Barack Obama Archives

Barack Obama

What Went Wrong

by David Bromwich,

Assessing Obama’s legacy

An official photograph of President Obama

by Pete Souza,

Part of the Problem

by Christopher Beha,

Jonathan Chait's flawed attack on David Bromwich's critique of Barack Obama's presidency

Introducing the June Issue

by Ellen Rosenbush,

David Bromwich reflects on Barack Obama’s presidency, Antonia Juhasz follows the trail of BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico, Ian Buruma asks why Thailand keeps turning to military rule, and more

Unread at Any Speed

by Ralph Nader,

By Ralph Nader, from Return to Sender, a collection of 115 unanswered letters Nader sent to George W. Bush and Barack Obama between 2000 and 2015, out this month from Seven Stories Press.

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

Obama’s Obama

by Robert Kuttner,

The contradictions of Cass Sunstein

The New York Times tries to marginalize the left

by John R. MacArthur,

“Nowhere did the Times define ‘the left’ or what might excite its opposition to Clinton. Our imaginations are allowed to run wild: Is ‘the left’ a terrorist organization? A part of the outfield? Or is it just not worth mentioning?”

A purposeless, symbolic war

by John R. MacArthur,

“Since World War II, very little that could be called genuinely humanitarian has resulted from American military intervention—not in Korea, certainly not in Vietnam, and not in Panama, Afghanistan, or the two Iraq wars and Libya.”

Ending College Sexual Assault

by Jay Caspian Kang,

Can Obama’s new campaign bring change?

Armed and Dangerous

by William Pfaff,

The inexorable rise of American militarism