Barack Obama has wheeled out a lean and punchy prototype for his second term, his purpose clarified by the voters who re-elected him a week ago.
President Barack Obama has begun a bus tour of the Midwest, focusing on jobs and the economy, and aiming to leave behind doubts about his leadership.
Who wants to kill the American president? And how likely are they to succeed?
The Islamic regime has been given the clearest sign yet that the Obama administration’s tentative policy of diplomatic engagement.
It’s one year since the US president’s historic election. Has he become trapped in his own lofty rhetoric?
African-Americans have been hit harder by this recession than others — and the president should be wary of lecturing them.
When the trumpeter blew his horn on Saturday afternoon welcoming President Barack Obama to Ghana, he responded rhythmically by saying: “I like this.”
Obama’s initiative came as his Democratic allies in Congress embark on the task of moving healthcare legislation.
Chris McGreal speaks to Americans about Barack Obama’s first 100 days as president .
A narrow majority of Americans back the president’s decision to release Bush administration torture memos amid high approval ratings.
Barack Obama was meant to sweep into town looking unassailable. Instead he arrives beleaguered, with an awful lot to prove.
Susan Peppercorn considers the likely impacts his presidency has on the MBA world.
Barack Obama is deploying every weapon in the presidential armoury to bolster his economic rescue strategy.
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/ 17 February 2009
Barack Obama might be more intelligent than many US presidents before him, but his stance on Gaza remains as conservative as his predecessor’s.
The Obama administration says the US’s financial system runs the risk of collapse, write Andrew Clark and Ewen MacAskill.
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/ 14 February 2009
Obama warned this month that the spillover of the Afghan war risks ”destabilising neighbouring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons”.
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/ 12 February 2009
US President Barack Obama recently said he hoped to create the conditions for face-to-face dialogue in the months ahead.
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/ 5 February 2009
The shock troops of conservative talk radio and liberal activism have yet to get Obama’s memo appealing for a ceasefire to America’s political wars.