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Obama’s long weekend ahead fighting for Dems’ support on Trans-Pacific Partnership

President Obama faces a long weekend while he tries to persuade Democrats one more time to get on the bandwagon for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. House...

Littwin: The uncertain saga of the U.S. in Iraq

When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008 as the anti-Iraq-war candidate, it all seemed so easy. He'd wind down the war, pull out the troops and leave Iraqis to sort out their own country, with the help of American "advisers" - whatever that word means.

Wiretap: The real mystery of Obamatrade

...and more news lurking around the world.

Wiretap: It’s not just Obama’s immigration policy courts could undo

Court ruling United States courts v. Barack Obama. How the courts could do undo Obama's legacy on, for starters, Obamacare, immigration, same-sex marriage and climate...

Court ruling extends legal limbo for immigrants

When President Obama announced last November that more than four million immigrants in the country illegally would be eligible for new protection from deportation...

Wiretap: Baltimore-style riots are nothing new, but one thing has changed…

New direction Frank Rich writes that the riots in Baltimore so closely resembled the riots we have had for generation after generation after generation. The...

Tony Perkins: Obama’s ‘weapons of sexual radicalism’ hamper Christian anti-poverty efforts

“President Obama took the common goal of helping the poor and used it to drive an even deeper wedge between his administration and people...

Wiretap: Warren-style populism beats back Obama-GOP-corporate free-trade front

No deal The Warren wing of the Democratic Party deals Obama a ringing defeat on his trade agreement by refusing to consider fast-tracking. Populism wins....

Wiretap: Mother’s Day would be happier if America took care of...

Unhappy holidays Hope you had a happy Mother's Day. Now imagine, Ezra Klein writes, how happy it might have been if America really cared about...

Wiretap: Obama apologizes for two Western hostages killed in drone strikes

Droning On President Obama has relied on the clean, subtle technique of killing with drones. But independent investigations have found that his administration is underestimating the...