Barack Obama
President Obama Pledges to Cut U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 28 Percent By 2025
Who needs advice and consent anymore?
Obama Doubles His Commutation Total in One Day
The affected prisoners include a marijuana grower sentenced to life.
The Man Who Brought Obamacare Back to the Supreme Court
Competitive Enterprise Institute's Lawson Bader on King v. Burwell
The President Stops Laughing About Pot
Obama's shifting marijuana views reflect changes in public opinion.
Obama's Poll-Following Marijuana Metamorphosis
The president's shifting pot positions reflect changes in public opinion.
Obama's 'Signature Achievement' Will Be Bypassing the Constitution
Obama is on his way to circumventing checks and balances with more regularity than any president in history.
Mandatory Voting Is a Terrible—And Insulting—Idea
The political parties have no right to demand our stamp of approval for their elections.
New Jersey Has a Law That Makes It a Crime Not to Surrender Your Drugs to Police
President Obama says marijuana shouldn't be a priority for young people, but all the young people whose lives have been ruined by the drug war would disagree.
Obama Says Legalizing Marijuana Would Be 'Progress,' but Why the Rush?
The president thinks repealing pot prohibition should be young Americans' lowest priority.
Did President Obama Admit the US is Controlled by Space Aliens?
Obama UFO joke on Jimmy Kimmel Live throws conspiracy theorists into a frenzy.
Obama's Tepid Response to the Clinton Email Scandal
Mr. President, are you not troubled that your secretary of state had a non-secure email account and used it for all of her work?
Rand Paul: Iran Letter Was Meant to Strengthen President's Hand
To show Iranians there are hardliners in an effort to squeeze a better deal.
Obama's Lone Wolf Presidency
When the president effectively writes the laws, Congress is effectively neutered.
Snowden Is Talking About Coming Back to U.S., Says Russian Lawyer
President Obama: You can still do the right thing.
The President's Police Reform Dream Journal
A task force on upgrading policing tactics calls for more guidelines, more training, more spending, but lacks introspection on the state of our laws.
Netanyahu Does The Impossible: Divides Congress on Israel
Bibi's speech to Congress threatens the uniquely rock-solid bipartisan support for Israel.
What if the Government Fears Freedom?
What if Bush and Obama have been wrong about the priority of their constitutional duties as president?
Obama Is No BFF of Latino Immigrants or Civil Liberties
His Criminal Alien Removal Initiative is brutal and hypocritical.
President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Pipeline Legislation
Evidently bows to environmentalist lobby
Rand Paul: "Mistake" to Jab at Obama's Love of America as Guiliani Did
Rand Paul refuses to leap into GOP scrum of attacking Obama for assumptions about his motives
If ISIS Isn't Islamic, Were Crusaders Christian?
A summit on violent extremism at the White House aims to tackle radical Islamism in part by quibbling over definitions.
When Americans Practiced Terrorism
Obama had a good point at the National Prayer Breakfast.
War in Afghanistan Escalating
The pace of raids in Afghanistan has increased and the Afghan president is requesting the U.S. slow down its withdrawal.
Obama Is a Good BS'er, But He's a Terrible Liar
What's clear is that Obama isn't shy about pulling in religion when it suits his political needs.
Keystone XL Pipeline: Threatened Veto As Symbolic Progressivism
House approves Keystone XL pipeline construction.
President Obama AUMF for ISIS War Almost Ready
White House says AUMF would be limited to three years and only allow specific kinds of deployments, but covers ISIS and "associated forces."
The Oppressive Logic of Obama's Plan to Chase Down Foreign Earnings
It won't bring back the money but will drive America down the road to serfdom
All the President's Voxsplainers
Remember when Vox was going to give us all a better way to "understand the news"? What we get instead is a better way to become courtiers to power.
Obama Needs to Answer These Questions
From Obamacare to Charlie Hebdo, the president has some explaining to do.
Republicans on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Over Obama's "Executive Amnesty"
They can't figure out a way to fund the DHS and defund Obama's executive action
President Obama Updates National Security Strategy For First Time in Five Years
America's national security strategy is to take responsibility for world security, peace, and prosperity.
Obama's Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Will Cost $22 Billion
Yeah, that's bad for taxpayers.
Obama's Clemency Record Is Still One of the Worst Ever
Despite belated pardons and a few more commutations, the president's mercy is rarely seen.
EPA Hates On the Keystone XL Pipeline: Gives Obama an Excuse to Deny Construction Permit
A novel idea: Why not let the builders decide whether or not it is economic to construct?
"Obama's 10 New Taxes": Collect 'em all!
President Obama's budget doesn't just propose spending more money than ever before. It also raises taxes all over the place.
Robert Gates: Destroying ISIS as Unrealistic as a Ground Invasion of Iraq
President Obama says he wants authorization for military action in Iraq but doesn't need it. Will there be a substantive debate in Congress?
