List of Barack Obama articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Palestinians Decide to Roll the Dice at the United Nations
A new Palestinian resolution setting a timeline for an Israeli withdrawal risks a serious rupture with the United States.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rewriting Syria’s War
An influential, unpublished report looks to radically revise notions of how to achieve peace in this war-torn country.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Mysterious Cuban Spy at the Center of Obama’s Havana Rapprochement
The normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba was sealed with an old-fashioned spy swap, and the man in the center of it is credited with rolling up Havana's best American networks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A New Dawn in Cuba
It took 53 years, but this was worth waiting for.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah to Step Down
One of the Obama administration’s most charismatic and well-liked bureaucrats is leaving his job next month.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Let’s Stick It to Cuba (and Make the Next Summit of the Americas Interesting)
Latin America has insisted on giving Cuba a seat at the table. The country's dissidents should get one too.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Fears New Iraqi Prime Minister Isn’t Serious About Sunni Outreach
Washington believed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi would get serious about recruiting Sunni tribes to fight the Islamic State. Now it's not so sure.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From Bush to Obama, Eyes Wide Shut
The same memo Bush used to wall himself off from the details of CIA torture is keeping Obama’s drone war alive.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Colbert Cameo Somehow Goes Viral in China
Reaction to the Obamacare skit says more about Chinese politics than it does about America.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CIA Ignored Its Own Lessons in Turning to Torture After 9/11
For decades, the CIA has known and acknowledged that torture doesn't work. Yet that's what it sought in the aftermath of 9/11.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Change He Doesn’t Believe In
The deliberative President Obama has launched a powerful "do something" foreign policy. But does he even buy his own fourth-quarter course correction?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Definite End to Indefinite Detention Is Within Reach
The Obama administration gave itself the tools and power to release the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. But it doesn't seem to want to use them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CIA’s Claims That Torture Stopped ‘Karachi Plots’ Are Baseless, Senate Report Says
The nation’s leading spy agency has long claimed credit for preventing a devastating attack in Pakistan. The Senate report says that’s a lie.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SEAL Team 6 and the High Costs of Trying to Save American Lives
How many times have U.S. special ops raids left foreign hostages dead by accident?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome Back, Dr. Carter
As the new secretary of defense, Ash Carter has a few battles ahead of him. And the toughest challenges won’t be ISIS or Putin.
