When President Obama addresses the nation tonight in a State of the Union fashion, it won't just be Congress and members of the public tuning in. Special interests, too, will be paying close attention to what the president has to say about upcoming plans that could affect them. While the president w...

With a tanking economy, warming planet and multiple bloody conflicts abroad, President Obama has his work cut out for him. His biggest challenge, however, might be keeping his campaign promise to transform American politics, according to Robert Kaiser, author of the new book "So Damn Much Money: The...

It's no secret that President-elect Obama, his new Cabinet and the 111th Congress have some seemingly insurmountable tasks in front them, the most pressing of which is to fix the tanking economy (and fast!). But their agenda also includes sweeping reform of the health care system; slowing global war...