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The Supreme Court’s new move toward a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage could cement President Barack Obama’s claim to having presided over the most significant advances in gay rights in United States history. Obama’s term has already seen the enactment of a federal law protecting gays and lesbians against hate crimes, an end to the ban on openly gay members of the U.S military and the

Activists for Washington D.C. statehood are pushing President Barack Obama to advocate for the issue in his 2015 State of the Union address, describing the federal district’s subordinate status as a “moral cause.”

Josh Burch, founder of the grassroots group Neighbors United for DC Statehood, has launched a petition through a White House outreach website urging Mr. Obama to mention

Nations famously tend to always try to fight the last war, and what America is preparing to do today with the newly assertive China is no exception. The problem is our last war was against primitive religious fanatics in the Middle East and China is an emerging superpower with approaching-peer level conventional capabilities and an actual strategy for contesting the United States in all the

A segement of MSNBC Live over the weekend addressed the spat between the media and the White House over photographers’ access to the activities of President Obama. The complaint is that the president’s handlers are keeping news photographers from key events and instead circulating official photographs — read: cheery! — to the public.

That issue, plus others, prompted veteran reporter