Hah, someone fell asleep while Chip Reid asked Robert Gibbs a boring question during a White House press briefing. But who? Based on the press room seating charts, it looks to be someone from the Wall Street Journal. It doesn't look like Susan Davis or Sara Murray, the Journal's most prominent women...

Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

Romer chairs the Council of Economic Advisors. WASHINGTON (CNN) — She is known for her cheery disposition and motherly demeanor, especially beside some of the dour faces that surround her, but Christina Romer, the president's chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors, is delivering the co...

Vice President Joe Biden appeared before the annual conference of the AFL-CIO executive council today – and seemed to relish every minute. “All kidding aside,” he said as he recalled the chill between the Bush administration and organized labor. “I was told by [AFL-CIO] President John Sweeney th...

Today at Obama’s Health Care Summit at the White House Senator Ted Kennedy who doesn’t appear to be ailing, declared that this time ’we will not fail’ at achieving health care reform/universal health care for all Americans. It seems Sir Ted is ready for a fight. Brain tum...

Remarks by President Barack Obama at the opening of the White House Forum on Health Reform. Thank you so much, Travis, for the wonderful introduction. Thank you for Melody Barnes, who has done more than anyone to help coordinate this forum and its extraordinary work. And so we appreciate her leaders...

Today President Obama begins to tackle an issue that will effect nearly every American, as he convenes the White House Forum on Health Reform, where the President and participants will "discuss ideas on how to bring down health care costs and increase coverage." Obama’s proposal focuses on thr...

and, yes, all of the fears of those of us who were talking about a quiet, hidden "coup," were not only justified, but were much worse than we imagined... If history gets this recent era right, future textbooks will have to show that the US narrowly averted a carefully planned but thorough and unmist...

An op-ed by David Ridenour on President Obama's choice of Carol Browner to serve as a so-called "climate czar" has appeared in newspapers nationwide, including this version from Investor's Business Daily: Climate Czar Will Reign Like Caesar Of Old By David A. Ridenour President Obama vowed to set a ...

Remarks by President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after their meeting in the Oval Office. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. Good to see you. Where are the Brits? They’re over there. PRIME MINISTER BROWN: In fact, they’re everywhere. (Laughter.) PRESIDENT OBAMA: A...