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Barack Obama
Barack Obama news and analysis from The Nation
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March 12, 2020
Important differences between today’s political realities and the early Obama years are cause for hope.
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March 9, 2020
Amid a global pandemic and economic meltdown, going with the safest candidate could be dangerous.
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February 14, 2020
Clinton and Obama holdovers may control the Democratic Party’s machinery, but they no longer set the agenda.
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February 11, 2020
Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans have blocked almost everything House Democrats have passed.
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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.
