Barack Obama Archives

Barack Obama

Promises, Promises

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?

A Top Obama Aide Says History Won’t Applaud the President’s Climate Policy

by Mark Hertsgaard,

How the president has undercut proposed EPA regulations by moving the goalposts on climate change

Nothing Left

by Adolph Reed Jr.,

The long, slow surrender of American liberals

Secretary of Nothing

by Andrew Cockburn,

John Kerry and the myth of foreign policy

Hitler and Other Syria-debate Low Points

by John R. MacArthur,

When the facts won’t convince the public to march into battle, politicians ramp up the rhetoric

Jim Webb on Why Congress Must Be Consulted on Foreign Policy

by Harper’s Magazine,

From the June 2013 issue

Obama’s Snowden Dilemma

by Scott Horton,

How will the Obama Administration handle Edward Snowden’s case in the long term?

Washington On Parade

by Michael Ames,

Watching the red carpet at the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Obama’s Real Political Program

by John R. MacArthur,

Vague talk about the middle class, and plenty for big business

The Economic Understatement of the Union

by Jeff Madrick,

If the president wants the public???s support, he should be making a forceful case for spending

Team America

by Thomas Frank,

There have been an estimated 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln; like the lives of the wealthy and the secrets of self-improvement, a fascination with the Great Emancipator is an…