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  1. Barack Obama Reportedly Accepts $400,000 for a Wall Street SpeechObama is poised to make nearly twice his presidential pension for delivering remarks at a conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald.
    By Eric Levitz
  2. Trump Writing Fake Executive Orders Because He Doesn’t Know How to Be PresidentThe 100th day is coming. Look busy!
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. russia scandal
    Report: Obama Rejected Comey Op-Ed on Russia’s Election MeddlingBut when the Obama administration later wanted to confirm Russia’s efforts, Comey kept his distance.
    By Chas Danner
  4. Republicans Love the Same Attack on Syria They Hated When Obama Considered ItIn a rare set of nearly identical circumstances, GOP voters have veered from massive opposition to strikes on Syria held during Obama’s presidency.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. Trump’s Jacksonian Attack on SyriaLike Andrew Jackson, Trump believes in speedy, incredibly violent force, taken without consultation with Congress, to deter evildoers such as Assad.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. Susan Rice Becomes the Face of the Trump Counter-Narrative on RussiaTrump defenders no longer have to charge shadowy “deep state” operatives with conspiring against the 45th president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. Why Obamacare Defeated TrumpcareThe Republican Party could not come up with a better idea.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. Regretful Trump Voters Are (Mostly) a MythA new poll finds that only 3 percent of Trump voters regret their decision — and fewer than 1 percent wish they’d voted for Clinton.
    By Eric Levitz
  9. At Comey Hearing, GOP Goes Into Full Anti-Anti-Trump ModeThe argument of the day seemed to be that “deep state” leaks are a bigger threat to liberty than Russia’s election meddling.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. Trump: Being Wiretapped by Obama Is the One Thing Merkel and I Have in Common“As far as wiretapping … by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps.”
    By Eric Levitz
  11. Trump Stands By ‘Wiretap’ Claim — Even As House Intel Committee Rejects It“Wiretap covers a lot of different things.”
    By Eric Levitz
  12. Why Trump’s Personnel Crisis Is Bad and Only Getting WorseAt this rate, it could be a couple years before the administration is staffed up.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. Trump Suggests Obama Always Wanted Obamacare to Collapse in 2017“That’s the year it was meant to explode, because Obama won’t be here,” the president explained to the House GOP leadership.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. the national interest
    Obama’s Economy Didn’t Elect Trump. But It Might Reelect Him.It’s pretty clear the economy was not Clinton’s problem.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. The Working Poor Got Richer in 2016Low unemployment and minimum-wage increases sparked strong wage growth at the bottom of America’s income ladder in Obama’s final year.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. Felony Accusation Puts New Strain on Obama-Trump RelationshipEverything’s different now that Obama isn’t required to be civil to Trump.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. Trump Team Dares James Comey to Say Obama Didn’t Wiretap TrumpOn Monday, the White House suggested that Trump trusts his own misreadings of Breitbart articles over the word of the FBI director.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. Trump’s Wiretap Charge Seems to Be a Fabulist Take on Murky Legal ProceedingCovert surveillance of Russian banks blown up into a highly public conspiracy claim by one president that another tapped his phones.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Trump Asks Congress to Investigate His Unsubstantiated Obama Wiretap Claims“I will be proven right,” Trump has reportedly said, but the White House, unwilling or unable to provide evidence, is passing the buck to Congress.
    By Chas Danner
  20. russia scandal
    Trump Claims, Without Evidence, That Obama Wiretapped HimPresident Obama’s spokesperson has rejected the allegation.
    By Chas Danner
  21. Tom Perez Edges Keith Ellison for DNC ChairThe Establishment candidate narrowly defeated the insurgent favorite of Sanders campaign veterans, then began to immediately seek party unity.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. Democrats Try to Transcend Divisive Symbolism in DNC RaceMedia and activists alike are trying to turn a close DNC contest into a surrogate battle between factions. That makes the outcome hard to predict.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. the national interest
    Remember How Trump Was Going to Erase Obama’s Legacy Overnight? Not So Much.Even a highly competent president would have difficulty unwinding them, and Trump has shown no signs of being even a minimally competent one.
    By Jonathan Chait
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    Former Obama White House Photographer’s Instagram Is a Master Class in ShadeHis pictures speak for themselves. Plus, the captions help, too.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  25. Trump Is Right: No One Ever Talks About the Obama-Khamenei BromanceThe liberal media criticizes Trump for being friendly with Putin, but never says anything about Obama’s bromance with the grand ayatollah of Iran.
    By Eric Levitz
  26. the national interest
    Obamacare Repeal Is Failing Because It Was Based on a LieAt the current trajectory, sometime next week, a Republican congressional staffer will Google “What is health care?”
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. Is It Trump’s Economy Yet?In January, 227,000 jobs were created. It is of more than passing political importance whether the 44th or 45th president gets credit or blame.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. Trump’s Silence on White Supremacist Terror Is Political Correctness Run AmokThe president is too afraid of offending oversensitive conservatives to protect America against radical racist terrorism.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. Obama Calls Trump Protesters the ‘Guardians of Our Democracy’In his first statement since leaving the White House, Barack Obama says “American values are at stake.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  30. the national interest
    Obama’s America Rises AgainIt turns out to be Trump who does not understand this country.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. our new country
    These Are Some of the Last American Citizens Naturalized Under Obama“I came to Obama’s America, so it was so emotional to reach the milestone of being a citizen just before he’s going.”
    By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
  32. How Obama Changed Perceptions of Black Americans Around the WorldI went abroad after he was elected to show that America had a new visual power.
    By Brian Keith Jackson
  33. Barack Obama Is Not CoolHe is something different. Something bigger.
    By Rembert Browne
  34. On Last Day in Office, Obama Commutes the Sentences of 330 Drug OffendersThe president’s total number of commutations granted is now 1,715 — more than any other president in American history.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. President Obama Uses Final Press Conference to Defend Press Freedom“You’re not supposed to be sycophants — you’re supposed to be skeptics,” Obama told reporters, in an implicit rebuke of his successor.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. the national interest
    Trump is Not Obama’s Legacy. He’s the Legacy of Anti-Obamaism.A strange fixation on blaming Obama for his successor.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. the national interest
    Obama Uses Farewell Address to Call for Defense of Democracy Against TrumpHe warned Americans about a looming threat — one he never named, but whose identity was clear.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. the national interest
    Barack Obama’s Legacy Is More Secure Than You, or the GOP, ThinkIt could be as hard to dismantle as a wall is to build.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. select all
    Spotify Wants to Hire ObamaThe company is looking for a “President of Playlists” who has “a friendly and warm attitude, and a Nobel Peace Prize.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  40. Hourly Wages Up 10 Cents in December As U.S. Adds 156,000 JobsThe final jobs report of the Obama era is somewhat mixed.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  41. the national interest
    Republicans’ Plan to Repeal Obamacare Might Be Collapsing AlreadyRepublicans are publicly expressing panic about “repeal and delay.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. Trump Allies Argue That Obama’s Sanctions on Russia Are Too WeakEven as Trump suggests America should just forgive and forget.
    By Eric Levitz
  43. The Democrats Are Not a Pro-Palestinian PartyBy allowing the U.N. to condemn Israeli settlements, Obama did not abandon the longstanding, bi-partisan consensus on Israel – he reaffirmed it.
    By Eric Levitz
  44. Putin Says He Will Not Expel U.S. Diplomats in Retaliation for U.S. SanctionsThe U.S. expelled 35 Russian diplomats on Thursday, but Putin doesn’t want to sour relations with America before Trump is in the White House.
    By Caroline Bankoff and Eric Levitz
  45. The Obama Administration Sanctions Russia for Meddling in the 2016 ElectionNow, Trump can’t absolve Russia for its hacking by inaction — he’ll have to buck his party and actively lift sanctions on Putin’s regime.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. Trump Resents Obama for Acting Like He’s Still the PresidentThe president-elect sees Obama’s final executive actions as unfair attempts to undermine his agenda.
    By Eric Levitz
  47. the environment
    Obama Names New National Monuments in the WestThe president has so far put 548 million acres of land and water under federal protection.
    By Charley Lanyon
  48. Kerry Delivers Eulogy for the Two-State SolutionWith Israel on the brink of abandoning a decades-old point of agreement, the outgoing secretary of State defends it one last time.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. Here’s How Obama Could Go Nuclear on Trump and the GOP Before Leaving OfficeIn retaliation for Republican norm-breaking, he could temporarily fill over 100 judicial vacancies — including the one on the Supreme Court.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Netanyahu Attacks Obama Over U.N. ResolutionHe’s looking forward to working with Trump.
    By Caroline Bankoff
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