Tag: Barack Obama

A poster of Cuba's Fidel Castro hangs on the wall of a food market next to plate that reads in Spanish "I'm looking at you" in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Obama is taking the wrong side in Cuba

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2015 4:01 am

Sanders has long styled himself a Socialist and seeks income redistribution; Corbyn wants government ownership of railroads and coal mines; and both look with favor on 90 percent tax rates. (AP)

The strange death of the center-left

Michael Barone · August 17, 2015 4:01 am

Julian Bond, former board chairman of the NAACP, speaks during an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. He passed away Saturday, August 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Civil rights icon Julian Bond dies at 75

Daniel Chaitin · August 16, 2015 5:04 pm

"Even with your enemies, even with your adversaries, I do think that you have to have the capacity to put yourself occasionally in their shoes," the president said in an interview last month. (AP)

National Security

Four ways the Obama administration defends Iran

Charles Hoskinson · August 16, 2015 4:01 am

Reverend Al Sharpton speaking at the National Action Network headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

National Security

Rev. Sharpton pushes Iran deal

Daniel Chaitin · August 15, 2015 8:34 pm

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., arrives before Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, and Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew, arrive to testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2015, to review the Iran nuclear agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sen. Flake announces opposition to Iran deal

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 8:26 pm

President Barack Obama looks to Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he and first lady Michelle Obama leave services honoring the life of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Friday, June 26, 2015, at the College of Charleston TD Arena, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama, Clinton to meet Saturday at Martha’s Vineyard party

Joseph Lawler · August 15, 2015 6:03 pm

President Obama will sign an imperfect bill funding the government in order to avoid shutting down the federal government. (AP Photo)

Obama: Task force will improve policing with ‘communities of color’

Barbara Boland · August 15, 2015 3:35 pm

Obama and Hillary, Not Jeb, Responsible for Iraq Today

Derek Harvey · August 15, 2015 2:18 pm

Washington Secrets

Zogby report card: Vacation doesn’t hide fiscal, tax and ISIS troubles

Paul Bedard · August 15, 2015 11:00 am

Carlos Gutierrez, the Cuba-born former Commerce secretary under President George W. Bush, was on hand for the official opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana Friday. (AP File Photo)

A Bush official on Obama’s shortlist for Cuba ambassador?

Susan Crabtree · August 15, 2015 4:01 am

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Black Lives Matter

Washington Examiner · August 14, 2015 9:08 pm