Barack Obama

2009

• Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?

  Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy

  What's up with Barack Obama? Finally someone has a good idea about how to deal with Wall Street and the White House condemns it.

• A Year of Obama

  Alexander Cockburn : Health Care Policy

  Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.

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  Slide Show: The Obama Youth

  : Youth

  The Nation presents images of a unique moment in time: when America's youth rallied and organized in record numbers for the 2008 election.

• Obama, One Year On

  Katrina vanden Heuvel : Barack Obama Administration

  Building a new political order will take more than one election.

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  The Obama Generation, Revisited

  Elizabeth Méndez Berry : Youth, Education, & Children

  The 2008 election galvanized young voters and organizers. One year later, where are they?

• Promises Kept and Broken, One Year Later

  Ari Melber : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left

  There are the things the president is doing that he said he would do. These actions can draw plenty of criticism, but not genuine shock. Then there are the things he is not doing which he said he would do.

• Why Obama's Iran Policy Will Fail

  Dilip Hiro : Iran

  Why Russia and China will sink Washington's Iran policy.

• Afghanistan: A Special Issue

  : Afghanistan War

  The essays in our forum call into question many of the myths and faulty assumptions about the best course of US policy in Afghanistan.

• Obama's Fateful Choice

  The Editors : Afghanistan War

  US Afghanistan policy should not be held hostage to the president's past rhetoric.

• Nobel Peace Sparks War

  Patricia J. Williams : Media Analysis

  It's peculiar, the vocabulary that makes a liability out of the Nobel Prize.

• Obama's Nobel

  The Editors : US Foreign Policy

  Did the president deserve to win the Nobel Peace Prize? No, of course not. But he still has a chance to earn it.

• Obama's Bad Influence

  Naomi Klein

  Just because the United States is trying to be a global team player again doesn't mean the game gets better rules.

• A Gift From the Ramparts of Capital...

  Alexander Cockburn : History

  People shouldn't take Peace Prizes too seriously except under those rare circumstances when a prize committee somewhere gets it right.

• Obama and the Decline of White America

  Gary Younge : Conservatives & The American Right

  Marginal extremist voices are amplified by the right-wing echo chamber.

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  Against Escalation

  The Editors : Afghanistan War

  Obama faces a presidency-defining choice: will he escalate in Afghanistan, or plot a new course?

• Same as It Ever Was: Talking Head in Pittsburgh

  Alexander Cockburn : Iran

  Why the sudden disclosure of a secret uranium enrichment facility in Iran?

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  An Open Letter to President Obama

  William R. Polk : Afghanistan War

  Mr. President, don't derail your presidency by bungling Afghanistan.