Obama

Steelworkers’ president scores GOP for racist attacks on Obama

February 12, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Gerard ran down a range of progressive initiatives Obama has proposed during his five years in the Oval Office. Then he launched his blast at the GOP.

State of the Union should move us to action

January 29, 2014 By PW Editorial

President Obama strongly argued for progressive and pro-worker initiatives in the face of a wall of obstruction by the Republican-dominated Congress.

Closing wealth gap tops Obama’s State of the Union

January 29, 2014 By John Wojcik

President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union speech here last night, defined narrowing of the unprecedented wealth gap in America as a major task facing the nation.

Obama-Castro handshake has meaning

December 20, 2013 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Attending a memorial for former South African President Nelson Mandela, President Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro. The encounter was surely revealing about the past, and maybe about the future.

A handshake that shook the world

December 11, 2013 By PW Editorial

In the spirit of Nelson Mandela, President Obama stopped and shook the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro at the memorial to Mandela in South Africa.