Barack Obama

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is completing a book about President Trump's national security team and policies. The opinions expressed in this comme…

But the individual has hired the same legal team as the first whistle-blower. That, and the claim of firsthand knowledge, suggests testimony that might bolster the impeachment case against Mr. Trump and further undermine one of his main defense claims: that t…

Part of the challenge facing Ms. Warren is the warm feelings that many black voters have for Mr. Biden after he served two terms as Mr. Obamas vice president. I think its really hard for candidates like Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, anybody, …

Several Democratic candidates reported far smaller fund-raising amounts for the third quarter on Tuesday. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont reported bringing in $25.3 million; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., announced that he had raised $19.1 millio…

Under the current administration, former and current homeland security officials have expressed concern that the agency formed to combat terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been relegated largely to enforce Mr. Trumps restrictive immigrat…

In 2013, in the midst of the Iran nuclear deal negotiations, American and Iranian officials discussed the possibility of President Barack Obama and Mr. Rouhani shaking hands at the General Assembly. Ultimately the two only shared a phone call but even that w…

President Donald Trump started his Saturday morning routine with a tweet: Can you imagine if these Do Nothing Democrat Savages, people like Nadler, Schiff, AOC Plus 3, and many more, had a Republican Party who would have done to Obama what the Do Nothings are…

WASHINGTON Mark A. Milley never planned to spend his life in the military. He faced a choice between joining crew-cut cadets at West Point and attending an Ivy League university. As he weighed the decision, his father, a Marine who fought at Iwo Jima in Worl…

Mike Leach talks about Washington State football the same way he shares tales of tracking raccoons, opinions on Halloween candy and tweets featuring a doctored video of President Barack Obama meant to rile up and confuse an older conservative base. That is to…

Any question about the mind-set guiding the administration should have been put to rest by President Trumps icy explanation to reporters earlier this month for why he was barring residents of the hurricane-battered Bahamas from taking refuge in the United Sta…