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Barack Obama
Barack Obama news and analysis from The Nation
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January 14, 2020
Under Trump, the use of drone warfare—which grew dramatically under Obama—guarantees countless more will needlessly die in America’s wars.
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January 7, 2020
Historically, such an approach does not end well, and there is ample evidence that Trump’s foreign policy is failing nearly everywhere.
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December 17, 2019
Activists often pledge to “speak truth to power.” The sad reality is that power often knows the truth.
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December 12, 2019
The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers framed in stark terms the incompetence and immorality of the officials under whom I served.
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November 27, 2019
Lebanon needs change. The people demand it and even some of the leaders know it. But US involvement threatens that possibility.
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August 1, 2019
This Cold War relic is an outrageous violation of citizens’ rights.
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July 11, 2019
Washington’s aggression is part of a decades-long quest to control the spigot in the Persian Gulf.
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June 26, 2019
As we face a renewed backlash, we’d do well to remember that each effort to drive our movement back has unleashed new waves of creativity.
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June 20, 2019
The real goal is domination of the Middle East—and that’s been a bipartisan US strategy for decades.
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June 18, 2019
Champions of foreign-policy calamities shouldn’t get a pass at the debates.
