Tag: Barack Obama

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends the opening of the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, in Nyack, N.Y.

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton cheers the end of civility

Philip Wegmann · October 9, 2018 6:53 pm

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in Washington.

No, the Trump administration never predicted 7 degrees of global warming

James Taylor · October 9, 2018 4:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following the final vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018.

McConnell ready for another Supreme Court vacancy

Katelyn Caralle · October 8, 2018 12:28 pm

The sky isn’t falling on Trump’s America

Washington Examiner · October 8, 2018 12:00 am

Finding jobs after leaving the U.S. military can be a challenge for veterans and their spouses.

The lessons of America’s longest war: Afghanistan still a question mark after 17 years of fighting

Jamie McIntyre · October 7, 2018 4:00 am

Jim Mattis, U.S. secretary of defense, center, listens as U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaks during a meeting with Baltic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Trump says the U.S. will expand exports of LNG to Baltic region and will hold a summit with the Baltic presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to discuss ways to expand economic opportunities.

Beltway Confidential

Trump has a new counterterrorism strategy. It’s better than Obama’s, but it could go further

Tom Rogan · October 6, 2018 4:00 pm

Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, speaks at a town hall event at the Grand Texan Hotel and Convention Center.

Beto O’Rourke: ‘I don’t think we’re interested’ in an Obama endorsement

Diana Stancy Correll · October 4, 2018 7:57 pm

A monitor displays Amazon.com Inc. stock information at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2018. Amazon.com Inc.Â briefly became America's second trillion-dollar company on Tuesday after adding $434 billion to its market cap this year.

Amazon’s corrupt minimum wage ploy

Washington Examiner · October 4, 2018 12:17 pm

First lady Melania Trump listens to Cape Coast Castle museum educator Kwesi Essel-Blankson during a tour of Cape Coast Castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, on Wednesday. Cape Coast Castle was a "slave castle" used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. First lady Melania Trump is visiting Africa on her first solo international trip.

‘Very emotional’: Melania Trump visits former slave-holding fort in Ghana

Caitlin Yilek · October 3, 2018 6:05 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018.

Lindsey Graham: No vote to fill Supreme Court vacancy if seat opens during primaries in final year of Trump term

Caitlin Yilek · October 3, 2018 4:32 pm

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TARP was rank pinstripe protectionism

Timothy P. Carney · October 3, 2018 12:37 pm

Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Florida House Republicans criticize Trump’s ‘deeply troubling’ mercury pollution rule plan

Josh Siegel · October 2, 2018 6:30 pm