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Barack Obama

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

The Battle for Obama’s Legacy

October 15, 2019

Imagine If Obama Had Done This

September 19, 2019

A close-up photo of Donald Trump and Barack Obama speaking to each other.

It Worked for Barack Obama

September 9, 2019

Elizabeth Warren waves to a crowd in front of an American flag.

Obama Told Me the Good News, Then Saw My Face Fall

September 5, 2019

Samantha Power makes a speech at the United Nations

How Trump Is Reversing Obama’s Nondiscrimination Legacy

August 14, 2019

The White House lit up in rainbow colors following the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage in 2015.

Obama Warned Trump—But He Didn’t Listen

David A. Graham

August 14, 2019

Democrats of All Ages Agree on Nothing

August 11, 2019

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton walk through a garden, facing away from the camera.

Obama Still Sounds Like a President

David A. Graham

August 5, 2019

The Democratic Candidates Are Deeply Ambivalent About Obama

David A. Graham

July 31, 2019

I Helped Obama Win in 2012. Now Trump Is Using the Same Playbook.

June 9, 2019

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Obama Is … Biden His Time

Madeleine Carlisle, Elaine Godfrey, and Olivia Paschal

May 23, 2019

Waiting for Obama

Edward-Isaac Dovere

May 23, 2019

Why Pope Francis Sounds Like a Democrat

September 24, 2015

the back of Barack Obama standing next to Pope Francis

How the White House Welcomed Pope Francis

Priscilla Alvarez

September 23, 2015

Pope Francis smiling, looking at smiling President Barack Obama

Pope Francis Has Landed in the United States

September 22, 2015

Alitalia plane preparing to land