President Obama will give as many as six speeches on the economy over the next two months, ahead of deadlines for Congress to pass bills funding the government and raising the debt ceiling. He doesn't ...

President Obama and Sarah Palin both expressed deep sympathy for the victims of the Tuscon shooting Wednesday. But the similarities between their speeches stop there. It was hard, for some observers, ...

“We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness," Obama said. Both Obama’s speech on Tuesday and, for that matter, the ...

The president framed the need to take punitive action against Syria in a historical and moral context. But in a tacit acknowledgment of public and... By scheduling his Syria address on Tuesday night, ...

President Obama is expected to continue revising his annual State of the Union speech until right before he delivers it — and what he leaves out is likely to reveal as much as what he includes. Obama ...

President Obama, like Candidate Obama before him, has relied heavily on the Big Explainer of a political speech to get him out of any number of tough political spots, from Jeremiah Wright to the ...

It attempted to be not a description of the ideal, but rather one of the doable. As one senior White House official put it a few hours before the speech: “There is a path to get this done. … The ...

Two speechwriters for former President Barack Obama joined the Penn Political Union on Tuesday for a discussion about presidential communication. Cody Keenan and Tyler Lechtenberg — who both worked ...

House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, D-Ma., thought Barack Obama’s speech was so good, it left Republicans looking like they had eaten something bad. “They didn’t know how to handle it and ...