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Jim Young / Reuters Will Cruz's Wisconsin Win Block Trump's Path?
The Texas senator prevailed in Wisconsin, as Bernie Sanders added to his string of recent victories over Hillary Clinton.
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Gretchen Ertl / Reuters Tyrant-Proof the White House—Before It's Too Late
Bush and Obama ran roughshod over Madisonian checks and balances, but there's still time to restore them.
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Seth Perlman / AP Congress Tells Obama to Start Planning His Departure
A bill passed Monday directs the administration to help prepare its successor—and to start doing it soon.
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Carlos Osorio / AP How to Prevent the Next Flint
The paternalistic approach to government has run its course.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Gifts of the Presidents
For decades, foreign dignitaries have showered U.S. leaders with presents, ranging from the extravagant to the bizarre.
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Ben McKeown / AP What Is the Point of Joe Biden's Cancer 'Moonshot'?
The vice president has launched an effort to “end cancer,” but the White House is only asking for $1 billion.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP A Frustrated Obama Returns to the 'Politics of Hope'
The president went back to his stomping grounds in the Illinois state senate and found more partisanship than he remembered.
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Rusty Kennedy / AP This Is Reagan's Party
The rise of conservative outsiders like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump is not unprecedented. Ronald Reagan did it first in 1976—when he challenged a sitting president.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Obama's New Equal-Pay Rules
Companies with 100 employees or more will be required to disclose pay data broken down by race and gender to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Alan Graf / Corbis Are Slack Messages Subject to FOIA Requests?
If you work for a government agency, your taco emoji are federal records.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Maybe the Republican Establishment Can’t Have It All
Given their failure to take down Donald Trump, is it time for GOP elites to let go of some cherished inward-facing policy priorities?
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AP How Teddy Roosevelt Invented Spin
He used public opinion, the press, leaks to Congress, and Upton Sinclair to reform unconscionable industries, like the meatpackers.
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Evan Vucci / AP What Is This ‘Wage Insurance’ Obama’s Talking About?
During his State of the Union speech, the president mentioned a labor protection with a long history.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Importance of Obama's Ultimatum on Guns
Democratic Senate candidates are fine with the president’s demand that they support restrictions on firearms. What a difference a decade makes.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Obama Takes Stock of His Tenure
America has pared back its foreign entanglements, and its economy has regained its balance—but large chunks of the public have not.
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Randall Hill / Reuters Nikki Haley’s Message for America
The South Carolina governor’s response to the State of the Union address aimed to unify, rather than divide.
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Pool / Reuters Obama Comes Full Circle
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Pool / Reuters A Strikingly Different State of the Union Address
President Obama went before Congress one last time, to offer a plea for civic unity—and some sharp jabs at Republican presidential candidates.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Obama Sends a Message With a Guest List
The president is bringing people to the State of the Union to recap the highlights of the past year, and to underline his priorities.
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Mandel Ngan / AP Can Obama Turn the State of the Union Into a Speech Worth Hearing?
The annual address has become a tired laundry list of presidential objectives. This year, though, might be different.
