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The black binder arrived at the White House residence just before 8 p.m., and President Obama took it upstairs to begin his nightly reading. The briefing book was dated Jan. 8, 2010, but it looked like the same package delivered every night, with printouts of speeches, policy recommendations and scheduling notes. Near the back was […]

Clinton’s played the heavy with Iran, Russia, and even Israel—and her sometimes hawkish views are finding favor with the president.

A group of young White House staff members live together and (more or less) have their lives taped.

Brought in by Obama’s car czar to help revive the automaker after bankruptcy, “Big Ed” fired CEO Fritz Henderson and took the wheel himself. GM’s sales are bouncing back, but Whitacre’s redesign is just beginning

A White House state dinner can serve as diplomatic overture, fund-raising tool, or cultural statement. As Obama social secretary Desirée Rogers discovered, it can also be a P.R. fiasco.

[Not single-page] Psychoanalyzing one of America’s most dysfunctional relationships.

Obama’s economic adviser and his battles over the financial-reform bill.

Of course Barack Obama was too hot not to cool down. He was the one so many were waiting for—not only the first African-American president but also the nation’s long-awaited liberator after eight years of Bush-Cheney, the golden-tongued evangelist who could at long last revive and sell the old liberal faith, the first American president […]

For The Obama Administration, The Prospect Of A Nuclearized Iran Is Dismal To Contemplate: It Would Create Major New National-Security Challenges And Crush The President’S Dream Of Ending Nuclear Proliferation.

How broken is Washington? Beyond repair? A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors.