a wealth of business connections.

The president has exercised his pardoning power less frequently than his four immediate predecessors.

Why did 13 percent of appointed positions remain unfilled after the President’s first term?

Most drone strikes are directed at unidentified targets—not U.S. citizens or known Al Qaeda leaders—with murky justification.

The sequester won’t hurt most Americans directly. Trickle-down and austerity economics, in the long run, will.

Long after the US government claims to have shut down its secret prisons, detainees remain unaccounted for.

Experts weigh in on the transparency gains of the last four years and what’s in store in the next four.

The strategic importance of Keystone XL.

Obama should focus on the predominant concerns of most Americans—joblessness, economic insecurity, and the fall of real wages.

What constitutes ‘necessary and appropriate force’?

Post-Legal drones, the Bin Laden tax, and other wonders of our American world.

How Obama is unraveling Reagan Republicanism.

The U.S. is conducting drone strikes in at least three countries beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. Here’s a reading guide to understanding the our shadow wars.

Richard Tofel, president of ProPublica, provides his thoughts on Monday’s inauguration speech.

Why climate change won’t wait for the president.

Micah Zenko talks about the uncertain motives underlying US drone policy.