Barack Obama News and Blog Posts

Getting Congress to accomplish anything seems like an almost impossible task. By nearly every measure, the 118th Congress from 2023 to 2024 was one of the least effective in history. The reasons for this dysfunction are many: political polarization, hyper-partisanship, razor-thin majorities – you name it. For the President of the United States, one solution is a frequently manipulated tool: executive orders.

Activists pushed for policy changes on Gaza during President Joe Biden’s speech, and Michelle and Barack Obama electrified the crowd.

Biden holds far fewer news conferences than many of his predecessors.

A new report from independent journalists Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi claims the CIA asked foreign allies to illegally spy on former President Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. Despite being covered by many sources from the Right, no sources from the Center or Left picked up the report, displaying bias by omission.

Both men offered a guiding light for what it looks like to humanize the political foes we clash with.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received one minute to address the Democratic National Convention this week. That’s only one minute more than I got.

Joe Biden frequently talks about himself as a tr...

Tracking impeachment: The first publicly televised hearings in the impeachment ...