Amidst all the months and months of Republican presidential candidates' bickering and squabbling, it's been easy to forget that, oh yeah, Barack Obama is going to have to jump into this fray ...

President Obama kicks off a series of speeches. Speaking to a Tennessee audience, he lays out the progress the U.S. has made since the Great Recession five years ago and explains what remains to be ...

President Obama gave an inspiring speech this morning on the jobs crisis in America – he even began the speech with a dramatic pause. No one knows why he stoood in silence for a full minute ...

Nearly a quarter-century later, another Obama speech, this one at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, transformed him into an American political phenomenon. It launched him from being an obscure ...

Former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and the current Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff all spoke during the second night of the Democratic National Convention, alongside other ...

Every Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode on the Democratic National Convention. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

In his Saturday night address to the Human Rights Campaign, the wealthy gay advocacy group, President Obama drew laughs by recalling a recent trip to California, where he held “productive, bilateral ...

Wall Street reacts skittishly to Obama's talk of new, tougher regulations. Feb. 25, 2009 — -- President Obama spoke twice in the last 24 hours about the country's economy, and a jittery Wall ...

Convention season came to a close last night with President Obama's second acceptance speech as the Democratic nominee. So how did he do? Well, the overall reaction from both conservatives and ...