The average American probably isn't all that spun up about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but among Democrats, the 12-nation trade pact has become the subject of a bitter proxy war between supporters of President Obama and the Warren/Sanders wing of the party, with former ...read more

On a completely different, yet parallel, track from the ongoing feud over trade within the Democratic Party, a power struggle has been going on between three of the party's most recognizable and popular figures. There's President Obama, who remains immensely popular with ...read more

The Democratic proxy war between President Obama and the Warren wing continues to roil this week. Along with the lingering bitterness over ugly accusations of sexism, the White House continued to counter-attack on the substance of Warren's positions on trade. On Tuesday, ...read more

On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) threw the latest punch in her ongoing grudge match with President Obama over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and related Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation, this time in the form of a 12-page report (15 pages with endnotes) ...read more

Former Secretary of State and current future Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been threading the flaming needle that is the Senator Elizabeth Warren/President Obama feud for the soul of the Democratic Party, and on Tuesday, she got a little help from White ...read more

It has become almost a parlor game for White House reporters to try and draw the Obama White House into the 2016 presidential campaign, something they rarely indulge in, and usually on their own terms. At Friday's White House daily briefing, Fox News' Kevin Corke took the best ...read more

As the disappointing Mayweather/Pacquiao Fight of the Century demonstrated, you just never know who's going to give you a good fight. Case in point: Wednesday's White House daily briefing, which set up a promising showdown between Fox News White House Correspondent Kevin Corke ...read more

What's a liberal to do? The ongoing fight over trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has cut deep into the heart of liberal politics, a dynamic nicely (if self-satirizingly) summed up by the Blue Nation Review headline "Mommy and Daddy are Fighting Over TPP." ...read more

The battle over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal heated up some more over the weekend, with President Obama continuing his response to Democratic critics of the deal, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) continuing to lead the charge against him. Along the way, though, ...read more

For weeks now, the White House press corps has been asking why President Obama chose Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. to deliver a speech promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, when that company's history of offshoring and low labor standards is exactly ...read more

As the bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill makes its way through Congress, President Obama continues to make the case that he needs the authority and flexibility that the bill affords him in order to make the most favorable deal possible for the United States. Many ...read more

Lost amid all the hue and cry over the mustache-twirling villains who are conspiring to devastate American workers by negotiating a secret trade partnership with Pacific Rim nations are the legitimate concerns of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like Doctors Without ...read more