Tag: Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama says he has kept his promise to America by working with Congress to change a tax code that he says too often benefited the wealthy at ...

What can the 44th president really achieve in his second term? Here are 10 ideas. If you were to print out all the white papers, op-eds, and think-tank reports urging ...

Back when Barack Obama began his first term, I argued that we shouldn't expect much from his handling of foreign policy. I was pretty sure he'd do a better job than his ...

US President Barack Obama has cut short his holiday in Hawaii and returned to Washington to try to persuade Congress to reach an agreement avoiding the “fiscal cliff.”   The ...

President Obama summoned congressional leaders to a Friday summit at the White House in a last-ditch effort to protect taxpayers, unemployed workers and the fragile U.S. recovery from severe austerity ...

At Jarusalem conference, Ambassador Dennis Ross says Israel, US likely to converge on issues of Iran, Syria and "Arab Awakening." 2013 is going to be a very decisive year for ...

President Obama said Tuesday that the United States would formally recognize a coalition of Syrian opposition groups as that country’s legitimate representative, intensifying the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to ...

“Dont play brinkmanship with me” warned Barack Obama as he called on Republicans to compromise in crucial fiscal cliff talks. Addressing US business leaders, the president claimed that Congressional budget ...

How the president can seize back the initiative on foreign policy. In foreign affairs, the central challenge now facing President Barack Obama is how to regain some of the ground ...

The United States warned Syria in no uncertain terms Monday not to use chemical weapons amid intelligence reports indicating President Bashar al-Assad's regime could be preparing to take that step as ...