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Barack Obama
October 2, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The Trump tax story is a big, beautiful gift for Hillary Clinton.
September 30, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump Is a Useful Idiot for Dangerous People
Authoritarians such as Putin benefit from American instability, and Trump proved in this week's debate that he's the chaos candidate.
September 29, 2016
Jeet Heer
In a military town hall, Obama had to walk a difficult tightrope: criticizing Trump without naming him.
September 28, 2016
Anakwa Dwamena
Congress’s first override of an Obama veto is a victory for 9/11 families.
September 28, 2016
Alex Shephard
Hillary Clinton is struggling to hold the Obama coalition together.
September 27, 2016
Brian Beutler
The First Debate Proved What We Knew: Trump Is a Monster
Why the Clinton-Trump clashes won't fundamentally change the nature of the 2016 election.
September 26, 2016
Jeet Heer
What Hillary Can Learn From Obama’s Disastrous First Debate Against Mitt Romney
September 26, 2016
Brian Beutler
Playing the Expectations Game With Trump Is Irresponsible Journalism
September 21, 2016
Brooke Seipel
It’s official: Climate change is a threat to our national security.
September 21, 2016
Anakwa Dwamena
For black workers, the economic recovery basically didn’t happen.
September 21, 2016
Brandon Harris
The Life and Loves of a Young Obama
Two new films cover a pivotal decade in the president’s life, but only one is a complex portrait of his uneasy path through the Ivy League in the 1980s.
September 21, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Is left-wing orthodoxy responsible for the rise of Donald Trump?
September 21, 2016
Brian Beutler
Liberals Have Failed to Teach Millennials About the Horror of George W. Bush
September 20, 2016
Nicole Narea
The number of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the U.S. is declining, even without a big, beautiful border wall.
September 20, 2016
Anakwa Dwamena
President Obama used his address to the U.N. General Assembly to campaign against Donald Trump.
September 19, 2016
Brian Beutler
Trump’s Racist Birther Gaslighting Strategy Has Taken Over the GOP
September 16, 2016
Jeet Heer
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein won’t be part of the first debate and that helps Hillary Clinton.
September 16, 2016
Alex Shephard
Don’t let Donald Trump bury the birther issue.
September 16, 2016
Alex Shephard
Why has Donald Trump drawn out the birther question for weeks?
September 16, 2016
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump can’t lie his way out of being a birther.

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