Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.