Barack Obama

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…

Chance the Rapper says even he doesn't have a direct dial to Barack Obama and Jay-Z

When he pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran, it was over the objections of a secretary of state, a national security adviser and a secretary of defense all since departed who urged him to build on the past agreement. Sixteen months later, he fired his ne…

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, …