Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.