Workers at a Philadelphia polling place, after being ordered by a judge to cover up a mural of President Obama, slapped up a few pieces of paper that only partially covered his image -- while leaving the Obama campaign l...

During a surprise campaign stop at a field office in Chicago, President Obama congratulated Mitt Romney on a hard-fought campaign. The president's congratulatory comment was not meant to be a premature concession. He sai...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Obama is more likeable, but trust Romney more to handle the economy It's official: With President Barack Obama's( both the Republicans and Democrats have chosen their nominees for the 2012 presidential election. Let the...

Barack Obama cancelled three operations to kill Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Hillary Clinton, according to a new book. The explosive allegation is contained in an expos...

For the first time since he began running for president, Republican Mitt Romney has the support of over 40 percent of America's youth vote, a troubling sign for President Obama who built his 2008 victory with the overwhe...

Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman and House Budget Committee chairman, as his vice-presidential running mate in August 2012 was unusual in that it generated something rarely seen in politica...

Governance, Corruption, and Institutional Strength Good governance is foundational to societal progress. When governance is weak and corruption is endemic, even well-intentioned policies fail. The Corruption Challenge In...

It was just six words from a 29-minute news conference, but President Barack Obama's assertion that "the private sector is doing fine" looks primed to play a starring role in this already-fevered campaign season. Preside...

The speculation about whether Hillary Clinton might be tapped as Barack Obama's running mate for the 2012 election — replacing Joe Biden on the ticket — circulated periodically through 2011 and into 2012, driven partly b...

A shift in polling data from April 2012 caught the attention of both campaigns in the presidential race: after weeks of trailing Barack Obama significantly among women voters — a gap that had widened during debates over...

A Washington Post investigation published in May 2012 described an incident from Mitt Romney's days at Cranbrook, the elite Michigan prep school he attended in the 1960s: Romney, then a senior, allegedly led a group of b...

Barack Obama's comment that the family "didn't have the luxury" of Michelle staying home when she was earning $316,000 a year in her role at the University of Chicago Medical Center sparked a predictable storm — one that...

The indictment of a prominent fundraiser for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns on federal fraud charges created political complications for an administration that had campaigned on ethics and transparency, and renewe...

It happened at a campaign event in Virginia: a young woman in the crowd began to sway, then slumped, and was caught by those standing nearby. Barack Obama paused his speech, asked the audience to give her room, and — onc...

Newly released documents confirmed in 2012 that Barack Obama Sr., the president's father, had been effectively pushed out of Harvard's doctoral program in 1964 after immigration officials raised concerns about his conduc...

The woman who stood up at a televised town hall meeting and told Barack Obama that she was "exhausted" of defending him — that the change he had promised had not arrived for her family, that her husband had been unemploy...

Barack Obama stood in the East Room of the White House on a Tuesday afternoon and made a promise that felt different from the others. "I am not somebody who is satisfied when we have high unemployment," he told the assem...