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A doctor explains why it doesn’t pay to stay well. Decoding what works, what falls short in Obama’s plans to reform health care

The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see. On Vivek Kundra and Data.gov

In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to Barack Obama’s first address to Congress. Given the circumstances, it wasn’t an event anyone expected her to attend. She went, she said, because she wanted the country to see that there was a woman […]

Obama doesn’t want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway.

Why Afghanistan is not Obama’s Vietnam.

Obama may be impervious to the demons of 1994, but his party is still haunted by the failure of Hillarycare.

It was about trust: if Valerie Jarrett told Barack Obama that something was the right thing to do, he would very likely do it.

Some protesters I met on the streets of Tehran pointedly asked me, “Where’s Obama?” Trying to rethink things, it seems. Khamenei’s own shift was cemented in his ferocious sermon a week after the election, when he embraced Ahmadinejad and tried to blame the whole bloody fiasco on “evil” Western agents.

Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won’t sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?

In a sprawling discussion of his past and our common future, the former president compares his administration’s early years with Obama’s and talks about what he believes — in health care and next year’s midterms — is about to happen