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Barack Obama

What Obama and Trump Had That Biden Doesn't

March 3, 2022

The Perils of the Springsteen-Obama Echo Chamber

Spencer Kornhaber

October 26, 2021

Barack Obama speaking into a microphone against a pink background

Can Electric Fish Talk Like Obama?

Katherine J. Wu

May 26, 2021

A Brienomyrus brachyistius electric fish

Bidenomics Really Is Something New

Ronald Brownstein

May 6, 2021

An illustration shows Joe Biden's face, colored blue, with work-related images: a woman hanging a pro-union sign and a health-care worker helping a woman with a walker

What Language Game Are the Defunders Playing?

Caitlin Flanagan

December 10, 2020

A photo of police and Barack Obama

Progressives Can’t Repeat the Mistakes of 2008

November 29, 2020

Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Why Political Leaders Are Never to Blame

November 23, 2020

An image of Margaret Thatcher pointing into a crowd set alongside one of Barack Obama sitting at a desk.

Why You Don’t Mess Around With Presidential Transitions

November 21, 2020

Workers prepare the grounds of the U.S. Capitol for the 2017 presidential inauguration.

The Tattered Idealism of Barack Obama

November 18, 2020

Obama’s Memoir Is an Exercise in Ironic Realism

November 17, 2020

Joe Biden Has a Barack Obama Problem

Timothy McLaughlin

November 17, 2020

A collage of Barack Obama and Joe Biden superimposed on a map.

The Atlantic Daily: Our Interview With Barack Obama

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

November 16, 2020

Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy

Jeffrey Goldberg

November 16, 2020

I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America

November 12, 2020

Barack Obama at his desk in the Oval Office

Here Comes Obama

Edward-Isaac Dovere

October 15, 2020

Barack Obama and some television lights

The Books Briefing: The Legacy of a Political Speech

August 21, 2020

illustration of a podium

The Atlantic Daily: Obama Makes Fear a Rallying Cry

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

August 20, 2020

Barack Obama Is Scared

August 20, 2020

Why the Democrats’ Keynote Fell Flat

August 19, 2020

Obama Couldn’t Fix the System. Biden Must.

August 5, 2020

The Atlantic Daily: The Breaking Point

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

June 10, 2020

The World Left Obama’s Soothing Rhetoric Behind

June 4, 2020

Why Obama Stepped In

Edward-Isaac Dovere

June 4, 2020

How to Understand ‘Obamagate’

David A. Graham

May 15, 2020

Birtherism of a Nation

May 13, 2020

a photo of an African American family, their faces covered by the worsd "naturalized" and "nature lies"

Here’s What Barack Obama Is Thinking Now

Edward-Isaac Dovere

March 5, 2020

Barack Obama speaking into a microphone while holding his hands up

Barack Obama and the End of Pete Buttigieg’s Campaign

March 1, 2020

A Sanders Visit to New Hampshire Set Off Alarms He’d Primary Obama

Edward-Isaac Dovere

February 25, 2020

The Hidden History of Sanders’s Plot to Primary Obama

Edward-Isaac Dovere

February 19, 2020

Barack Obama speaking at a Democratic rally in 2006 while Bernie Sanders claps beside him.

The Atlantic Politics Daily: That Time Sanders Nearly Primaried Obama

Saahil Desai and Christian Paz

February 19, 2020

Obama’s 2016 Warning: Trump Is a ‘Fascist’

Edward-Isaac Dovere

January 25, 2020

Donald Trump and Barack Obama walk and talk at the U.S. Capitol grounds. A marble pillar can be seen behind them.

The Other Swing Voter

January 7, 2020

Black Voters Matter wristbands

The 2000s Never Ended

December 27, 2019

A New Candidate for Obama’s Rightful Heir

Edward-Isaac Dovere

November 13, 2019

Deval Patrick and Barack Obama prepare to high-five.

Wherever Obama Turns, There Trump Is

Edward-Isaac Dovere

October 30, 2019

Read Barack Obama’s Eulogy for Elijah Cummings

October 25, 2019