Remember the policy “nudges” of the Barack Obama years, which purported to fix all manner of social ills by pushing people to behave differently? Surprise, surprise: its intellectual edifice, behavioral science, has been exposed as a fraud.
Since leaving the White House, Barack Obama has been hard at work in Hollywood with his production company, Higher Ground, which signed a “high eight-figure deal” with Netflix.
Obama has a peculiar view of class struggle and progress.
A new look at the 2018 midterms shows that while Bernie Sanders has already wonback “Obama-Trump” voters, Elizabeth Warren was decimated in exactly the kinds ofplaces Democrats need to win in 2020.
We went looking for our favorite Obama and Clinton campaign alums. We found them in corporate America.
Democrats are suggesting that we can all tune out and go back to brunch if Joe Biden wins the election. If we do that, we’re doomed.
Why are powerful leaders all trying to be Oprah Winfrey? From Obama's Netflix series to Bill Clinton's podcast, the political elite aren't content with being merely influential — they want to be influencers. But Pod Can't Save America, and we shouldn't come along for the ride.
Liberal pundits have found a new icon in New Zealand’s center-left leader, Jacinda Ardern. Ardern may be personable and engaging, but just like Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau, her government isn’t meeting the urgent needs of working people.
In the wake of student debt forgiveness, for-profit colleges are still defrauding students with loans they can’t pay back. The Trump administration repealed an Obama-era law meant to punish them — and Joe Biden’s Education Department has yet to reinstate it.
Liberalism, they said back in the 1930s, was freedom plus groceries. In the Obama era, it was faulty websites plus hip celebrities.
The nation's first African-American president was a disaster for black wealth.
The Obama Foundation's new board of directors embodies the neoliberal approach that failed to defeat Trump.
Barack Obama spent eight years expanding the national security state. Now it belongs to Donald Trump.
We’ll have to wait to find out whether Joe Biden’s domestic agenda will actually reflect the surprisingly progressive noises he’s been making since his swearing in. But the exultant days and weeks surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration offer a cautionary tale.
Whatever Spielberg says — there's no comparing an empty-suit like Obama to a radical like Lincoln.
Obama had a “scandal-free” presidency, liberals say. It’s true — but only because in Washington, scandalous behavior is par for the course.
Trump's administration will likely capitalize on the decline of Latin America's left-wing governments during Obama's terms.
President Joe Biden now has a choice: make friends with congressional Republicans or actually make progress on the multiple overlapping crises facing the United States. He can't do both.
Obama’s presidency promised a new era in America, but the failure of his landmark legislation, the Affordable Care Act, set the stage for today’s disillusionment.
On immigration policy, Donald Trump isn’t as radically different from Barack Obama and Joe Biden as his inflammatory rhetoric suggests. Each has built upon his predecessor’s efforts to make border militarization and mass deportations the norm.