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Barack Obama
tremendous content
Nov. 27, 2023
Trump Insists He’s Not Old and Confused, We Just Don’t Get Sarcasm He claims he repeatedly mixed up Barack Obama and Joe Biden “sarcastically.”
By Margaret Hartmann
tremendous content
Oct. 11, 2023
Trump’s New Conspiracy Theory: Obama Is Still President The “Joe Biden is just a puppet” conspiracy theory gets a retro twist from the birther-in-chief.
By Margaret Hartmann
unexpected collabs
Apr. 30, 2023
By Charu Sinha
friend group vibe check
Apr. 28, 2023
Choose Your Celebrity Squad! Are you Taylor Swift’s power posse, Shawn Mendes’s barefoot brigade, or Barack Obama’s chamber of commerce?
By Zoe Guy
the inside game
Nov. 1, 2022
What Obama Is Doing Behind the Scenes to Help Democrats Win Working the phones, advising on messaging — and trying to make all that work with his own vision for being an ex-president.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
early and often
Oct. 21, 2022
Here Come the Obama Ads Democrats bring out their not-so-secret weapon as the midterms approach.
By Benjamin Hart
tremendous content
Oct. 11, 2022
Trump Accuses George H.W. Bush of Hiding Papers in a Bowling Alley His latest defense for why he had classified documents at Mar-a-Lago: All the other presidents were doing it.
By Margaret Hartmann
awards season
Sept. 4, 2022
Quick, Someone Get Adele a Tony Award Adele’s Emmy win brings her one step closer to the EGOT.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
Who’s the Change Agent Now? Joe Biden is delivering breakthroughs that long eluded Barack Obama. Who understands the presidency best?
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Obama Blames Liberal NIMBYs for the Housing Crisis Too At the American Institute of Architects’ 2022 convention, he criticized “bipartisan resistance” to affordable, mixed-income housing.
By Diana Budds
The Obamas Will No Longer Make Podcasts for Spotify Probably not a good look to stick with the exclusive home of Joe Rogan.
By Nicholas Quah
Obama Reminds Biden Who’s Boss As the ex-president teased his former veep at the White House on Tuesday, it felt like 2010 all over again.
By Nia Prater
black lives matter
Jan. 31, 2022
The Fallacy of Representation It’s taught us everything we need to know about power: that it’s a limited resource.
By Camonghne Felix
Stephen Breyer and the End of the Apolitical Supreme Court Even John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett claim to be above politics. But Breyer may be the last justice to actually believe it.
By Ed Kilgore
the intelligencer profile
Jan. 24, 2022
Was Larry Summers Right All Along? How the ultimate Establishment figure became the preeminent critic of the Biden era’s economic consensus.
By Eric Levitz
2022 midterms
Jan. 19, 2022
Biden’s Approval Rating Is Low But Still Higher Than Trump’s With better skill than he’s shown lately and a bit of luck, Biden can mitigate 2022 midterm losses and bounce back in 2024.
By Ed Kilgore
that happened
Jan. 14, 2022
The Time Clinton Took Over Obama’s White House Podium and Stayed Awhile As Bill Clinton tries to revive Joe Biden’s stalled agenda, the president should remember his predecessor can be an excellent — if overeager — asset.
By Margaret Hartmann
authoritarianism
Jan. 3, 2022
Trump Endorses Viktor Orbán, His Hungarian Role Model It’s an unusual move that may signal what Trump hopes to achieve for himself.
By Ed Kilgore
Are Democrats Just Repeating Obama’s First Year? There are some striking similarities between the party’s current problems and what they faced 12 years ago. But Obama did manage to get reelected.
By Ed Kilgore
Harry Reid and the Power of Persistence Reid’s unlikely climb to power and his record as Senate Democratic leader were a testament to his determined loyalty to his party and his state.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Biden Wants You to Think He’s Running in 2024 Whether or not he actually plans to run again, there are many good reasons for the president to keep insisting that he’s seeking a second term.
By Ed Kilgore
what the (laurel) hell?
Dec. 17, 2021
By Justin Curto
A Preview of GOP Tactics If They Win the House in 2022 If Republicans take at least one chamber, the hostage-taking tactics deployed against Obama are coming back, with additional encouragement from Trump.
By Ed Kilgore
the body politic
Dec. 2, 2021
The Betrayal of Roe Decades of neglect and cowardice have brought this country to the precipice.
By Rebecca Traister
past is prologue
Nov. 25, 2021
Cheer Up, Democrats! You’ve Had It Worse Than This. The Democratic Party has a lot of problems, but it’s faced similarly sticky situations before and survived.
By Ed Kilgore
Neoliberalism Died of COVID. Long Live Neoliberalism! How the predominant ideology of our time survived the pandemic.
By Eric Levitz
centrist democrats
Oct. 8, 2021
Most Centrist Democrats Aren’t Like Kyrsten Sinema Party unity is less of a problem for congressional Dems than their very thin margin for error.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Sept. 29, 2021
Biden May Bounce Back Like Other Presidents Have History shows that presidents usually get reelected unless they are unlucky, or, like Donald Trump, they work hard at alienating voters.
By Ed Kilgore
Partisanship Put Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court. Now She’s Against It. The justice bemoaned perceptions of the Supreme Court following an introduction by Mitch McConnell, who made the confirmation process hyperpartisan.
By Ed Kilgore
9/11: 20 years later
Sept. 6, 2021
What 9/11 Did to the Democratic Party To this day, Democrats struggle with the fear of looking weak.
By Ed Kilgore
The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Investment in the Republican Party Is Paying Off Donald Trump was the first president to keep his promises to them, and now the big moment of rolling back abortion rights may be near.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden’s Approval Rating Goes Underwater Biden’s stretch of unobtrusive popularity is over for now, but he is in very good company as a president with net-negative approval ratings.
By Ed Kilgore
The Shocking New Book That Exposes U.S. Lies About Afghanistan At least $19 billion from American taxpayers fell into Taliban hands, and that’s just one of the bombshells in Craig Whitlock’s Afghanistan Papers .
By Ben Jacobs
If Democrats Don’t Exploit This Trifecta, Another Could Be Far Away Democrats will probably lose their governing trifecta in 2022, and it won’t get easier in 2024 or 2026. Historically, they don’t come along often.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Aug. 23, 2021
Clinton and Biden Bookend the Era of the Swing Voter Differences in how the two men approached campaigning and governing, despite their similar ideologies, reflect a massive shift in the U.S. electorate.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Aug. 20, 2021
Democrats Should (Privately) Write Off 2022 and Just Govern When the deal goes down on Biden’s agenda in Congress, vulnerable Democrats should not be given bragging rights for thwarting their own party.
By Ed Kilgore
kamala harris
Aug. 3, 2021
Is Kamala Harris’s Popularity Level a Problem for Democrats? Much of the claim that Harris is deeply and increasingly unpopular doesn’t bear scrutiny, particularly coming from fans of less popular Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
July 27, 2021
Why 2022 Won’t Be Another 1994 Republican Tidal Wave Lindsey Graham’s prediction of an impending red wave ignores several key factors behind the GOP’s historic gains in Bill Clinton’s first midterm.
By Ed Kilgore
trailer mix
July 22, 2021
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Are Turning Their Libcast Into Liblit The news arrived alongside a trailer showing Obama test-driving one of Springsteen’s convertibles.
By Justin Curto
The Drone Leaker “Second Snowden” Daniel Hale exposed the machinery of America’s clandestine warfare. Why did no one seem to care?
By Kerry Howley
Democrats Can’t Win the Culture War With Silence Changing the subject to poll-tested economic policy issues has never dispelled Republican cultural smears in the past. It won’t now, either.
By Ed Kilgore
songs of the summer
July 11, 2021
By Rebecca Alter
2022 midterms
June 22, 2021
Will Young and Minority Voters Save Democrats in 2022? With or without some help from Donald Trump, Democrats need to keep the voters who surged to the polls in 2018 and 2020 engaged.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 14, 2021
McConnell All But Admits He Would Never Confirm a Biden Supreme Court Pick With McConnell pledging obstruction, Democrats need to make the Supreme Court a major campaign issue for the midterms.
By Ed Kilgore
The Obama Family’s First Dog, Bo, Has Died The Obamas’ beloved Portuguese water dog, who became a White House celebrity in his own right, was 12.
By Chas Danner
Republicans Can’t Decide Which ‘Uncle Joe’ to Attack Is the president a senile puppet? Or a ruthless leftist? While Republicans try to decide, Biden is eating their lunch.
By Ed Kilgore
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