As policy and politics, who knows whether tonight's speech will succeed. As a speech, it was successful in several ways.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask why we're getting so short.
'The queen, the pope, and Nelson Mandela walk into a bar....'
A weekend that reveals something about Barack Obama's approach -- and Binyamin Netanyahu's
Before his 2008 campaign, Obama gave a memorable 2004 convention speech. Before his possible 2012 campaign, Jon Huntsman gave a memorable 2008 convention speech of his own.
The journalist who helped coin one of the most memorable critical assessments of journalism
A reader suggests that a journalist is being cynical. I am shocked!
What's really on those teleprompters?
An achievement that may be more than symbolic, and that gives us a chance to re-consider the balance between American freedom and American security
A fascinating and also depressing real-world case study on the power, or irrelevance, of "facts"
A speech that was not just a waste of breath
Down for repairs, but back soon: the SOTU annotation
A powerful presentation ... which perhaps the White House should have listened to
A chalk-talk to get a big idea across
A dramatic improvement over the first Oval Office address two months ago
A historically historical moment in history
The importance of explanation as a crucial political tool
Is Obama's speech really up to Eisenhower's standards? Was Eisenhower up to the standards of Malcolm Moos?
A 21st-century president draws on a 20th-century theme.
How Robert Gates can take the next step to rhetorical perfection.