Barack Obama: the first year Comprehensive coverage of President Barack Obama’s first year in office
The global banking industry was thrown into turmoil after President Barack Obama moved to channel public rage over the financial crisis into the most far-reaching overhaul of Wall Street since the 1930s
The Obama administration’s prospects for passing healthcare reform legislation grew significantly bleaker when Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, said she could not muster the votes needed to pass the Senate plan through the lower chamber
Most political junkies were pointing at a clear choice for Barack Obama: will he follow Franklin Roosevelt or Bill Clinton?
US foreign policy, trade and climate change measures will be hit if focus turns inward following the electoral cataclysm in Massachusetts
After defeat in Massachusetts, the question now is how Barack Obama will interpret a defeat that robs him of a controlling super-majority in the Senate 10 months ahead of the congressional mid-term elections
Timeline: Revisit the key decisions and defining moments from President Obama’s historic first year in the White House
Interactive feature: Obama’s first 100 days as they unfolded
Sadly, it now looks too late for Barack Obama to exercise the leadership that was missing this past year – in guiding the effort, in uniting his own party around a plan, and above all in assuring the public that it all made sense
On the day Goldman Sachs announced fourth-quarter earnings of $4.95bn, the president set out broad new measures on financial regulation, the most significant of which is a radical shift – and a mistake
One-party rule from the left is not what US voters want. That is the real message of Massachusetts, and though it may already be too late, Obama had better take note
The 44th president is on the mat, but anyone counting him out has not taken his measure, writes Simon Schama. Yet the president may need to respond, not by turning on more consensual charm, but by taking the gloves off
That electoral year was also a debacle for Democrats but it thrust Newt Gingrich to the forefront of national life as Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives. Just as Newt overreached, so may Republicans now, writes Jurek Martin
A year since taking office, Barack Obama is up against the limits of his power – his healthcare breakthrough overshadowed by unemployment at home and difficulties abroad
To lose the seat held by Edward Kennedy for nearly 50 years would stand as a brutal repudiation of Barack Obama’s programme
The president has accepted the advice of intelligence chiefs, military commanders and diplomats, that defeating al-Qaeda ultimately is about hearts, minds and politics as much as military force, writes Philip Stephens
This plan has more to do with populist sentiment and token deficit reduction than recouping public investment in the banking system
The Obama administration is facing an unexpected and unwelcome development in global politics. Four of the biggest and most strategically important democracies in the developing world – Brazil, India, South Africa and Turkey – are increasingly at odds with American foreign policy. The US has been slow to pick up on this development, writes Gideon Rachman
