Barack Obama clung to leadership of the Democratic Party after leaving the presidency, but Democrats may move on.

If Democratic lawmakers won’t listen to President Trump on cutting waste, maybe they’ll listen to President Barack Obama.In a recently resurfaced video from 2011, then-President Obama called on the ...

Obama won his first term as president in 2008 and would be re-elected in 2012 before finishing his second term in 2017.

President Obama won the District of Columbia, perhaps the nation’s most reliable Democratic stronghold, and voters amended the Washington City Charter to disqualify council members and mayors ...

Like Musk, the Speaker believed they had a mandate: “We wrote the bill…We won the election.” While Obama did listen intently to Republicans, he failed to incorporate their ideas into the ...

In the first state in the country to open its polls, President Obama won 22 of the 32 votes cast early Tuesday morning in the village of Hart’s Location. Mitt Romney received nine votes ...

It became a contest about race and identity. Former President Barack Obama won his first political seat in 1996. Hear what he had to learn, and the conflicts he faced, to get there. wbez.org ...

WSJ's Chris Cooper reflects on how Barack Obama defied the odds, using a team of grassroots organizers with no Beltway background to snatch victory from more-seasoned politically savvy rivals.