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Evan Vucci / AP Obama Begins His Farewell Tour
Forgoing a laundry list of new proposals, the president opts to use his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night for a closing argument.
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Jason Miczek / Reuters The Appeal of Nikki Haley
The South Carolina governor may be the perfect messenger for the Republican party.
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Evan Vucci / AP Can the Government Fix Its Corps of Managers?
The Senior Executive Service isn’t operating as it was designed to do.
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Mandel Ngan / AP The Decline of the Bully Pulpit
President Obama’s eloquence was praised on the campaign trail. Why hasn't it translated into more policy achievements?
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Gun-Control Rift Exposed by Obama
Voter bases at odds on guns are likely to see their parties ramp up rhetoric on the issue in 2016.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Obama: 'I Won't Campaign' With Candidates Who Don't Support Gun Control
In a New York Times op-ed and a CNN town hall on guns in America, the president took his hardest line yet.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Obama's New Year's Resolution on Gun Violence
The president said Friday he will meet with the U.S. attorney general to consider executive action on firearms.
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Mark Lennihan / AP How to Fix America's Infrastructure
What if Republicans agreed to pay for major projects in exchange for Democrats agreeing to cut red tape?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Barack Obama Blames the Messenger
Does the president underestimate the importance of messaging, or does he exaggerate it?
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Charlie Neibergall / AP What Happened to the Common Core Debate?
Several Republican presidential candidates have backed away from the term, but not the standards. Why?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Obama's Final Press Conference of 2015
The president spoke to reporters at the White House Friday before leaving for San Bernardino and Hawaii.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters Obama: Chessmaster, not Pawn
Many of the president’s supporters fear that he hasn’t really known what he is doing. Many of his critics worry that he is all-too-skillful at attaining his ends. There’s increasing evidence that the critics may be right.
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Pool Photographer / Reuters Obama the Analyst
In his speech about ISIS, the president shows the strength and the weakness of his logic-driven approach.
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Manish Swarup / AP Obama’s Overlooked Challenge to Muslims
The president has a more realistic and tragic understanding of the dysfunctions afflicting Islam than his critics acknowledge.
