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Obama’s second term: Change you can really believe in

Typically, presidential elections are about, well, hope and change. The candidates make lots of promises about all the policies they’ll change, then they hope that they can get those promises through...

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Obama’s victory speech: Behind the return of the president’s rhetoric

Judging from Twitter, President Obama’s rousing victory speech left most everyone with the same question: Where’s that guy been during the 2012 campaign? There’s an answer to that question. The Obama...

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The Romney campaign’s biggest mistake in the election

Look at this photograph of the crowd at Mitt Romney’s concession speech last night: (Stephan Savoia/Associated Press) Now look at President Obama’s victory rally: (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)...

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Where are the White House’s new voices?

About a year ago, I talked to an ex-Obama White House official about who would replace  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner when the time came. We cycled through a few names before Jack Lew’s came up....

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Transcript: President Obama 2013 inaugural address

Jonathan Newton / THE WASHINGTON POST As Prepared for Delivery – Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Each time we...

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In the next four years, we’ll see if Wall Street can be reformed

Four years ago, President Obama was sworn in as a financial crisis was still engulfing the markets and the economy. Now he can point to a Wall Street overhaul that he helped push through Congress,...

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Could bombing Syria kill more civilians than it saves?

Could bombing Syria kill more civilians than it saves? (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The answer is clearly yes, and for two reasons. The first is that our bombs will kill people. The United...

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The government is the only reason U.S. inequality is so high

While the rhetoric in President Obama's big inequality speech Wednesday was characteristically soaring, the policy proposals were largely rehashes of past administration initiatives. What's more, a...

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Why hasn’t anyone been fired over HealthCare.gov?

When the Obama administration realized that HealthCare.gov was fundamentally broken rather than merely glitchy, aides called former management consultant Jeff Zients to fix it. When the White House...

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