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  1. the national interest
    Conservatives Still Using the Fake Obama IRS Scandal to Defund the Tax PoliceAn imaginary 2013 IRS scandal returns to justify protecting wealthy tax cheats.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. potus
    Obama Is Sorry You’re Stuck at Home ‘Playing Board Games or Watching Tiger King’Watch his commencement speech for the class of 2020.
    By Devon Ivie
  3. president obama
    Obama Reminisces About Getting Kicked Out of Disneyland for SmokingKool and the Gang was involved in his story.
    By Benjamin Hart
  4. Obama Speaks Out on DACA: ‘To Target These Young People Is Wrong’It was a rare rebuke from the former president.
    By Benjamin Hart
  5. Progressives Need a New Foreign-Policy Vision. This Senator Says He Has One.Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut is trying to sell liberals on restrained realism in Syria and other global hot spots.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. Chelsea Manning and the False Logic of Harsh Prison SentencesThe idea that shorter periods of incarceration encourage crime is the myth that fuels the American prison state.
    By Eric Levitz
  7. Obamas Have Started Moving Out of White House and Into New D.C. Rental HomeMovers were seen carrying golf clubs and boxes labelled “dog supplies” and “his bathroom.”
    By Jen Kirby
  8. President Obama Awards Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of FreedomBiden broke down in tears during an emotional farewell.
    By Jen Kirby
  9. Mitch McConnell Says Voters Won’t Tolerate the Blocking of Supreme Court PicksThe Majority Leader reveals that he has developed a brain injury that has erased all memory of the events between Antonin Scalia’s death and today.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. Obama’s Job Approval Rating Double That of W.’s at Same Point in Second TermIn an era of perceived equivalence between the two parties, we sometimes forget Obama’s leaving office in much better shape than his predecessor did.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. These Are the Lessons to Take — and Not to Take — From the First Debate in 2012Trump shares at least one key advantage that Romney also enjoyed in his commanding win over Obama.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. politics
    Obama Creates World’s Largest Marine Preserve in HawaiiThe president is on something of a conservation kick.
    By Charley Lanyon
  13. Trump Mocks Media for Believing He Actually Means the Words He SaysOn Thursday, Trump vowed to keep telling the “truth” about how Obama “founded ISIS.” Now Trump mocks the media for failing to hear his “sarcasm.”
    By Eric Levitz
  14. Obama Confirms That the Fight Against ISIS Will Go On for a WhileBut notes some progress.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  15. Obama Pens Open Letter to America’s Police“We have your backs,” Obama writes.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. Donald Trump Suggests Obama May Be Losing the War on Terror on Purpose“He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands,” Trump said Monday, adding that Obama may have “something else in mind.”
    By Eric Levitz
  17. In Hiroshima, Obama Proposes ‘Moral Revolution’ During his historic visit, Obama met with survivors and called on mankind to get its moral progress in line with its technological prowess.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. transgender rights
    11 States Sue Obama Over Transgender PolicyThe suit calls Obama’s policy a “massive social experiment” and objects to his interpretation of Title IX.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  19. America Ends Longtime Arms Embargo Against VietnamObama says the move isn’t about countering Chinese influence in the region. (But it’s about countering Chinese influence in the region).
    By Eric Levitz
  20. Wage Growth Hits Postrecession High; Income Gap Shrinks by a Full SmidgenThe median U.S. worker has seen his or her paycheck grow 3.4 percent over the past 12 months, marking a new record for the recovery, the Atlanta Fed reports.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. Trump: Transgender Issues Is About States RightsSocial conservatives are calling Obama’s directive on transgender students an attack on children. Will they be content with a presidential candidate who refuses to defend their position on the merits?
    By Eric Levitz
  22. department of linguistics
    Understanding the Wilmore ‘Nigga’ ConversationIt challenged a lot of strongly held notions about respectability.
    By Rembert Browne
  23. Sanders and Clinton Betray Obama on Saudi ArabiaObama is fighting to kill a bill that would allow 9/11 families to sue the Saudis. Sanders and Clinton aren’t helping.
    By Eric Levitz
  24. early and often
    Obama Says Lack of Planning in Libya the ‘Worst Mistake’ of His PresidencyToday, he says Libya is a “mess.” 
    By Claire Landsbaum
  25. early and often
    Obama: Senate Republicans’ Decision to Oppose SCOTUS Nomination ‘Dangerous’It could “erode the integrity of the judicial branch.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  26. the national circus
    Obama Is a Lousy Media CriticBlaming the press for Trump’s rise is a fundamental misunderstanding of the political moment.
    By Frank Rich
  27. Obama to the Republican Party: You Created Trump’s Muslim Ban“How did we get here? We got here in part because the Republican base had been fed this notion that Islam is inherently violent.”
    By Eric Levitz
  28. from the archives
    John Heilemann: The Case for Merrick GarlandFrom 2010, the case for nominating the man Obama nominated six years later.
    By John Heilemann
  29. White House Vetting Jane Kelly for Supreme CourtIf Obama nominates Jane L. Kelly, Iowa senator Chuck Grassley could be in a tough spot.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. early and often
    Clinton and Sanders Clash Over ObamaThe implicit argument over Obama’s legacy became explicit at Thursday night’s debate.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. Obama Plans to Shame Corporate America Into Paying Women EquallyLarge companies will now have to report how much they pay employees by race, gender, and ethnicity.
    By Eric Levitz
  32. Obama Wins Another Battle in His War on CoalBut this thing is probably headed for the Supreme Court.
    By Eric Levitz
  33. Obama Wants Companies to List Campaign GiftsOne in a series of final “audacious executive actions.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  34. iran nuclear deal
    Sanctions on Iran Lifted Following Nuclear Deal ComplianceThe country met its commitments under last summer’s nuclear agreement, and can now rejoin the world economic community. 
    By Chas Danner
  35. Obama’s Economy Needs the Universal Basic IncomeIn his final State of the Union, the president diagnosed a problem that only the universal basic income can solve.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. Biden: Obama Offered Money Amid Beau’s IllnessThe veep will not be silent.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. encounter
    Loretta Lynch Isn’t Giving In to FearThe attorney general is much like her boss: She refuses to freak out.
    By Marin Cogan
  38. thanks obama
    Thanks, Obama!Including the disappearance of aerosol hairspray. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  39. the national circus
    White Rage and Obama’s TearsThe gun-obsessed right tried to blur the truth about the president’s emotion and his modest executive action. It didn’t work.
    By Frank Rich
  40. In Latest Gaffe, Trump Suggests Obama May Be a Human Capable of Genuine EmotionsDonald Trump may have finally gone too far.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. Obama’s Gun Proposals Trigger Record-High Share Price for Smith & WessonGun manufacturers were never among Barack Obama’s top campaign contributors, but they probably should have been. 
    By Eric Levitz
  42. Obama Gets Emotional While Laying Out New Gun Policies“Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad.”
    By Eric Levitz
  43. The Obama Administration’s New Deportation Plan Could Be a Headache for ClintonA plan to deport hundreds of Central American families could put the Democratic front-runner between Barack and a hard place.
    By Eric Levitz
  44. gun control
    Obama Calls No-Fly List Gun-Ownership Loophole ‘Insane’Meanwhile, the New York Times has called for more gun control in its first front-page editorial in 95 years.
    By Chas Danner
  45. Obama Tells Americans to Chill Out and Enjoy Thanksgiving Intelligence suggests that the only specific and credible threat facing the homeland is overeating.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. Ted Cruz Is Pretty Hot As a CartoonNo presidential candidate’s distorted self-image has ever been this vividly drawn.
    By Eric Levitz
  47. Appeals Court Spoils Obama’s Immigration PlansThe ruling will likely tee up a high-profile Supreme Court showdown just months before the general election.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. Obama and Netanyahu Are Trying to Be Friends AgainThe president and the Israeli prime minister met face-to-face in the White House Monday.
    By Jen Kirby
  49. police brutality
    Obama Acknowledges ‘All Lives Matter,’ Then Explains Why That’s Not the Point“The African-American community is not just making this up.”
    By Jonah Shepp
  50. boots still on the ground
    Obama Withdraws Promise to Withdraw Troops From AfghanistanIt’s official: America’s longest war will extend its run.
    By Eric Levitz
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