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President Barack Obama will miss his self-imposed Jan. 22 deadline to close down the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay. (…)

Obama’s Asia Trip: The Deference Debate
Let it be known without apology: Barack Obama is not above the bow. (…)

China’s government, as President Barack Obama by now no doubt knows, loves to talk about climate change. (…)

It’s hardly surprising that President Barack Obama chose to schedule a White House visit by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the dead of night on Monday, because right now Obama has little to show for his 10-month effort to revive a Middle East peace process. (…)

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. (…)

The last thing Barack Obama needed at this moment in his presidency and our politics is a prize for a promise. (…)

The Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively — a triumph of hope over inexperience — threatens to become a central metaphor of Barack Obama’s turbocharged political career. (…)

The Obama administration on Thursday declined to name China as a country that is manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages. (…)