state of the union

The presidential masquerade of Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech

Allen Abel: Trump strove to spin his 12-month whirlwind of lies, libel, and lunacy into a schoolboy’s field trip

The ugly truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘new American moment’

Scott Gilmore: What is the real ‘state of the union’? The U.S. is aligned against old allies, its citizens are sicker and poorer, and its president is unhinged.

Is Obama’s plan to cure cancer a ‘moonshot’? Or a ‘Pluto-shot’?

Joe Biden is ‘mission control’ in a fight to cure cancer once and for all. Anne Kingston on why that is a flawed enterprise.

At his final State of the Union, Obama breaks the fourth wall

At his last annual address to Congress, Barack Obama stared down Americans and took aim at fear—in the form of Donald Trump

Barack Obama: ‘Tonight, we turn the page’

For the record: Text of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address

What to watch for in Barack Obama’s SOTU address

With three years left to go, the president’s job is to dream big and think small

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U.S. ambassdor to Canada interprets Obama’s climate change challenge

OTTAWA – President Barack Obama’s State of the Union message to act swiftly on climate change should be interpreted as a challenge to Ottawa as well, says the U.S. ambassador to Canada.

Boehner likes Obama less than Chris Brown likes Frank Ocean

… and other observations on Obama’s SOTU address

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Transcript: Marco Rubio’s response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union address

The Official Republican State of the Union Response by Marco Rubio (as prepared for delivery):

Noted on Twitter: Obama earns standing O, Marco Rubio needs H2O

Aaron Hutchins on the moment everyone is talking about

Barack Obama in a place called hope

Paul Wells explains how Obama’s America — at least as imagined — is far left of Stephen Harper’s Canada

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Decoding what Obama said about energy and climate

The president makes the case for action on climate change, though offers few concrete plans