The president appeared at the Brookings Institution this morning to announce several job-creating measures as a kind of tangible follow-up to last week's summit. But between Obama's speech and a ...

In her speech last night at the Republican convention, vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin made a number of claims that we thought merit some scrutiny. So, we turned to Bill Adair, editor of ...

As President Trump prepares to address Congress, Steve Inskeep talks to Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations to get a sense of what we might hear the president say about foreign policy.

Mitt Romney’s ANTICIPATED, MOMENTOUS, HISTORY-MAKING speech on faith seems to have gone over well. His main point: America should embrace religious diversity and let his religion’s quirks be treated ...

Noam Scheiber is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he writes about economic policy. The president appeared at the Brookings Institution yesterday morning to announce several job-creating ...

"Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also on our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age." This is ...

Substantively, there wasn’t a ton of news in Obama’s Wall Street speech earlier today. Certainly the proposals were familiar to anyone who’s followed the debate these last few months. Politically, ...

Israelis came in for more criticism than anyone in this speech, but also received the strongest sign of support: "America's bonds with Israel are well known," the President said. "This bond is ...

It was Lee Hamilton, the Democrats' wise old man of national security, who let slip the real reason for Barack Obama's big foreign policy speech in Washington on Tuesday. Hamilton was introducing the ...

If you’ve been under a rock for the past year, reading the candidates’ pre-caucus speeches is a good way to catch up. Barack Obama’s “Stand for Change” address summarizes the argument on which his ...