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Only continued pressure from grassroots activists will force Washington to do the right thing.

The Obama administration's strategic rebalance is really just a retreat. 

In his recent speech, the president offered an unbridled defense of the surveillance state.

With a historic deal in Iran, the Obama administration is one step closer to fulfilling its peacekeeping promise.

The failures, though painful, might force both Republicans and the Obama administration to compromise.

The dream of an environmental president seems to be fading away.

A blueprint for the Barack Obama presidential library.

At ceremonies held around the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean armistice, the president sounded bellicose notes, while failing to mention national unification.

Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NYPD commissioner.