Since the presidency is the closest thing Americans have to royalty, this event is a celebration of power and pride. But instead of being for the President only, it honours the process. 

Barack Obama was formally sworn in for a second term as America's 44th president on Monday in front of hundreds of thousands of people in Washington D...

Thousands of people have packed out Washington D.C's National Mall to witness the second inauguration of president Barack Obama. He was officially ...

Those who didn't like Ali dismissed him as all mouth. Many who write off Obama make a similar point. All he can do is talk, they will say, great at campaigning but not at leading. They're wrong. Never have Barack Obama's gifts as a communicator been as needed by America as they are right now.

Greater awareness of the link between delusional fixations on public figures and subsequent attacks could aid prevention and encourage earlier intervention in people who, irrespective of whether they eventually attack, have delusional preoccupations which ruin their lives.

The existence of an African-American president beginning a second term should surely contribute to the decline in racial essentialism. And a first female president, whenever she finally arrives, will no doubt do the same for gender essentialism.

LONDON -- In March 2012, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne jetted off to the United States for a series of meetings a...