President Obama – Obama?s Realism May Not Play Well in Cairo?s Streets (New York Times)
In Europe, idealism and realpolitik fit easily into one package. But President Obama will face a new challenge speaking in Egypt, where people feel crushed by the state. read...
Environmentalists feel betrayed by the EPA's decision not to block new mountaintop mining projects. With the election of President Obama, environmentalists had expected to see the end of the "Appalachian apocalypse," their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off whole mountains. read...
US President Barack Obama swept First Lady Michelle Obama off to a Broadway show -- to honor a promise made in the heat of his gruelling 2008 campaign. read...
After a long day of campaigning on July 8, candidate Barack Obama arrived at his Chicago headquarters for a three-hour brainstorming session about a suddenly hot issue: energy and climate change. read...
Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began. read...
