Tag: Barack Obama

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh glances at reporters during a meeting with Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court may end the EPA’s fight on climate change

William Murray · July 25, 2018 11:16 pm

Barack Obama and Alice Johnson

Alice Johnson recalls ‘feeling of betrayal’ from Obama, urges working with Trump

Steven Nelson · July 25, 2018 8:25 pm

Workers tend to oil pump jacks behind a natural gas flare near Watford City, N.D., on Oct. 22, 2015.

Energy and Environment

Interior reverses Obama-era rules for drillers to pay for fixing up the environment

John Siciliano · July 24, 2018 9:31 pm

Former US President Barack Obama arrives at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, July 17, 2018 to deliver the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture. Obama urged Africans and people around the world to respect human rights and equal opportunity in his speech to mark the late Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday.

Beltway Confidential

Five things ‘The Final Year’ documentary teaches us about Obama’s foreign policy and statecraft

Tom Rogan · July 24, 2018 4:26 pm

Patti Blagojevich: How our American dream turned into an American nightmare

Patti Blagojevich · July 24, 2018 12:00 am

In this photo taken on April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia. Butina, a 29-year-old gun-rights activist, served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the Kremlin, federal prosecutors charged Monday, July 16, 2018.

National Security

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina met with US officials during the Obama administration: Report

Josh Siegel · July 22, 2018 5:37 pm

Fact Check: Did Putin Give ‘Trump Valuable Info to Take Down’ the Clintons and Obamas?

Holmes Lybrand · July 20, 2018 5:59 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Here’s how Trump’s possible 2020 Democratic challengers stack up

W. James Antle III · July 20, 2018 4:00 am

Return of the Rhetorician

The Scrapbook · July 20, 2018 12:32 am

President Trump speaks at an event.

Trump: I’ll be Putin’s ‘worst enemy’ if warm relations do not ‘work out’

Naomi Lim · July 19, 2018 9:53 pm

National Security

James Comey’s cheerleading for Democrats plays into Trump’s hands

W. James Antle III · July 19, 2018 4:00 am

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, attends the European Council On Foreign Relations Annual Council Meeting in Paris on May 29, 2018.

George Soros calls Obama his ‘greatest disappointment’

Caitlin Yilek · July 18, 2018 7:12 pm