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Career as U.S. president

An official photograph of President Obama

by Pete Souza,

What Went Wrong

by David Bromwich,

Assessing Obama’s legacy

Obama’s Obama

by Robert Kuttner,

The contradictions of Cass Sunstein

Stonewalled

by Gary Lee Bauer,

From a June 30, 1987, memo to President Ronald Reagan from Gary L. Bauer, Reagan’s chief domestic policy adviser. In July of 1987, Reagan appointed Frank Lilly, an openly gay…

Promises, Promises

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?

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

Career as U.S. president

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