MUCH OF THE 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier to put the government on a more sound financial footing. That second question will come rushing at the winner as soon as the votes are tallied. Absent any action, a series of tax hikes and spending cuts will take
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday endorsed Barack Obama’s bid for re-election, citing the Democratic president’s efforts to wind down the war in Afghanistan and tackle terrorism as well as an improving U.S. economy. U.S. President Barack Obama listens to former Secretary of State Colin Powell (L) during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White Hous
U.S. President Barack Obama's ongoing trip to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania is his best -- and perhaps last -- chance at Africa policy redemption. After the five disappointing years of false starts, inattention, and policy drift that I wrote about below, this visit could set the stage for a strong finish. The trip itself might be merely symbolic, but symbols can say a lot about whether the U
To understand how air-force navigator Tyler Stark ended up in a thornbush in the Libyan desert in March 2011, one must understand what it’s like to be president of the United States—and this president in particular. Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and on the basketball court, Michael Lewis learns the reality of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who
Why else would Obama spend hours on a golf course being lectured by Clinton?Illustration by Andy Friedman Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have never been close. Some of their advisers concede that the two men don’t really like each other. They have openly disagreed on policy issues and political strategy, and the acrimony generated during the 2008 Democratic primaries, when Hillary Clinton ran again
Published: September 5, 2012 Anatomy of a Speech: Democratic National Convention Convention speeches are multipurpose: excite the base, introduce the ticket, attack the opponent, establish the platform and fit into a tightly scripted schedule. The Times is breaking down key speeches from the Democratic National Convention, checking them for accuracy and adding context.
Britain's role in supplying information to an American military "kill list" in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted strikes against suspected insurgents and drug traffickers. An Afghan man who lost five relatives in a missile strike started proceedings against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Ministry of Defence demandi
1.In March 2010, the ACLU ran an advertisement in which President Barack Obama’s face morphs into that of President George W. Bush. A few months later, in a report on the first eighteen months of Obama’s term, the civil liberties group charged that Obama was in danger of establishing a “new normal” by entrenching the “worst Bush-era policies.” According to Daniel Klaidman’s new account of Presiden
People walk past the ruins of the crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi death camp in Poland, on Jan. 27, 2011.(Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) People walk past the ruins of the crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi death camp in Poland, on Jan. 27, 2011.(Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) During Tuesday’s awards ceremony for this year’s recipients of the Presidential Meda
President Obama in the Oval Office with Thomas E. Donilon, left, the national security adviser, and John O. Brennan, his top counterterrorism adviser.Credit...Pete Souza/The White House WASHINGTON — This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layo
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