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Barack Obama
Barack Obama news and analysis from The Nation
May 17, 2019
The Saudi coalition deliberately targets civilians with US weapons—and US officials have known this for years.
April 12, 2019
Just as Reagan and Thatcher rose together, perhaps so too will Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn.
April 8, 2019
The right person will understand one crucial thing that Barack Obama did not get.
March 21, 2019
Mike Pompeo’s diplomatic sanctions against war-crimes investigators are consistent with Trump’s “America first” worldview.
March 5, 2019
The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.
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January 28, 2019
After eight years of Obama’s winks and nods, the code-switching playbook has been played out.
December 18, 2018
The only immediate effect of Judge Reed O’Connor’s fundamentally flawed ruling will be to underscore Republicans’ political weakness.
November 27, 2018
If Democrats need lessons on maximizing votes across the demographic divide, 2018 provides some clear examples of what to do—and what not to.
November 9, 2018
The former Obama speechwriter and deputy national-security adviser discusses the future of foreign policy and the Democratic party.
October 17, 2018
Obama and his speechwriter and national-security adviser set out to break from the foreign-policy establishment; instead, they found themselves absorbed by it.
