by Molly Wolfe | Aug 7, 2015 | Monitor
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” has become one of the most influential programs on television by offering honest, passionate analysis and satirical commentary of the news. Politicians, network executives, and everyday Americans tune in four times a week...
by Pete Souza | Jul 24, 2015 | Monitor
Today, President Obama visits Kenya — the 50th country he has visited during his Administration. It’s also my 50th country traveling with the President. To mark the occasion, as I did when the President visited his 50th state, I chose one photograph from each country...
by Kelsey Donohue | Jul 2, 2015 | Monitor
This is the latest post in our "Asked and Answered" series, in which we periodically feature an exchange between the President — or a Senior Administration Official — and an American who wrote him. If you'd like to write the President...
by Lindsay Holst | Jun 3, 2015 | Monitor
Today, in a ceremony at the White House, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to Army Sergeant William Shemin and Army Private Henry Johnson for conspicuous gallantry during World War I. Sergeant Shemin entered the Army on October 2, 1917. He was...
by Jim Quirk | Jun 1, 2015 | Monitor
One of Geller’s ads in San Francisco. The current debate over political advertising in the Washington, D.C.-area transit system moves the issue from “free speech” to “public safety,” and probably toward the Supreme Court. Charles M....