List of Barack Obama articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 To Close Guantánamo, Obama Will Have to Test the Limits of Presidential Power
The president took office promising to abandon George W. Bush’s policy of using executive orders to sidestep Congress. Now he’s doing the same.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bibi’s Excellent Washington Adventure
The Israeli prime minister has come to make amends with the United States. At least for now.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dumb Wars
A tragedy in three acts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu Escapes Liberal Event Without Any Fireworks
Those eager to see fireworks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the president of the liberal Center for American Progress left disappointed on Tuesday after the tightly scripted event ended without so much as an irritated glare.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Senate Bans Transfer of Detainees Held at Guantanamo Bay
The Senate just banned the transfer of prisoner from Guantanamo Bay.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Leaves the Fate of His Plan for Undocumented Immigrants With the Supreme Court
President Obama takes his immigration reforms to the Supreme Court.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu, Circus Ringmaster of the Israeli Right
The prime minister’s coalition partners have become a headache, and are threatening to upset what he hoped would be a conciliatory trip to Washington.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu Visit Sparks Internal Backlash at Powerhouse D.C. Think Tank
In a tense internal meeting, staffers of the Center for American Progress criticized the think tank’s decision to host the Israeli leader.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The End of Responsible Budgeting As We Know It
Washington has kicked any semblance of defense budget discipline to the curb.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Around the Globe, Opposition to Obama’s Sweeping Pacific Trade Deal Is Lining Up
The release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has critics lining up to try to bring it down.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Citing Climate Change, Obama Shoots Down Keystone at Last
Just weeks ahead of the big Paris climate summit, the Obama administration put paid to a 7-year saga by rejecting the controversial pipeline from Canada.
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HRCopener The Hillary Clinton Doctrine
For four years she was Obama’s loyal secretary of state. Her critics call her an interventionist, her admirers tough-minded. What kind of president would she be?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Putin Suspends All Russian Flights to Egypt as Fears of Terror Attack Grow
Is Moscow getting ready to acknowledge the Russian charter jet downed over the Sinai Peninsula may have been felled by a bomb?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Netanyahu Appointee Apologizes for Calling John Kerry Mentally Deficient
The man Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu picked as his new chief of public diplomacy apologized on Thursday for comparing Secretary of State John Kerry’s “mental age” to that of a 12-year-old and suggesting that President Barack Obama is anti-Semitic. Netanyahu also distanced himself from Ran Baratz’s remarks, which were posted on his Facebook page, saying he hadn’t been aware of them before the nomination.