By Scott Wilson
Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up.
His debate partner and best friend was …

On his visit to Turkey last week, President Obama made important progress toward recalibrating America’s relations with the Islamic world. The president steered away from the poisonous post-9/11 clash of civilizations mythology that drove so …

Barack Hussein Obama isn’t the first U.S. president to deliver an upbeat speech in a Muslim nation. In his travels abroad, George W. Bush mouthed all the right platitudes about Islam as a religion of …

President Barack Obama, left, smiles at his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, right, during a ceremony at the Cankaya presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 6, 2009. Obama paid tribute to the memory of modern …