President-elect Obama announced today that former CAP Executive Vice President Melody Barnes will lead the White House Domestic Policy Council. The Center for American Progress congratulates Melody ...

Melody Barnes offers her thoughts on civics education, faith in government, and Joe Biden. Melody Barnes, Executive Director of the Karsh Institute for Democracy and former director of the White House ...

President Obama is asking Congress to provide $50-million to support creative and successful nonprofit groups as part of a new Social Innovation Fund, Melody Barnes, director of the White House ...

Melody Barnes, the White House Director of Domestic Policy, discusses plans to pull America out of the current recession. Tonight, President Obama addresses the nation and a joint session of Congress ...

Melody Barnes, former assistant to President Obama, discusses the power of the presidential voice during her lecture at Chautauqua Institution on Thursday. P-J photo by Sara Holthouse CHAUTAUQUA — The ...

UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy hosted its first Democracy360 event during what seemed like a politically charged time. It ...

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced a second day of questioning Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Saikrishna Prakash, a University of Virginia law professor and former ...

Today, new Virginia Union University graduates need to follow that cry and do great work, Melody C. Barnes said. "This is the moment!" said Barnes, a former Richmonder who is Obama's domestic policy ...

Sundance Film Festival features CAP’s Melody Barnes, among others, to discuss the evolution of the black experience. Each year, programmers at the Sundance Film Festival discover common threads among ...

At age 8, Melody Barnes sold cupcakes to support U.S. Sen. George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign. She recalls enjoying her first taste of civic service, even if McGovern’s presidential bid ...