By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates isn’t the first political appointee to analyze the work of an administration he served, even...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The Obama White House continues a pattern of attacking symptoms instead of the underlying disease, one rehashed progressive ploy at...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by the way too many Americans lived,...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Invoking his own personal story, President Barack Obama made a plea for bipartisan work to combat poverty and declared,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Happy New Year! January first and second are the days when most think of the “new” year, yet with the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama’s recent nominations of federal judges in Georgia – including one who supported regressive voters ID laws and...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Well, it’s that time of year once again for me to pick my biggest winners and losers for 2013. Unlike...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Once again, another part of the world has been thrown into turmoil. This is happening more and more since...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The 2016 national elections are not that far away. It is timely and important that we not wait...
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — This spring, a longtime staff member for President Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco, let a friend in on a secret. Mr. Obama had assigned...
[The Huffington Post] WASHINGTON — It’s a bit too soon to judge President Barack Obama on his terrible pardon record, Attorney General Eric Holder told a group...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the tradition of the Black Church in America, the right hand of fellowship handshake is extended as...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I have had difficulty believing the uproar in right-wing circles over President Obama shaking hands with Cuba’s President Raul...
[The Huffington Post] The man who took the picture showing President Obama posing for a selfie said Wednesday that the world was getting a very skewed interpretation of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief SOWETO, South Africa (NNPA) – President Barack Obama described Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first Black elected president, as...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I had an extensive conversation last week with a prominent Republican political operative about next year’s congressional elections. This operative...
[The Washington Post] “I’m not a particularly ideological person,” President Obama told a group of Democratic donors at a fundraiser in Seattle on Sunday night. Republican...
[The Washington Post] The Senate vote Thursday to lower the barriers for presidential nominations should make it easier for President Obama to accomplish key second-term priorities,...
[The Washington Post] 1. The change the Senate made today is small but consequential: The filibuster no longer applies to judicial or executive-branch nominees. It still...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday stymied President Barack Obama’s latest judicial nominee, leaving one of the nation’s top appellate courts shorthanded and escalating the endless confirmation...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he’s considering changing his chamber’s rules to make it harder for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says the only way to fix President Barack Obama’s health care law is to scrap it entirely. Boehner says...
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration’s health insurance marketplace said Thursday...
Employees Began Returning Thursday By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama signed a bill into law early Thursday morning that ended...
