Alumni, students and faculty gathered in McCormick Auditorium Friday for a discussion with Cody Keenan (Weinberg ‘02), former chief speechwriter for President Barack Obama, as part of ...

"Common ground" may be increasingly difficult to find when everything seems political. Instead, David Litt suggests finding ...

That's according to Obama speechwriter Cody Keenan, who writes in his new book, Grace, that the now-iconic eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney — delivered in the wake of the 2015 massacre that ...

By Cody Keenan’s recollection, President Barack Obama gave 3,577 speeches during his eight years in the White House. And Keenan, his former chief speechwriter, was there for every one of them.

The victory speech Obama first established his reputation as a powerful, influential speaker in 2008, when he broadened his “Yes we can” campaign slogan beyond supporters and invited all ...

We, the female people of the United States, would like to thank President Obama, and not just because his inaugural speech Monday was one of the shortest in history — much as we appreciate ...

Y'all don't read this blog for my personal reflections on political developments, so I tend to refrain from writing about them. I do think that Obama's speech was a marvel of contemporary ...