The former president is a master communicator. Steal some of his magic by borrowing one of his favorite rules for better writing. You’ve got a big speech or presentation to give, a critical strategy ...

IOWA CITY - President Obama this week appointed Christopher Merrill, the director of the University of Iowa International Writing Program, to sit on the National Council on the Humanities. Merrill, 55 ...

Following his descent into birtherism Donald Trump has latched onto another rightwing meme--that Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father was written by 1960s radical lefty activist Bill Ayers.