Like the millions of voters who will decide US President Donald Trump’s fate, the 2020 White House race is in self-isolation. The coronavirus pandemic froze the Democratic duel between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, and eclipsed Trump’s reelection bid.

Once he galvanized vast crowds with the cry: “Let’s go change the world!”

An Al-Qaeda surge and Sunni-Shiite tumult spanning Iraq and Syria are testing eroded US influence and the logic of a foreign policy built on antipathy to Middle East entanglements.

US presidents are used to deference and barking orders, not wiping egg from their faces.
So it was unpalatable for Barack Obama to go on television Monday and admit glaring failures in the rollout of the health care law that bears his name.

To hear him tell it, no one is more tired of war than Barack Obama — yet the US president is warning that combat fatigue must not get in the way of a new US military escapade in the Middle East.

The Buck Stops here,” said the famous sign on Harry S Truman’s desk, encapsulating the lonely dilemmas power presents to US presidents, one of which now confronts Barack Obama over Syria.

America's Vietnam War generation has one, unlikely, final run at power, after President Barack Obama turned to his elders Chuck Hagel and John Kerry to run second-term national security policy.

For President Barack Obama, an Asia trip jolted by turmoil in the Middle East was a preview of the clear foreign policy legacy he seeks and the messier one he may end up with.

BARACK Obama’s campaign repudiated pundits who found his big convention speech flat, boring and stripped of inspiration, insisting the president achieved exactly what he set out to do.

SO much for the new, intellectual debate promised after the wonkish Paul Ryan joined the White House race.