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‘These Tragedies Must End,’ Obama SaysEssential Reads President Obama vowed on Sunday to “use whatever power this office holds” to stop massacres like the slaughter at the school here that shocked the nation, hinting at a fresh effort to curb the spread of guns as he declared that there was no “excuse for inaction.” |
Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?Essential Reads Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, didn't even register. |
ANALYSIS: A sneak-peek at 2016Essential Reads Hardly a month has passed since the end of campaign 2012, but last night campaign 2016 seemed almost in sight. |
Obama, in an emerging Myanmar, vows supportEssential Reads
President Obama journeyed to this storied tropical outpost of pagodas and jungles on Monday to “extend the hand of friendship” as a land long tormented by repression and poverty begins to throw off military rule and emerge from decades of isolation. |
Divided U.S. gives Obama more timeEssential Reads Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give him more time. |
Mohammed Morsi’s visit to U.S. shows changing relations with EgyptEssential Reads Mohammed Morsi’s first visit Monday to the United States as the president of Egypt offers a timely example of all the ways relations between the countries have changed since Egypt held its first democratic election three months ago. |
Obama: Lessons learned will guide second termEssential Reads Learning on the job is a theme President Obama returns to with some frequency, not just because journalists press him to describe his mistakes in the last four years, but because Americans living through tough economic times want to know how Obama might apply the lessons of his first term if re-elected. |
Are businessmen better presidents?Essential Reads It's one of Mitt Romney's favorite lines: America needs a businessman in the White House. It's "a basic qualification" for the job, he said in his speech at the Republican convention last month, "one that's essential to [the] task." |
