Barack Obama

This is exactly what we saw in Dayton in 2016. Our county was one of the largest to flip from Barack Obama to Donald Trump. Progressives, especially young people and African-Americans, felt disengaged and stayed home. Working-class voters, tired of decades of…

Defending the law, Jeffrey B. Wall, a lawyer for the federal government, urged the justices not to undo what he said was great progress. If the board is shut down in Puerto Rico, Mr. Wall said, I do think it imperils a process on which we have made really s…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefly poked his head out of his gilded panic room on Monday to address reports that he ran a quiet lobbying campaign to reassure right-wing critics of his company that he shares their concerns. In his view, hes guilty of nothing…

A trio of Americans on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work in the fight against poverty, including Esther Duflo, the youngest-ever economics laureate and only the second woman to win the prize. Duflo -- a 46-year-old French-American professor…

My gut tells me more sometimes than anybody elses brain can ever tell me," he said late last year. He was discussing the Federal Reserve, but could just as easily been talking foreign policy; in 2017 he told a reporter, right after his first meeting with Pres…

My gut tells me more sometimes than anybody elses brain can ever tell me," he said late last year. He was discussing the Federal Reserve, but could just as easily been talking foreign policy; in 2017 he told a reporter, right after his first meeting with Pres…

But this is not a strategy without risk, Mr. Goldberg noted. Voters in a general election, including Republicans and independents, do not share the liberal views about race that white Democrats do. Positions that some leading Democrats have embraced, includin…

Image copyrightGetty Images Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is among the nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize - the 100th to be awarded - with the winner being announced on Friday. But what is the Nobel Prize and why is it so prestigious? Wh…

President Donald Trump has repeatedly pointed to the nation's steady economic health as the strongest indicator of his success, calling it "terrific" and "the greatest in the history of the country." Lately he's used it as a defense to fend off the Democratic…

Sean Hannity and Eric Trump continued hyping unproven accusations against Joe Biden on Thursday and they dragged former President Barack Obama into it. On Hannity’s prime time Fox News show, the cable news personality and the president’s son resurrected long…