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, 2014 Article 1 The Washington Post America is slipping to No. 2. Don't panic. Charles Kenny Art"1e 2 The New Yorker On and off the road with Barack Obama. David Remnick Anoc I. The Washington Post America is slipping to No. 2. Don't panic. Charles Kenny January 18, 2014 -- Charles Kenny is a seni

e Jarrett, Obama's most intimate consigliere. To admirers, Jarrett is known as "the third Obama"; to wary aides, who envy her long history with the Obamas and her easy access to the living quarters of the White House, she is the Night Stalker. Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, David Plouffe,

icorruption. The New Yorker On and off the road with Barack Obama. David Remnick January 27, 2014 -- On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving, Barack Obama sat in the office cabin of Air Force One wearing a look of heavy- lidded annoyance. The Affordable Care Act, his signature domestic achieveme

but be overtaken by China. You only need recall President Obama and Mitt Romney sparring over who would be toughe

e Recovery Act, has probably kept more people out of poverty than a whole lot of other government programs that are currently in place." Johnson's Great Society will be fifty years old in 2014, but no Republican wants a repeat of that scale of government ambition. Obama acknowledges this, saying, "The appet

the great dream of the Democratic Party, the last big piece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society left to be put into place. From the moment Barack Obama and congressional Democrats accomplished that in 2O1O, with the passage of the Affordable Care Act — known popularly as Obamacare — Republicans and

e Care Act — known popularly as Obamacare — Republicans and conservative activists have pursued an equally single-minded dream: the total repeal of Obama's signature accomplishment. So why — nearly a month into Donald Trump's presidency, and with Republican majorities in both the Senate and the House

ciety left to be put into place. From the moment Barack Obama and congressional Democrats accomplished t

017 NYTimes.com » For decades, universal health care was the great dream of the Democratic Party, the last big piece of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society left to be put into place. From the moment Barack Obama and congressional Democrats accomplished that in 2O1O, with the passage of the Affordable C

ive to a wide variety of conservative celebrities, including, over the years, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and various Fox News stars. The year before Obama’s reelection, Trump fell into this category. But he was viewed quite differently four years later. In the winter of 2016, during the still competitiv

. There was video documenting the attack and substantial agreement among intelligence agencies about Assad’s responsibility. The politics were right: Barack Obama failed to act when confronted with a Syrian chemical attack, and now Trump could. The downside was small; it would be a contained response. And it ha

court earlier. ANEW LOW! (4:49 a.m.) How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred elec

y needed was a man like John McCormick, the Democratic Speaker of the House who had served during Bannon’s teenage years and had shepherded Johnson’s Great Society legislation. McCormick and other Democrats from the 1960s were Bannon’s political heroes—put Tip O’Neill in that pantheon, too. An Irish Catholic wor

s with the investigation into Trump's campaign advisers in 2016 and their ties to Russia, federal prosecutor John Durham hasn't found wrongdoing by Obama-era intelligence officials involved who were outside of the FBI." But Durham is "still at work, looking at early aspects of the FBI investigation i

tter' package Wednesday in Pittsburgh," and the AP says "new details and proposals are emerging of a massive investment on par with the New Deal or Great Society programs." The package, "with higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy expected to be proposed to pay for it," is "transforming the old ideas o

thin weeks, millions were on the streets in Egypt and Hosni Mubarak was gone, shown the door in part by his longtime backer, the U.S. government. The Obama administration was captivated by this spontaneous outbreak of democratic demands and at first welcomed it with few reservations. In Riyadh, Saudi off

the Saudis were concerned. And earlier this year, President Obama declined a personal appeal from the king to withh

nt goals of any sort there. The United States was primarily interested in stability. Despite brave speeches on democracy by both Condeleezza Rice and Barack Obama in Cairo, the United States actually pulled its punches in pushing serious democratic reform on Egypt, particularly after the Hamas electoral victory