A former adviser of Barack Obama defended Zohran Mamdani from MAGA-supporting critics, pointing out that Donald Trump has ...

Former President Barack Obama never once mentioned Donald Trump by name, but the current president was never far from the conversation Tuesday night in Hartford. Touching on a wide range of topics, ...

Two weeks later, Democrats and Republicans in Congress came together for the State of the Union address. In the third year of Barack Obama’s first term, the president and Congress belatedly lived up ...

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a Joint Session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27, 2010.

President Obama’s first State of the Union speech in 2010 featured the president saying some version of “I” or “me” nearly 100 times. That was nearly four times more than Trump managed ...

President Obama’s Tuesday night address to Congress was less about the state of the union than the state of the presidency. And the state of this presidency is spent. The signs of intellectua… ...

Obama is also the first president to have framed his SOTU speeches, in part, as high-school debate rebuttals. He must tell his speechwriters to bullet criticisms of his record and then craft a ...

Obama announced his support for same-­sex “marriage” in 2012 and said during this year’s State of the Union that the spirit of progress over the past seven years was “how we secured the ...

President Obama’s final State of the Union (SOTU) address was his most popular one on Twitter in his eight year presidency. The address attracted 2,596,000 tweets sent from 642,000 different ...

President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday. The audience within the chamber produced nearly 15 minutes of applause, making up 25.2 percent of Obama’s final SOTU address.

President Obama promised that his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night would be something very different from the six that had preceded it. And, he made good on that promise ...