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  1. Obama Says That He Would Have Beaten Trump, Trump Responds As ExpectedHe also suggested that Clinton played it too safe.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  2. U.S. Does Not Veto U.N. Resolution Declaring Israeli Settlements IllegalNetanyahu and Trump could be setting the stage for abandonment of the two-state solution.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. The Democratic Game Plan for Making Trump Miserable — and Regaining PowerThey cannot exactly follow McConnell’s 2009 strategy for thwarting Barack Obama. But they will have some good opportunities if they stay unified.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Donald Trump Just Pledged to ‘Strengthen’ America’s Nuclear CapabilityTrump’s pledge came the same day that Vladimir Putin vowed to do the same for his country.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. Obama Is Dismantling a Visitor-Tracking Program That Targets MuslimsThe timing would suggest he’s not eager to let it fall into his successor’s hands.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. Trump’s Rabid Base Will Give Him a Power Obama LackedUnlike Obama eight years ago, the president-elect seems willing to deploy his minions to ride herd on Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. Obama Will Reportedly Ban Offshore Drilling in Federal WatersThe president will take advantage of a rarely used provision in a 1953 law to make parts of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans off limits.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  8. Trump Campaign Manager Condemns Left for Delegitimizing the President-electThe woman who helped elect the leader of the birther movement scolds the left for trying to “deny [Trump] what he just earned.”
    By Eric Levitz
  9. crimes and misdemeanors
    Obama Intends to Transfer 17 or 18 Guantánamo Detainees Before Leaving OfficeThe president also announced he’s pardoning another 78 people, and commuting 153 convicts’ sentences.
    By Charley Lanyon
  10. Obama Says Democrats Lost ‘Badly’ Because They Didn’t ‘Show Up’Obama reiterates his (implicit) critique of the Clinton campaign, while declaring his intention to become a “talent scout” for the Democratic Party.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. Barack Obama Says Russia Can’t Undermine Our Democracy Unless We Let ItThe threat to the republic is coming from inside the country.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. CIA and FBI Now Agree: Russians Hacked to Help TrumpEarlier reports that the FBI disagreed with CIA findings that one aim of Russian hacking was to help Trump have now been overturned.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. How Conservatives View Russia’s Alleged Meddling in the U.S. ElectionLiberals are both overstating the importance of the hacks, and cynically trying to undermine a newly elected president.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. 3 Reasons We Need a Reconstruction Memorial Right NowIn this era of renewed political and racial polarization, we need a reminder there are things worth fighting over until justice prevails.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. the national interest
    Barack Obama’s America Is Still the FutureThe youngest Americans love the outgoing president more than ever.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. Obama Warns Against Reversing Security Strategy, Trump Says That’s His PlanTheir respective national security advisers are set to meet at the White House on Wednesday.
    By Charley Lanyon
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    Why So Many People Believe Obama Encouraged ‘Illegals’ to VoteHere’s a case study in the rich ecosystem of nonsense that causes people to believe fake-news stories.
    By Jesse Singal
  18. Why Obama Is Writing a Flood of New Regulations for Trump to RepealThere are only so many hours in a legislative day.
    By Eric Levitz
  19. Obama Says Marijuana Should Be Treated Like AlcoholBut he is resigned to letting the federal government keep treating it like heroin.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. the national interest
    David Brooks and the Intellectual Collapse of the CenterThe moderate Establishment retreats to a new fantasy in the Trump years.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. Donald Trump Tweets Out New Policy Toward CubaThe president-elect announced that he will “terminate” the Obama administration’s opening with Cuba if the island refuses to cut a better “deal.”
    By Eric Levitz
  22. protests
    In the Age of Trump, Should Protest Be Angry or Optimistic?Rembert Browne and Rebecca Traister discuss.
    By Rembert Browne and Rebecca Traister
  23. Senate Democrats Up for Reelection in Trump States Not Necessarily Doomed in ’18Presidential wins aren’t great predictors of future senate elections.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. Reminder: Clinton Did Virtually Nothing to Court White Voters in the Rust BeltThere’s plenty of space between ignoring the Rust Belt completely and selling out black voters to appeal to the white working class.
    By Eric Levitz
  25. Obama Touts Trump’s Pragmatism, Implores Him Not to Hastily Repeal the ACAObama spends a news conference showing respectful deference to Trump, while encouraging the president-elect to heed his advice on health care.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Despite His Best Meme Efforts, Barack Obama Won’t Let Joe Biden Prank TrumpBiden memes are the only good internet today.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  27. How the Loyal Opposition Will Work in Trump’s AmericaWhat should Democrats in Congress — and Barack Obama, and you — do now?
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is DeadChuck Schumer has informed labor leaders that the trade agreement will not be ratified by Congress.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. Obama Welcomes His Successor to the White HouseThe first black president begins transferring power to the leader of the “birther” movement. And Trump begins his assault on press freedom.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. Why the Decimated Democrats May Turn LeftIn a party with little power and no leader, the populists have the only coherent narrative of how Democrats should adapt to the Trumpocalypse.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. How Trump Won, by the NumbersThe GOP nominee outperformed Mitt Romney among men, low-income households, union members — and, to a lesser degree, black and Hispanic voters.
    By Eric Levitz
  32. Trump Won a Lot of White Working-Class Voters Who Backed ObamaProgressives can’t afford to give up on winning them back.
    By Eric Levitz
  33. President Trump’s America Already Looks DifferentWe are fearful and divided. Some of our most cherished ideals are gone.
    By Frank Rich
  34. Final Polls Show Clinton Ahead — and a Race That Looks a Lot Like 2012The last surveys suggest Clinton will win by a margin similar to Obama’s four years ago — but a lot of states are close.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. Hillary Clinton’s Problem With Millennials Has DisappearedThe Democratic nominee is now on pace to match Obama’s share of the youth vote in 2012.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. It’s Official: The 2016 Campaign Is Going Down BallotGOP super-pacs are branding Democrats as “rubber stamps” for President Hillary, while Clinton and Obama call on voters to oust Trump’s enablers.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. One More Reason Why 2016 May Not Be a ‘Change Election’Wages for full-time American workers just hit an all-time high.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. The Foreign-Policy Elite Are Extremely Ready for More War in SyriaThere is broad, bipartisan agreement in Washington that once Obama is gone, an escalation of U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war must begin.
    By Eric Levitz
  39. Barack Obama and Bill O’Reilly Tell Donald Trump to Stop WhiningThere is broad, bipartisan consensus that Donald Trump’s sense of entitlement must be reformed.
    By Eric Levitz
  40. early and often
    Obama’s Post-Presidency Plan: Challenge the GOP’s State-Level AdvantageRepublicans did a brilliant job of entrenching themselves in Congress and the states after 2010’s redistricting. Dems are playing catch-up.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. Obama Blames GOP for Creating Trump With ‘All Kinds of Crazy’The president proves to be a pretty shrewd analyst of the forces in the Republican Party that made Donald Trump possible as a presidential nominee.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Obama on the Risks of AI: ‘You Just Gotta Have Somebody Close to the Power Cord’The president sat down with MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito for an interview about the future, in Wired.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  43. Barack Obama Makes the Malcontent’s Case for the Center LeftIn an op-ed, Obama grapples with the economic problems that fuel populist discontent, but argues that the center left offers the best hope for change.
    By Eric Levitz
  44. the national interest
    The Myth of the ‘Change Election’A fable of conventional wisdom that comforts Republicans.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. Bill Clinton Says Obamacare Is Imperfect. Republicans Rejoice.The former president called for reforming the ACA. Republicans, and some media outlets, are pretending he called for repealing the law.
    By Eric Levitz
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    Leonardo DiCaprio Wants to Hop on Elon Musk’s Rocket Ship to MarsThe actor subtly mentioned his space-travel plans on a panel with Barack Obama this week.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  47. the obama years
    36 Behind-the-Scenes Moments of the Obama PresidencyCaptivating and compelling images from the chief official White House photographer.
  48. Bernie Sanders on the Failures, and Successes, of Obama’s Wall Street LegacyThe former presidential candidate talks Dodd-Frank and what reform really means.
  49. the obama years
    Biden on Obama: ‘It’s Like Older Brother, Younger Brother.’ The VP Lets Loose.A wide-ranging interview with the vice-president.
  50. the obama years
    Barack Obama on 5 Days That Shaped His PresidencyThe president shares with Jonathan Chait a very early draft of his memoirs.
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