Nearly a quarter-century later, another Obama speech, this one at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, transformed him into an American political phenomenon. It launched him from being an obscure ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

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Two speechwriters for former President Barack Obama joined the Penn Political Union on Tuesday for a discussion about presidential communication. Cody Keenan and Tyler Lechtenberg — who both worked ...