Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fight with the Supreme Court in the 1930s makes clear just how much President Obama stands to lose in any such protracted struggle.

President Obama met with his war cabinet on Friday, and the issue of reconciling with the Taliban is gaining traction, even as administration officials debate whether the time is right.

The administration’s announcement came as America’s trade deficit narrowed in January, largely because of a drop in spending on oil.

Washington acknowledges that much of America’s economic policy rides on false assumptions, but has yet to correct it.

Edward B. Montgomery is helping depressed former assembly towns tap federal money to build new futures.

It is time for Iran to find the balance between faith and pluralism that has eluded it for a century.

A talk with the chief of Intel suggests that the U.S. needs to focus more on competitiveness in the global marketplace.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had hoped to use the tour partly to address regional tensions.

Overhaul legislation can pass only with the support of reluctant Democrats, and it's going to happen only if the president uses forceful persuasion.

The new social secretary, Julianna Smoot, was finance director of President Obama’s presidential campaign and has worked for four senators.

James Fields is an African-American Democratic state legislator in a nearly all-white Alabama county that voted overwhelmingly against Barack Obama. Is he an anomaly or the future?

The White House plans to use the government’s buying power to prod private companies to improve wages.

President Obama and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill appear to have few private connections to temper their roles as public adversaries.

President Obama’s consensus-building style might not win the votes he needs to pass his health care measure.

President Obama’s legislative blueprint does address some of the concerns of House leaders who are demanding more help for the middle class.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the Obama administration would soon ask the Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

President Obama defended his stimulus package, as Republicans and Democrats waged a furious partisan battle over whether it was a waste of money.

At times, President Obama’s rhetoric has shifted, but the record indicates there is an underlying constancy in his stated goals amid profound events.

Once resistant to perceived intrusion by White House political officials, the attorney general now seeks their guidance.

President Obama sees an irony in his relations with the U.S. business community.