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Barack Obama
December 4, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Conservatives Are Out of Touch with the World
The Republican response to Obama and the Paris climate talks is exactly what you'd expect.
December 1, 2015
Tim McDonnell
Donald Trump Just Gave the Dumbest Rebuttal to Obama's Big Paris Speech
December 1, 2015
Brian Beutler
Ted Cruz's approach to world affairs borrows heavily from Obama's "don't do stupid sh*t" doctrine.
December 1, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Obama has words of warning for Republicans running for president.
December 1, 2015
Sasha Belenky
Obama reminds the world where he was born, because we haven't had enough of that debate, apparently.
November 30, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Obama’s New Climate Change Message: There’s Hope
The president’s Paris speech shows how much has changed since Copenhagen.
November 30, 2015
Michael Eric Dyson
Yes She Can
Why Hillary Clinton will do more for black people than Obama
November 27, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak, Adam Peck
"Obama will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we’ve had. I just don't think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos."
November 25, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Obama is proof that Dads tell good jokes, too.
November 24, 2015
Lois Beckett, ProPublica
Beyond Gun Control
Why no one in Washington—not even President Obama—will embrace a program that could actually reduce gun violence.
November 23, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
Ben Carson is accusing President Obama of stealing the ideas Carson stole from Donald Trump.
November 23, 2015
Ben Adler
The GOP’s Plan to Thwart the Paris Climate Conference
November 19, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
George W. Bush made some mistakes, but at least they were enormous.
November 19, 2015
Brian Beutler
The GOP’s Obsession With ‘Radical Islam’
Republicans say they call it as they see it—until the tables are turned on them.
November 18, 2015
Steven Cohen
Ted Cruz wishes Obama would "insult me to my face" over the Syrian refugee crisis.
November 17, 2015
Brian Beutler
Republicans Versus Reality
The presidential candidates can't stop making sweeping proposals. But congressional Republicans show it's all bluster.
November 17, 2015
Alex Shephard
President Obama does not know Tyrion Lannister's name.
November 16, 2015
Brian Beutler
Obama saved his harshest words for Republican xenophobes. He was right to do so.
November 16, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Obama: "If you have a handful of people who don’t mind dying, they can kill a lot of people."
November 6, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Four Reasons Obama Rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline
Not all of them will make environmentalists happy

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