Topic: state of the union 2015

Barack Obama, Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Photo montage by Salon)

Whose Obama is it anyway?

Andrew O'Hehir
Rand Paul (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Rand Paul's budget quackery

Simon Maloy
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Photo collage by Salon)

The new "I'm not a witch"

Elias Isquith
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool) (AP)

GOP edits out climate facts

Lindsay Abrams
Joni Ernst, Ted Cruz (CNN/YouTube/SenatorTedCruz)

State of the GOP: Broken

Joan Walsh
Photo courtesy of Nicole Hernandez Hammer

Meet Obama's SOTU guest

Lindsay Abrams
Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Photo montage by Salon)

How Obama re-set the GOP

Simon Maloy
President Barack Obama (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

State of the Union preview

Elias Isquith