Politics

On Saturday a 19-year-old New Jersey man was arrested after he tried to drive past a barricaded entrance to the White House and refused to stop. And in an unprecedented security breach Friday evening, a 42-year-old Texas man jumped a fence and ran to the North Portico and entered the White House through an unlocked…

With violence against women at the forefront of a national conversation, the Obama administration launched a new initiative that it hopes will reduce the number of sexual assault incidents that take place on college campuses, Al-Jazeera reports. The It’s on Us campaign “seeks to engage college students and all members of campus communities in preventing sexual…

President Barack Obama expressed confidence in the agency charged with keeping him and his family safe Saturday after a man with a knife climbed a fence and made it into the White House before being apprehended, the Associated Press reports. It was the second such security breach in as many days. “The president has full…

Hillary Clinton has some political observers in a frenzy of excitement about her appearance on Sunday at a Democratic fundraising event in Iowa. It was an annual shindig organized by the state’s Democratic party, but folks are speculating that the former secretary of state is laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential run, especially since Iowa’s Democrats will be the…

On Labor Day in Milwaukee, President Barack Obama gave a rousing speech to supporters in which he accused Republicans of playing political games instead of helping American families. When the crowd started to boo, the president leaned on a quip from his 2012 re-election campaign: “Don’t boo. Vote!” It’s a familiar sentiment, particularly in the…

This Thursday, 4 million people in Scotland will vote in a referendum on whether to end its 307-year political union with England. Final opinion polls show the result on a knife edge, with a remarkable 97 percent of the electorate registered to vote. Among the many communities energized by the debate are 37,000 Scottish residents…

Even though President Barack Obama has been getting tough on power plants to push them to cut back on their carbon dioxide emissions, his administration supports the extraction of natural gas, and environmental groups are warning him to fix that blemish on his climate legacy, Al-Jazeera reports. Climate experts are saying that contrary to the Obama administration’s…

Reminding people to vote costs money. And to that end, the Democratic National Committee is spending a pretty penny—seven figures’ worth—on a national media campaign to get the word out that there is indeed a midterm election coming up and that blacks, Latinos, women, Asians and young Americans—all of whom show up to vote much…

Tavis Smiley, known for his unrelenting criticism of Barack Obama, recently told the Huffington Post that his commentary is rooted in holding the president accountable as the nation’s leader. “As Cornel West and I said many years ago; I respect the president; I will protect the president against white supremacist attacks or anything else he’s…

Since President Obama has decided not to move forward with any immigration-reform work until the midterm elections are over, voter-advocacy groups are finding it hard to get disappointed Latinos to the voting booths this fall. “It’s hard,” Sonia Marquez, a director for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, told Al-Jazeera. Of Obama’s postponement of his promised deportation relief for undocumented…