Trump and the triumph of illiberal democracy
How Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic establishment sealed the fate of the progressive regime they sought to renew.
ByBarack Obama
Barack Obama was president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Born in 1961, he attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He subsequently became a civil rights attorney and academic, then senator for Illinois from 2004.
Staying up all night for elections used to be fun. But not any more
Perhaps it is the weariness of age, or that it’s hard to find optimism in politics these days.
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Rashid Khalidi: “Israel is stealing land as we speak”
The Columbia University professor on 7 October, Israel’s response, Barack Obama’s betrayal, and his book, The Hundred Years’ War on…
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The Policy Ask with Molly Morgan Jones: “The UK must keep working with Horizon Europe”
The director of policy at the British Academy on research funding, the strength of UK arts and humanities, and Barack…
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The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama’s self-help slogans
In converting her life story into self-empowering bromides, the former first lady has exposed the limits of her politics.
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The midterms: a fight for America’s soul
In the key swing state of Pennsylvania, Donald Trump began his march back to the White House. Democrat John Fetterman’s…
Rishi Sunak isn’t the UK’s Barack Obama
He doesn’t represent change, hope or success against the odds.
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Why shame in politics matters
Boris Johnson is not Donald Trump, but they both abused the public’s trust and unrepentantly continued in office.
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America’s crisis-industrial complex
Are alarmist narratives about a “new civil war” obscuring the real battle in US politics: the fight for democracy?
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“You know it shouldn’t exist”: Guantánamo at 20
The 39 men still held there are out of reach of the US court system.
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How Joe Biden’s approval rating plunged to a new low
The US president is far less popular than Barack Obama was at the same stage in his presidency.
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Bored in the USA: Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama’s new podcast is hair-tearingly dull
Barack Obama, one volume into his epic memoir, is busy trying to shape his legacy. Bruce Springsteen has been spinning…
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Barack Obama: the well-adjusted president
Obama is too comfortable in his own skin to make a revelatory biographer.
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From Vice director Adam McKay, a new series captures the Obama administration’s neoliberal worldview
Capitalism, so the story goes, faltered because of moral deficits.
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The president and the pen: letters to Obama
Throughout his presidency, Obama read ten letters from US citizens every day, slipped to him in a purple folder.
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Kate Osamor quoted Obama – here’s how MPs should copy other famous speeches
The Labour MP for Edmonton quoted the former US president’s 2008 acceptance speech when she was re-elected last year.
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Were the US strikes payback against the Assad regime – or Barack Obama?
The attack on the airbase was exactly the action we expected to see from the Obama administration in August 2013.
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Donald Trump vs Barack Obama: How the inauguration speeches compared
We compared the two presidents on trade, foreign affairs and climate change – so you (really, really) don't have to.
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Goodbye Barack Obama – 14 of the moments we won’t forget
A leader of humour and grace bows out.
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Barack Obama’s message to Russia has 22 days to play out
President Barack Obama’s order to expel 35 diplomats and send them back to Russia without love seems decisive, especially compared to…
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