Seth Harris, who previously served as acting Labor secretary under former President Obama, has reportedly been tapped by the White House to serve as labor adviser under the Biden administration.



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The new president is trying to uphold American values while acknowledging cold realities. But the balance will be difficult to maintain.

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How Biden Is Setting Himself Apart From Trump—and Obama—in the Middle East

‘I’ll want to go to the funeral, but I don’t want to speak. I don’t have anything left to say’

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Barack Obama looks back at singing Amazing Grace after Charleston church mass shooting

With just a month into office, Joe Biden has continued to bring back controversial Obama-era policies. The latest example: the Biden administration's decision to bomb Iranian assets in Syria.

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The powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee isn't going to let Biden repeat Obama's mistakes.

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The road to Joe Biden's foreign policy runs through Bob Menendez

A large income gap between the poor and the wealthy has contributed to persistent political volatility and social discontent.

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What Latin America’s inequality and political instability can teach the rest of the world

Just before he left office, former president Barack Obama ordered a temporary ban on mining near the headwaters of several rivers that flow through Southwest Oregon and Northern California. Now, the House has approved a bill to make that ban permanent.Ann Vileisis is president of the Kalmiopsis Audubon Society, an environmental group in Curry County.

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The president diverges from both Donald Trump and Barack Obama with a complex vision of coalition-building.

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Where Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Taking the U.S.

Former President Barack Obama blamed "the politics of White resistance and resentment" as the reason why he didn't push financial reparations for Black Americans during his presidency.

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President Biden on Friday dramatically altered the way the U.S. government calculates the real-world cost of climate change, a move that could reshape a range of consequential decisions, from whether to allow new coal leasing on federal land to what sort of steel is used in taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects.

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