Obama supporters cheer while watching the returns prior to his election night rally in Chicago, November 6, 2012. (Reuters / Kevin Lamarque) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of The Nation’s special ...

“This country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot,” he told an Osawatomie audience. “These aren’t Democratic values or Republican values.” Star file photo Even Kansas’ own conservative Republican ...

DENVER — Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s dramatic call for racial equality in America, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination to become the first African-American on a major ...

This got buried by the Spitzer thing, but Obama gave a pretty good speech Monday slamming the Clintons' Dream Ticket talk about making him VP. Here's the video.

President Obama first announced " deferred action " for undocumented immigrants in 2012. When Congress failed to act, the President announced even broader executive actions in 2014 to protect ...

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During his state of the union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama advocated for Congress to consider providing relief for undocumented students who were brought here illegally by their parents, a ...

President Barack Obama stepped Wednesday into the space where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood and summoned his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century of ...