Barack Obama

Regardless of any feelings about the recent leader of the free world transitioning into a Nick Hornby protagonist, Mr. Obama makes a knockout music critic. Putting together these year-end lists is no picnic. When staff positions compelled me to assemble them,…

Former President Barack Obama has been privately praising presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), The Hill reported Monday. According to sources familiar with the interactions, Obama has been talking up Warren in conversations with donors who a…

President Donald Trump is determined on ensuring the Keystone XL Pipeline becomes a reality, including trying to squash lawsuits against him and the project. A court ruled Friday, however, against his motion to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit that could stop the 1…

Chicken and waffles have always been a culinary blind spot for me. As an Asian American from the Pacific Northwest, my foods growing up were steaming bowls of pho, take-out boxes piled with sticky-sweet chicken teriyaki, and occasionally, Claim Jumper's chee…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul who is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, on Saturday opened campaign offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, three battleground states crucial in next year's el…

Sherrilyn Ifill is the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc. (LDF). The views expressed in this commentary are hers. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN)Of all the ways the Trump administration has tried to roll b…

On December 29, 1835, the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota. Like many treaties the U.S. government signed with Native American tribes, this one benefited the United States at the expense of the Native nation. The Cherokee were forced to relinqu…

While speaking at an event in Singapore, former President Obama argued that if women ran every country in the world, there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes, and that women are indisputably better than men. What do you think? Of…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly half the U.S. counties carried by President Donald Trump in the 2016 election were arguably in recession at the time, with local economic output shrinking during a campaign that focused on the declining fortunes of blue-collar Am…

First Lady Melania Trump confides in remarkably few people, according to CNN reporter Kate Bennett. That fact makes reporting on the first lady difficult, Bennett said in a recent interview with New York magazine's The Cut. Keeping her circle so small likely …