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  1. the obama years
    8 Years in Obama’s America, By Barack Obama and 60 Other Players and WitnessesAll presidencies are historic. But no president since at least LBJ, and probably FDR, has arrived at a moment of greater historic urgency than Obama.
  2. Hillary Clinton Is More ‘Dovish’ Than Obama on Nukes, Hacked Audio SuggestsIn February, Clinton expressed skepticism about a nuclear “modernization” plan that critics believe would heighten the risk of atomic warfare.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. New Poll: Obama Would Not Be Doing Much Better Than Clinton Against TrumpIn battleground states, the allegedly “weak” nominee seems to be matching the popular POTUS’s numbers.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Trump Confirms That He Changed His Stance on Birtherism for Political AdvantageAt the debate, Trump said he changed his mind about birtherism when he realized that black voters “really wanted me to come to that conclusion.”
    By Eric Levitz
  5. the national interest
    Why Debate Moderators Shouldn’t Be Fact-checkersRepublicans aren’t going to participate.
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. Obama Vetoes Bill Allowing 9/11 Families to Sue Saudi ArabiaThe decision is expected to provoke the first veto override of his presidency.
    By Eric Levitz
  7. the national interest
    Obama’s Climate Plan Will Survive Legal ChallengeThere’s only one remaining Republican who can destroy life as we know it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. Trump: I Only Said Obama Was Born Here So I Could ‘Get on With the Campaign’Asked what changed his mind about Obama’s birthplace, Trump says he just wanted “to get on with the campaign.”
    By Eric Levitz
  9. the national interest
    How the Republican War on Obamacare Explains TrumpBush speechwriter Michael Gerson thinks Barack Obama is the president who made America doubt government competence.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. Clinton’s Double Burden: Obama and Her HusbandEveryone talks about Hillary Clinton’s baggage. But she bears not only her own but that of the 42nd and 44th presidents.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Obama to Media: ‘You Don’t Grade the Presidency on a Curve’At a rally in Philadelphia, the president accuses the press of falsely equating Clinton’s foibles with Trump’s “disqualifying” scandals.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. the national interest
    Republicans Say Hillary Clinton Is Running for Obama’s Third Term. Yes, Please.The last statistical basis to say Obama has failed is now gone.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. Barack Obama (Probably) Won’t Rule Out Initiating a Nuclear WarWhile Democrats attack Trump for his openness to nuclear weapons, the Obama administration is sticking to a nearly identical stance.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. the national interest
    Mass Lesbian Farm Infiltration Is Obama’s Best Scheme YetSoon all our food will be lesbian-grown.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. Did Donald Trump Just Help the Cause of Comprehensive Immigration Reform?Trump is trying to convince his base that they care more about building a wall than deporting 11 million people. That could help make reform possible.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. Obama’s Popularity Much Like Reagan’s in 1988Instead of having to run away from the incumbent president, Hillary Clinton now has a wind at her back.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. Trump: If I Can’t Win by Calling Obama an Ally of ISIS, Then I Don’t Want to Win“All I do is tell the truth. If at the end of 90 days I fall in short … It’s okay, I go back to a very good way of life.”
    By Eric Levitz
  18. select all
    The White House Got a Facebook Messenger Bot, Because of Course It DidSup, Obama.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  19. the national interest
    Obama Still a Failed President Like Jimmy Carter, Believes Charles KrauthammerIt’s always 1980 for old conservatives.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. Trump Proves Republican Obama Hate Was Never About Obama’s IdeasRepublican proposes trillion-dollar stimulus, Republican voters somehow not angry.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. Obama Says Trump Unfit To Be PresidentObama’s entering new territory, but he’s trying to shame Republicans for continuing to back Donald Trump even as they distance themselves from him.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. Obama’s DNC Speech Was His Final Album — Until the ComebackObama’s big-speech catalog plays like a discography.
    By Rembert Browne
  23. Report: Chicago Site for Obama Library SetJackson Park, on Chicago’s South Side, is reportedly the chosen spot. 
    By Jen Kirby
  24. the national interest
    Clinton Is Running As the Candidate of DemocracyHer cause should attract all small-d democrats.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. ALMOND PLOY: Obama Lies to Nation About Nightly NutsIn a stunning confession, Obama reveals that he doesn’t actually eat exactly seven almonds every night. Will the president’s lies doom Hillary in November?
    By Eric Levitz
  26. select all
    Let Reddit Ruin This Lovely Photo of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for YouWhat an embrace.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  27. early and often
    Obama Argues That Trump Isn’t American Enough to Be PresidentObama didn’t ask to see a birth certificate, but he argued that Trump represents an authoritarian ideal too foreign for Americans to embrace.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. Obama’s Best Case for Hillary Clinton: His Own Presidential LegacyIn a close race, Obama’s own popularity may be crucial. He should remember that in making his big speech tonight.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. the national interest
    Barack Obama’s Transformational Success Is Only Beginning to Come Into ViewOne of America’s greatest presidents will soon be seen as such.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. GOP Platform to Call for Breaking Up the Big Banks, Trump Campaign SaysTrump campaign manager Paul Manafort derides Hillary Clinton as a Wall Street lackey and says the GOP platform will call for reinstating Glass-Steagall.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. the national interest
    Does President Obama Believe What He Says About Race?People on the right and left suspect it’s a façade.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. Dallas Police, NAPO Not on Same Page on DallasThe contrast between the calm behavior of stricken Dallas police and a lobbyist for police organizations in Washington, who immediately attacked the president and Black Lives Matter, is sad and instructive.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. the national interest
    It Is Not 1968Murders by and of police conceal a country more unified than it appears.
    By Jonathan Chait
  34. President Obama ‘Passes the Baton’Obama hit the campaign trail in Charlotte, making an impassioned case for his preferred successor — and against Donald Trump.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. early and often
    Dems Need Better Answers for the Working ClassTo counter the rising tide of right-wing populism, Democrats need to stop pushing higher education as the one true path to economic security.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. the national interest
    Sorry, Obama: Donald Trump Is a Populist, and You’re NotAnd that’s okay.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. early and often
    Obama Delivers 6-Minute Anti-Trump ‘Rant’/Populism LessonHe says the term for Trump’s politics is actually “nativism,” or “xenophobia.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  38. Did Organizing for Action Just Send an Email With a Fake Drake Quote?Tell me someone didn’t just Google “inspirational Drake quotes” and copy the first thing they saw.
    By Rembert Browne
  39. the national interest
    Will Barack Obama’s Democratic Party Wage Bernie Sanders’s Class War?An ideological gulf inside a party trying to unify.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. Deadlocked SCOTUS Keeps Obama Immigration Initiative Frozen There’s no telling how this saga will end.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Supports ISIS (Again)Trump retweets a supporter’s claim that the GOP nominee was “right” to question Obama’s commitment to defeating ISIS — and he has the documents to prove it.
    By Eric Levitz
  42. Obama Blasts Trump: ‘There Is No Magic to the Phrase Radical Islam.’“It is a political talking point. It is not a strategy.” 
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. The Problem With Clinton’s ‘Intelligence Surge’Could be there’s not much the U.S. can responsibly do to identify and stop “lone wolf” terrorists. 
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. politics
    Trump Again Insists He Is ‘Least Racist Person’Because boxing promoter Don King has endorsed him, except Don King has not endorsed him.
    By Chas Danner
  45. President Obama Is Officially Ready for Hillary“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” the president says in an endorsement video.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. the national interest
    Conservatives Have Never Understood What Obama Thinks About RacismA telling specimen of white racial paranoia.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. President Obama Seeks Diplomatic Resolution to Primary ConflictThe president congratulated Clinton on her win and invited Sanders to the White House to negotiate the terms of his surrender.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. President Obama Is Ready to Hit the Trail for HillaryThe president is eager to take an active role in Clinton’s campaign — and could assume that role as early as Wednesday.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. 2016 Is Turning Into a Historically Great Year for Social SecurityWith Democrats now moving toward expansion, and the GOP nominee reversing the Party’s long-held plans to cut it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. early and often
    Obama Bashes Trump’s Economic Policy in Indiana“Don’t fall for a bunch of okey-doke just because you know it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
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