Barack Obama

So what can a Democratic president do to restore liberal norms? The resentment that Mr. Trump has exploited is plainly rooted in decades of middle-class stagnation and rising inequality. A left-of-center candidate like Elizabeth Warren would drain the toxins …

TORONTO With less than a week to go before the federal election, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is hoping his pledge to save money for Canadians resonates with voters. Scheer released his full platform last week. It includes a universal tax cut, tax credi…

Twitter cant tell us whether, or how, Tuesdays CNN/New York Times debate might change voters minds. But it can give us the perspectives of some of the people with expertise on primary races: veteran campaign strategists and consultants from both parties. He…

Twitter cant tell us whether, or how, Tuesdays debate might change voters minds. But it can give us the perspectives of some of the people with expertise on primary races: veteran campaign strategists and consultants from both parties. Here is a sampling of…

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…