Obama

In January 2013, Joe Biden warned that Obama would act on guns with or without Congress, floating executive orders ahead of a victims' meeting.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre on December 14, 2012, an editorial: the gun lobby's arguments have run out, and the law must change.

On Election Day 2012, a judge ordered a giant Obama mural covered at a Philadelphia polling place. Workers covered it only partly, leaving it visible.

After the first 2012 presidential debate in Denver, even CNN's Van Jones conceded: 'Romney was able to out-Obama Obama' — the night Mitt Romney won.

An Aurora shooting survivor publicly asked Obama and Romney to debate gun control in the 2012 campaign. The candidates grieved; neither answered.

At a London screening in 2012, Brad Pitt broke with his mother Jane Pitt's pro-Romney letter: 'I am an Obama supporter' — and gay marriage 'is inevitable.'

After Obama's Charlotte acceptance speech in September 2012, both parties had their nominees: the race was essentially tied, Gallup showing Obama 47, Romney 46.

For the first time in 2012, Mitt Romney crossed 40% with 18–29-year-olds in a JZ Analytics poll — a warning sign for Obama’s youth-vote machine.

Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his 2012 running mate — energizing the GOP base while handing Democrats the potent attack line of the Ryan Budget.

The 2012 speculation that Obama might swap Biden for Hillary Clinton as his running mate — the electoral logic, the arguments against, and why it never

April 2012 polls briefly showed Mitt Romney closing the gender gap with women voters. The movement, the spin, and what November actually delivered.

The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us

Bundler Abake Assongba raised $50,000 for Obama's re-election — then was accused of defrauding a businessman of $650,000 and impersonating a bank official.

When audience members fainted at Barack Obama's rallies, his response was unglamorous and dad-like: eat and drink before you come. Why the small moments worked.

After the August 2011 debt-ceiling debacle, Obama's approval sagged — and Democrats in tough districts started keeping their distance.

Sony set Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden film for October 12, 2012 — weeks before the election — after hosting an Obama fundraiser.

Boston Globe documents revealed Barack Obama Sr. was pushed out of Harvard in 1964 — complicating the family history the president had written about.

Velma Hart told Obama at a town hall she was ‘exhausted’ defending him. Months later she lost her job. On what happened — and what didn’t get proven.

Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.

Fresh off his midterm 'shellacking,' Obama landed in Mumbai in November 2010 — selling India to American business, and American business to himself.

Does Barack Obama feel the economic pain of ordinary Americans? An editorial look at the empathy gap between his rhetoric and lived reality in 2010.