fidzu : politics

Former President Barack Obama makes an impassioned return to the campaign trail in New Jersey and Virginia.

20 Oct 2017 1:41am GMT

President Trump gives himself high marks for his response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

19 Oct 2017 9:00pm GMT

White House chief of staff John Kelly on Thursday delivered an impassioned defense of President Trump's outreach to families of four Americans recently killed in Niger.

19 Oct 2017 8:37pm GMT

If you've never heard of Bettye LaVette, the soul singer who belted out "A Change Is Gonna Come" with Jon Bon Jovi at the Inauguration Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan 18., you may be wondering why.

23 Jan 2009 10:46pm GMT

Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis - but Geoff Nunberg was.

23 Jan 2009 2:10pm GMT

Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.

20 Jan 2009 8:24pm GMT