Tag: President Obama

I offer this list not with a naive optimism that Obama will actually act on them, but rather to point out how many crucial issues a sitting Democratic president has the power to control but often chooses not to.

Before he leaves office, Obama should set up a truth commission on the Iraq War.

The Obama administration will soon hand over power to a Trump administration that shares some of the very same foreign policy commitments.

“If it turns out that some of these genetically modified foods aren’t healthier, aren’t more productive and use more pesticides then we should follow the science.”

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, police deployed pepper spray and tear gas against dozens of Native American water protectors during a standoff at Cantapeta Creek.

Democrats’ political prospects will suffer if they cling to Obamacare’s less popular and less effective provisions.

The strong American popular opposition to the TPP, the Brexit vote and other recent developments in the West suggest growing rejection of the myth that national public and corporate elite interests are identical.

Rep. Pocan’s letter urges President Obama to “use executive action and take concrete steps” to address the drug cost crisis, and lists three tools that the president can use.

While all the focus has been on the North Dakota Access Pipeline another federal move on two key pipelines has flown under the radar.

While the incitement of anti-immigrant prejudice for political gain is shameful and socially explosive, it is certainly not new or uncommon in our country.