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Barack Obama
vision 2020
Apr. 12, 2019
Echoing Trump, McConnell Calls for Making 2020 a ‘Referendum on Socialism’ When conservatives cannot tout their own agenda, launching a Red Scare is a handy perennial approach.
nipsey hussle
Apr. 11, 2019
Everything That Happened at Nipsey Hussle’s Funeral His longtime love, Lauren London, shared a poem for him. A message from Barack Obama was also read.
Can Progressives Forgive Kamala Harris Her Past Moderation? Harris saved her outspoken progressivism for the 2020 presidential campaign. Will the “long game” she pursued as a prosecutor hurt her?
Without a Plausible ‘Theory of Change,’ Progressive Ideas Are Just Fantasies Turns out the last Democratic president didn’t have a durable idea of how to overcome Republican obstruction. The next better get one.
engagements
Mar. 22, 2019
internet history
Mar. 15, 2019
Man Who Asked Obama to Bring Back Arrested Development : ‘No Regrets’ A decade ago, a viral protest sign asked the president to bring back the cult classic. Maybe he shouldn’t have.
vision 2020
Mar. 14, 2019
Beto’s Cool, But Can He Win a Presidential Nomination? If O’Rourke can pass some early tests, his fundraising chops and his ability to mobilize young and Latino voters could make him formidable.
Ilhan Omar Tests the Democratic Party. Will It Pass? Democrats like Omar aren’t nihilists. They have taken a great chance on the party and its capacity for self-reflection.
Democrats Aren’t Cultural ‘Extremists,’ They’ve Moved With the Country Ross Douthat is wrong: Republicans are the ones who have abandoned “cultural centrism.”
the democrats
Mar. 5, 2019
It’s Time for Democratic Centrists Like Me to Help, Not Fight, The Left Those who ran the Democratic Party under the Clintons and Obama need to acknowledge it’s the left’s turn to lead.
Obama’s Call for Bipartisanship Failed. Why Do 2020 Dems Think They’ll Succeed? Candidates like Bernie Sanders seem to think they’ll get Republicans to go along with their agenda, though Obama couldn’t. They’ll need a plan B.
transit woes
Feb. 21, 2019
The Battle Over High-Speed Rail Money Is Part of Trump’s War on California Trump’s focus on the California high-speed rail project curtailed by Governor Gavin Newsom is about more than his desire to recoup some federal money.
2020 presidential election
Feb. 21, 2019
The New Democratic Primary Calendar Makes Voters of Color Even More Important A changing calendar for 2020 means that soon after Iowa and New Hampshire very diverse states will dominate the calendar, and the contest.
vision 2020
Feb. 18, 2019
How Do Democrats Beat Trump in 2020? Barack Obama Has Some Ideas The former president is reportedly telling Democratic candidates to rebut Trump’s dystopian vision and court rural voters.
william weld
Feb. 15, 2019
William Weld and the Strange Allure of No-Hope Primary Challenges So many people think Trump ought to have a primary challenger that they’ll exaggerate the importance of anyone who shows up.
2020 presidential election
Feb. 13, 2019
Looks Like the 2020 Democratic Presidential Field Could Be the Largest Ever In the past, very large presidential fields have produced unusual results, and more often than not, defeat.
the national interest
Feb. 11, 2019
Republicans Keep Admitting Everything They Said About Obama Was a Lie White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confesses the GOP Congress refused to give Obama any successes.
2020 presidential election
Feb. 10, 2019
Joe Biden May Be the Last Hurrah for Moderate Democrats Barring a Biden nomination, the time seems ripe for progressives to take the wheel in the Democratic Party, and for moderates to fall in line.
2020 elections
Feb. 8, 2019
Cory Booker Has a School Choice Problem Booker’s past positions on vouchers and charter schools are out of line with Democratic orthodoxy. He can’t stay quiet about it much longer.
state of the union address
Feb. 5, 2019
Abolish the State of the Union Address Rather than delivering a delayed address that won’t change anyone’s border wall stance, Trump should have seized the chance to end a dumb tradition.
the national interest
Jan. 28, 2019
Trump Said President Obama Watched Television All Day Another wish-fulfillment accusation from the screentime president.
tales from the trail
Jan. 25, 2019
Democratic Ex-Presidents Expected to Sit Out 2020 Primaries But they are taking meetings … Also: Gillibrand talks to potential big-money donors and Beto gets signs from potential high-profile supporters.
the national interest
Jan. 16, 2019
If Only Obama Had Done the Things Obama Actually Did Some on the left have repeated their complaints about Obama’s supposed failures so many times, they’ve forgotten everything he actually accomplished.
donald trump
Jan. 8, 2019
Trump Reaches for Gravitas in His First Prime-Time Oval Office Speech Perhaps the venue, which Americans associate with big, consequential issues, can help convince a skeptical public that Trump needs his border wall.
obama’s best of 2018
Dec. 28, 2018
2018 midterms
Dec. 17, 2018
Unlike Obama, Trump’s Response to Midterm Defeat Was to Double Down Obama took responsibility for his party’s defeat and at least offered negotiations with the opposing party. Trump: not so much.
2020 elections
Dec. 17, 2018
Is Cory Booker the Candidate of the Christian Left? Booker’s political gospel could be discomforting to secular progressives and the Christian right as well.
michael cohen
Dec. 14, 2018
Michael Cohen Insists Trump Was Well Aware of His Criminal Behavior Trump’s former fixer keeps strengthening the case for the president’s guilt — which isn’t hard, considering Giuliani’s incoherent defense.
Surprise: Black Voters Still Don’t Like Donald Trump Trump’s claim he would get 95 percent of the black vote in 2020 is looking like absolutely the polar opposite of reality.
Heather Nauert Won’t Be in Trump’s Cabinet Because She Has No Clout The new U.N. ambassador won’t be in the Cabinet because she doesn’t have the résumé. The practice predates Trump.
Be Thankful You’re Not Sitting in This Pew Trump made things extremely awkward at George H.W. Bush’s funeral.
Democrats Finally Splitting With Republicans on Terrorism-Focused Foreign Policy Democrats are abandoning the war in Yemen that Obama supported. The 2020 presidential race could spur a real Democratic foreign policy debate.
2020 election
Dec. 5, 2018
When Barack Met Beto The flirtation of ObamaWorld with Beto O’Rourke’s presidential ambitions is worth its weight in gold to the Texan.
2020 elections
Nov. 26, 2018
Beto Is No Longer Ruling Out a 2020 Presidential Run The Texas political phenom removes one obstacle to an increasingly feasible challenge to Donald Trump.
the national interest
Nov. 26, 2018
Trump Threatening GM Over Its Plant Closure Is the Real ‘Gangster Government’ Trump has spent his brief political career systematically exposing the bad faith of every complaint Republicans made against Barack Obama.
love and marriage
Nov. 12, 2018
Michelle Obama Says She and Barack Went to Couples Therapy “I feel vulnerable all the time. And I had to learn how to express that to my husband.”
last night on late night
Nov. 6, 2018
2018 midterms
Nov. 2, 2018
How Trump Plans to Spin Losing the House Trump plans to take credit for “saving” the Senate, and ignore everything else.
The Obamas’ First Netflix Project Will Be Adapting This Book About Trump The Fifth Risk explores how Trump’s administration has destroyed the government from within.
Trump: Why Didn’t the Media Blame Obama for Dylann Roof Attacking Black People? The president says the media is biased because it associated him with Cesar Sayoc but “didn’t do that with President Obama, with the church.”
What to Know About the Man Arrested in Connection With the Mail Bombs The suspect, Cesar Sayoc, is reportedly a registered Republican with an extensive criminal history.
What We Know About the Bombs Sent to Clinton, Obama, CNN, Biden, and Others Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the mail bombs. Here’s everyone he’s allegedly targeted, and how.
2020 election
Oct. 25, 2018
Gillibrand Rules Out 2020 Presidential Run Just like Obama in 2006, Gillibrand pledged to serve her full term as senator.
2018 midterms
Oct. 24, 2018
Violent Political Rhetoric Can Feed Political Violence As excitement mounts in the runup to a critical election, it’s important that we recognize that politics isn’t, or shouldn’t be, actual warfare.
2020 election
Oct. 17, 2018
Kamala Harris Updates Obama’s Winning Strategy for 2020 Twelve years after Obama’s breakthrough, it’s unclear Harris can emulate it given a giant field and polarized politics.
just asking questions
Oct. 15, 2018
Eric Holder on Rod Rosenstein, Working with Uber, and Prosecuting Bankers A conversation with the former attorney general about the Russia investigation, his work with Airbnb and Uber, and his plans for 2020
2018 midterms
Oct. 12, 2018
Forcing a Runoff Election Might Be Kemp’s Backstop in Georgia Governor’s Race History suggests Republicans do better in December runoffs in Georgia, but then Democrat Stacey Abrams is all about making history.
Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results Disclosed exclusively to Intelligencer by two former aides, it involved ex-presidents and senior GOP figures.
2018 midterms
Oct. 8, 2018
Hurricane Michael Threatens to Upend Florida Elections Even if Republicans don’t want to acknowledge that climate change is real, they have to deal with the political reality of more intense autumn storms.
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