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Barack Obama
May 28, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Appointing an IRS Independent Counsel Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea
It's probably bad for Obama, probably bad for his enemies, and certainly bad for America
May 24, 2013
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Obama's Speech May Have Made His Drone Problem Worse
May 23, 2013
Noreen Malone
What Barack Obama Can Learn From His High School Self
Flattery, Chutzpah, and Underhandedness
May 22, 2013
Marc Tracy
What Did Republicans Know, And When Did They Know It?
The real reason conservatives should be outraged: Their party didn't politicize it sooner.
May 21, 2013
Michael Kinsley
I'm Not a Sadist, You Sadists!
Anti-austerians: Probably wrong about the debt, certainly wrong about me
May 21, 2013
Jim Newell
The Beltway's Favorite Fantasy: An Obama-McCain Alliance
May 16, 2013
Jeff Connaughton
The White House Scandal No One Noticed
Why did Wall Street get off easier than the AP and IRS?
May 8, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
Obama's Timidity on Syria: Lessons from a Fiasco
May 8, 2013
Nate Cohn
The New Census Data That Should Terrify Republicans
Obama's coalition may only grow stronger after he leaves office
May 8, 2013
Dennis Ross
Israel Acted on Its Red Line. Now Obama Must Act on His.
May 4, 2013
Marc Tracy
An Israeli Strike, An American Message
The bombing of weapons in Syria has as much to do with Iran
May 1, 2013
Nate Cohn
Obama's Victory Wasn't Thanks to Black Turnout
Even with 2004's turnout, Mitt Romney still would have lost
May 1, 2013
Jack Goldsmith
How Obama Undermined the War on Terror
The President promised not to undercut the rule of law for expedience's sake. He did. Now we face the consequences.
April 30, 2013
Lydia DePillis
Obama's New FCC Head Is a Lobbyist. And That's OK.
Why Tom Wheeler's appointment hasn't sparked outrage
April 30, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Obamacare's New Paperwork Is Simpler than Private Insurers'
A reason to hope that implementation won't go as badly as people fear
April 26, 2013
Cameron Abadi
Obama's Strange Silence on Syria
Even before chemical weapons were used, there was a refugee crisis. Why won't the president act?
April 26, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Barack Obama Revived George Bush's Popularity (But Not for the Reason You Think)
April 21, 2013
Julia Ioffe
We Told You So
How Russia responded to the Boston bombings
April 19, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Gun Control Failed, Not Liberalism
The real lesson Obama should learn from this week's setback
April 18, 2013
Tod Lindberg
Gun Control's Long Game
Obama lost on policy. He may yet win on politics.

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