A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the current war efforts, according to two people familiar with a draft of the report, which is due to President Obama on Dec. 1. More than 70...

Most of the coverage of President Obama’s interview on “60 Minutes” focused on his body language (glum, weary) or his message about legislative compromise (open to some, within reason). The part that got my attention was his discussion of government and whether, under his administration, it...

Es imposible no comprender el mensaje que han transmitido las elecciones de mitad de mandato celebradas el pasado martes. Los estadounidenses se sienten profundamente frustrados por la forma de gobernar de sus dirigentes. El debate político es de un partidismo sin precedentes, y los electores, en...

Asked on Monday to assess the significance of the coming Democratic defeat, Tim Kaine, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tried to portray this election as fairly typical. “Since Teddy Roosevelt,” Kaine told Gwen Ifill of the PBS NewsHour, “the average midterm is, you lose...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs met with President Obama on Thursday in a rare connection for the nation’s most valuable high-tech company that has been purposefully shy of Beltway culture. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the meeting took place during Obama’s visit to San Francisco and the...

“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is back on the books, but just five senior military officials will be able to discharge service members for violating it, the Pentagon said Thursday. The change in policy makes it tougher to remove gay troops by prolonging the review process and adding...

Todo lo que sube está irremisiblemente condenado a caer. Y el presidente estadounidense, el demócrata Barack Obama, se vio aupado al ser elegido hace dos años a tal delirio de exaltación y esperanza que no podía sino caer de nuevo, propinándose un batacazo más que regular. El próximo 2 de...

A new government report says the stimulus was virtually free of waste, fraud, and abuse. This is supposed to be good news. I’m not so sure. The report, which Vice President Joe Biden officially delivered to the president on Friday, is the official 2010 audit of the American Recovery and Reinvestment...

If there is one dream of the Obama presidency that died a swift, merciless death with no hope of resuscitation, it was the hope that President Obama would usher in a new era of bipartisan technocracy. As the president explained over and over, he believed he was not imposing an ideological agenda...

The Obama administration wants to require U.S. banks to report all electronic money transfers into and out of the country, a dramatic expansion in efforts to counter terrorist financing and money laundering. Officials say the information would help them spot the sort of transfers that helped finance...