Before President Obama took office, the U.S. had 25 gigawatts of wind power, and the government’s “base case” energy forecast expected 40 GW by 2030. Well, it’s not quite 2030 yet, but we’ve already got 50 GW of wind. …
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Welfare Warfare, Fought in Shallow Waters
This morning the Republican National Committee held a conference call with former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum to continue the GOP assault on Barack Obama over welfare. Republicans and the Romney campaign are driving their …
How Cyber Security Could Be a Winning Issue for Obama
A blackout in Manhattan. A major dam failure. Mayhem at a chemical plant. Those are all potential, and entirely plausible, consequences of a cyber attack, according to a range of current and former national security officials, …
The Obama Presidency in Pictures
As Barack Obama campaigns for a second term, TIME’s photo editors recap his White House tenure to date.
Political Pictures of the Week, July 27 – Aug. 3
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
The New Rules Of Campaign Finance: Small Dollars Are No Longer King
Four years ago, the presidential campaign was a celebration of the little guy. Two thirds of the money raised by Barack Obama came online, and 34% of his money came from donors who gave less than $200. This cycle, Obama is doing even better than he did in 2008 with small donors. Through June, 2.4 million Americans have given to his …
New Welfare Reform Directive Creates Unlikely Political Issue for Obama
During the 2008 presidential campaign, pastor Rick Warren asked Senator Barack Obama if he had changed his mind on any substantive issue in the past decade. Obama’s answer: welfare reform. Obama said he initially thought President Clinton’s 1996 welfare-reform bill would have disastrous results. By 2008, he was “absolutely …
U.S. Evangelicals See Political, Religious Cause in Syria Conflict
Catholic Father Paolo Dall’Oglio of Syria’s Mar Musa monastery stood before Rock Springs Congregational United Church of Christ in Arlington, Virginia, on July 23 and pleaded for U.S. intervention in his homeland’s escalating civil war. Already half of Syria’s two million Christians have fled, he said, comparing the exodus of …
Political Pictures of the Week, July 21-27
From New Orleans to London, TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Obama, Romney Stop Over in Nevada: Is It Still a True Toss-Up?
President Obama took a day trip to Nevada on Monday, a quick detour from his West Coast swing, to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno. The speech was national fare directed at vets–Iraq, Osama bin Laden, VA …
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‘Gunclingers’: Aurora, Assault Weapons and the Rise of Mass Shootings
Some surprising words about gun control from Bill Kristol on Sunday’s Fox News panel:
People have a right to handguns and hunting rifles … I don’t think they have a right to semiautomatic, quasi–machine guns that can shoot hundred of bullets at a time. And I actually think the Democrats are being foolish as they are being
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Political Pictures of the Week, July 14-20
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
The Horserace Hasn’t Changed, but Maybe the Game Has
On Twitter, Nate Silver points out the funny fact that when you type “game changer Obama Romney” into Google News, you get 2,860 results just for the last 30 days. This is funny not because we in the news bidness beat cliches …
