By Lee A. Daniels
Has Barack Obama, who schooled the nation four years ago in how to use the social media to build a political movement just shown us again that he’s ahead of the curve in wedding his political ideals and persona with the new communications technology and thinking to connect with people at an individual level – and, even more important, have them feel they’ve connected with him?

By Lee A. Daniels
President Obama showed again in delivering his State of The Union message that, contrary to the tinny blasts emanating from the Right and despite an economy stacked against him, he’s ready to reprise the star-turn as formidable campaigner that won him the White House in 2008.

By George E. Curry
Facing the worst polling numbers of his administration, an increasingly alienated Democratic base and rigidly uncooperative Republicans, President Obama has junked his Compromiser-in-Chief approach and started calling out members of the GOP who oppose adopting programs that will help revive the economy.

By George E. Curry
President Obama discarded his carefully-crafted image of Compromiser-in-Chief Thursday night by proposing a surprisingly bold American Jobs Act that calls for nearly $500 billion in federal spending and tax cuts to jolt the sagging U.S. economy.

By Lee A. Daniels
The condition of America’s political economy – that is, the political war in Washington between the Congressional Republicans and President Obama over how to fix the economy – may well get worse.

By Lee A. Daniels When is a painting not just a painting – but a mirror? That’s the question which leaps out of the current controversy over a painting that President Obama secured to hang in a well-trafficked corridor outside the Oval Office that first appeared forty-seven years ago in one of the most widely-read [...]

By Stacey Patton
Our quiet response speaks to our long-held understanding of what struggle is – our domestic struggle as a marginalized community is ongoing. We know that the war is not over and that neutralizing Osama bin Laden was a goal but only as part of a war that is not over.

By Lee A. Daniels
If you think the Birthers have been chastened into silence, think again – and look to the past.

By George E. Curry
Judging by his critics, Obama won’t have support even when he accomplished something George W. Bush couldn’t.

By George E. Curry
Reacting to a circus-like atmosphere created by two-time presidential flirt Donald Trump and the news media acting as willing accomplices, Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday in an effort to end the manufactured controversy over whether he was born in Hawaii and therefore qualified to serve as president of the United States