John Podesta

By Jim Tankersley Forget "hope" and "change" and "yes we can." The word that will matter most, when Barack Obama assumes the Oval Office, is "doable." Teary-eyed jubilation is giving way to clear-eyed realism. As his campaign rhetoric runs into......

by Mark Silva When President George W. Bush convenes a two-day summit of world leaders in Washington on Friday to confront the global economic crisis, President-elect Barack Obama will not be present. When Congress convenes for a lame-duck session next......

by Mark Silva John Podesta, the bookish co-chairman of President-elect Barack Obama's transition planning, was casting about today for a title for Rahm Emanuel, the hard-charging Chicago congressman whom Obama has designated as his chief of staff. Chief...

by Mark Silva President-elect Barack Obama's transition planning will run about $12 million and employ 450 people. "We recognize that we have only one president at a time,'' said John Podesta, Obama's co-chairman for transition planning, in a press...

by Mark Silva and updated The White House today denied that President Bush was suggesting any trade-off when he discussed with President-elect Barack Obama his interest in winning a Colombia Free Trade agreement in the context of getting some emergency......

by Christi Parsons WASHINGTON -- They were bitter rivals during the campaign, but the newly elected U.S. president from Illinois said all along he wasn't looking for a team of allies. "These are the most able men in the country,"......

by Peter Nicholas and Janet Hook President-elect Barack Obama is crafting a financial stimulus plan far more ambitious than a quick cash infusion, viewing it as a way to create jobs in a struggling economy and push the nation toward......

by Jim Puzzanghera President-elect Barack Obama today asked Congress to delay next month's planned switch to all-digital broadcast television, warning that the TVs of millions of Americans could go dark because of major problems in the government's...

by Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten Some liberals might think that R. Bruce Josten has no business visiting President-elect Barack Obama's transition office once, let alone 16 times. That's because Josten is the top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of......

by Peter Wallsten Slowly over the past few weeks, some of President Barack Obama's most fervent supporters have come to an unhappy realization: The candidate who they thought was squarely on their side in policy fights is now a president......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama is "the urban president,'' a first in modern times, schooled in New York City, trained in community organization in Chicago, resident of the South Side. And now he has a director of urban affairs.......

by Mark Silva John Podesta, the ex-White House chief of staff who helped President Barack Obama staff his White House, has a simple title for Valerie Jarrett, Obama's close friend from Chicago and senior adviser in Washington: "Consigliere.'' Jarrett,...