List of Barack Obama articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pivot to Tehran
Washington long told Iran the price of admission to any Syria peace talks was a commitment to ushering Assad out of power. Not anymore.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The French Aren’t Too Pleased With Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush's quip about the French work week isn't going over too well with the French.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Whatever Happened to Indonesia’s Answer to Obama?
President Joko Widodo has become an embarrassment for many young Indonesians, like me.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Violence Surging in Israel, Washington Retreats From New Diplomatic Push at Turtle Bay
The administration had told its allies it was ready to pressure Israel at the U.N. toward a peace deal. But the White House is now backpedaling from its threat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congress Is Running Around Playing Budgetary Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
Republican dysfunction returns, just in time for another budget fight.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lax Americana
Why a United States that’s trying to do a little less is good for the world – and good for America.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 At the U.N., Beijing Begins to Shift Away From Putin
Beijing and Moscow have long maintained a united front against the West. That’s changing as a rising China begins to chart its own course.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Fail Better’ Should Not Be the Motto of the U.S. Military
David Rothkopf, Rosa Brooks, Kori Schake, and Tom Ricks wrestle with America's recent legacy in the Middle East and what's broken with the last superpower's armed forces.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Teenager Arrested for Making a Clock Now Being Trolled for Visiting the White House
Sen. Ted Cruz and Twitter trolls aren't happy about Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teenager arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school, visiting the White House.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Definition of Insanity Is U.S. AfPak Strategy
The central problem confronting the United States in the region is no longer al Qaeda or the Taliban. It’s the Pakistan Army.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 With Putin in Syria, Allies Question Obama’s Resolve
Washington’s failure to react to the Russian strongman has Mideast powers doubting U.S. relevance like never before.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Support for Saudi Strikes in Yemen Raises War Crime Concerns
A top American lawmaker says the Obama administration’s military assistance to Riyadh may violate U.S. law.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Finally, Obama gives us the small Afghan war plan we should have pursued in 2001
Last week I asked a friend what the Afghan war would look like had we gone small in the fall of 2001 — that is, not tried to run the whole country, but instead stuck with a regime protection force in Kabul.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Syria, Desperate Times Call for Desperate Spin
Obama insists Vladimir Putin's Syria campaign is the act of a desperate man crippled by Western sanctions. A closer look shows the president's mistaken.
