Politics

In Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox’s character, Marty McFly, takes a sleek DeLorean to spin back three decades to 1955. Now we’re watching a new version of the movie, and one of the stars is Rick Santorum. Instead of regressing just 30 years, the former Pennsylvania senator — whose austere ideas on government…

President Barack Obama received a standing ovation while addressing the United Auto Workers’ National Community Action Program Legislative Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel on Feb. 28 in Washington, D.C. Obama told the union members that his administration’s decision to save the auto industry was good for the economy. He also said, “As long…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press.In the afternoon, the President and Vice President will have lunch at the White House with…

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Arizona Republican presidential primary in a walk on Tuesday, handily defeating his closest challenger, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, by at least 20 points. Romney claimed the state’s 29 delegates and, combined with a razor-thin victory in the Michigan primary the same day, fully re-established himself as the…

Maybe those trees were the right height after all. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made good on his plan to be the prodigal son come home in triumph on Tuesday night, winning the Michigan primary and besting former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum with a victory that was close but convincing. “We didn’t win by a…

What is it about Massachusetts that produces such lousy presidential candidates? Has some strange brand of bipartisan political devolution been at work in the Bay State since the heyday of John F. Kennedy, bringing forth such hopeless hopefuls as Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and, last and least, Mitt Romney? Or is it, as Rick Santorum…

Office of the Press SecretaryDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will deliver remarks at the United Auto Workers conference in Washington, DC. The…

Have you met Barack X? He’s the candidate that the political right has invented in a bid to win back the White House: a fictional president with no decipherable religion and questionable loyalties. According to their dogma, Barack X is raising taxes, destroying the military, apologizing for America, waging war on religion and creating death…

Stewart Alexander bristles at the misconception that he’s running for president of the United States to make a point. “It’s a very serious campaign. It’s more than just raising awareness,” Alexander, 60, told The Root. “Working people have been very disappointed under the leadership of Barack Obama. They’ve also been disappointed under the leadership of the…