By Toby Harnden Telegraph
Few Americans consider themselves bigger than the presidency but Obama might be one of them. The man in the Oval Office, argues Toby Harnden, may already be preparing for a role as a post-president in a post-American world.
When David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, wrote recently that [...]

On the last day of jury deliberations in the trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. paced the courthouse cafeteria in his three-piece suit. Pausing near the trash bin, he began to pontificate. “This is what I went to law school for,” he said. “This is what I [...]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million border security that will put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border.
Obama signed the bill in the Oval Office alongside Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The measure will fund the hiring of 1,000 new Border Patrol agents to be deployed at [...]

In an election year dominated by a desire for change in Washington, voters in Colorado and Connecticut on Tuesday nominated a trio of Senate candidates who positioned themselves as political outsiders. But Colorado’s results proved there are limits on how much change voters actually want, a telling sign that November’s pivotal midterm elections may [...]

WASHINGTON, DC – Christina Romer, one of President Obama’s top economic advisers, is leaving her position as chairwoman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, calling her service “the honor of a lifetime.” She is expected to return to her position as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. In a [...]

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON – Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America’s virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.
China may soon put an end to that.
U.S. naval planners are [...]

JERUSALEM — Israel on Monday announced a major change in the way it will manage the country’s controversial blockade of the Gaza Strip , a move Israeli officials hope will ease tensions with the Obama administration on the eve of a visit to Washington by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
The Israelis will no longer block [...]

WASHINGTON – It’s a simple matter of math: Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court has complicated the government’s effort to force the tobacco industry to cough up nearly $300 billion.
If confirmed by the Senate as a justice, Kagan would have to sit out high court review of the government’s decade-old racketeering lawsuit against cigarette [...]

WASHINGTON – Once, California Democrats led the way to a year of the women. Now, nearly two decades later, Republicans hope it’s their turn.
Meg Whitman won the party’s nomination for California governor on Tuesday and Carly Fiorina will carry the GOP banner into the fall campaign for a Senate seat, a pair of wealthy businesswomen [...]

CHICAGO – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich sees his trial’s Thursday start as the end of an 18-month ordeal that began with his humiliating arrest on charges of scheming to profit from his power to fill President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat.
“My government is doing something very wrong to me and my family,” Blagojevich told [...]