Barack Obama

The first volume of former President Barack Obama’s memoir is coming out Nov. 17, two weeks after Election Day. It’s called “A Promised Land” and will cover his swift and historic rise to the White House and his first term in office.The publication date for the second volume has not…

Getty CatholicVote, a national political advocacy group, has launched a $9.7 million ad campaign against Joe Biden. The campaign kicked off with digital ads in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Biden has been criticized by conservatives for his record on abortion, which was a major theme at the 2020 Republican National Convention.…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change as it promotes fossil fuel interests and the extraction of natural resources from public lands.Judges have ruled administration officials ignored…

After Ronald Reagan’s meandering performance in his initial 1984 debate with Walter Mondale, the political press corps responded with the joyous discovery that there was indeed a horse race. A front-page New York Times story by Howell Raines was headlined, “Chance of Revival Seen for Mondale After TV Debate.” Reagan…

Marjorie Taylor Greene in a campaign ad. Screenshot/YouTube Kevin Van Ausdal, the Democrat candidate in the race for Georgia's 14th congressional district, announced on Friday he was dropping out of the race and moving out of the state. Van Ausdal was running opposite the GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene, the…

If it feels to you as though the Covid-19 emergency is never going to end, that may be because September 13 will mark its six-month anniversary. Six months is a very long time for a public health emergency to last—too long, we can all agree. But it’s more than enough time…

Democrats now control every branch of government in California, which is home to what are arguably the most ambitious climate policies in the country. California is currently burning. Some 900 wildfires throughout the state have painted its skies an eerie, dull orange. The images are a warning of the dangers…

At Amazon, people aren't only expected to participate in meetings, they're obliged to speak up if they disagree with something that was said. Getty Images The overwhelming majority of business leaders find most meetings largely unproductive, per a 2017 survey conducted by the Harvard Business Review. Unproductive meetings are usually…

Win McNamee / Getty Images Donald Trump dislikes Barack Obama so much that he once filmed a video in which he berated and then “fired” an actor hired to impersonate the 44th president, according to ex-fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen said that Trump “ritualistically belittled” the actor, described as “Faux-Bama,” and…

FILE PHOTO: Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg endorses former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's campaign at Chicken Scratch in Dallas, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Elizabeth FrantzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday added former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under…