Heres a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web:by Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib Barack Obama, it turns out, is a politician, writes Hedrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker. This ...

Barack Obama's election victory has won over many hearts and minds in Iran, softening some views of America and revising the tone of voices emerging from the Islamic Republic. One such voice ...

May 26, 2010— -- The White House is seemingly making an increased show of pressuring BP, but President Obama is facing political heat from within his own party for what some say has been a ...

Re "Liberals watch Obama, and worry," News Analysis, Feb. 16 Liberals worrying about President Obama's performance during his first month in office need to remember that he campaigned as a ...

Former President Obama warned on Tuesday the current political climate isn’t “consistent” with American democracy. “It is consistent with autocracies,” Obama told a crowd in Hartford ...

He spoke about the risks of autocracy during an appearance on Tuesday night with the writer Heather Cox Richardson at a time of deep volatility for his party, the country and the world.

Twitter is using the same type of sentiment data for its new Twitter Political Index, which “evaluates and weighs the sentiment of Tweets mentioning Obama or Romney relative to the more than 400 ...

Michelle Obama says she’s done with politics, shooting down the possibility of ever giving a stump speech or hitting the campaign trail for a candidate. “I am not going to be in politics ...

For example, President Obama gave a fairly provocative, wide-ranging speech on democracy, authoritarianism, and our political moment. That speech happened barely a month ago at Hamilton College ...