Barack Obama

One of the most ironclad rules in American politics is that the president’s party loses ground in midterm elections. Almost no president is immune. President George W. Bush’s Republicans took a “thumping” in 2006. President Barack Obama’s Democrats received a “shellacking” in 2010. President Donald Trump’s Republicans were buried under…

David Axelrod recalls the moment Harry Reid, along with Chuck Schumer, met with Barack Obama in the spring of 2006 and tried to persuade him to run for president. Obama recognized Reid was bucking the party establishment by planting the seeds of an insurgency -- and he decided this unexpected…

DUBAI: From the second year of the global pandemic to the overthrow of governments, from glimmers of hope for environmental justice to the world’s biggest sporting and cultural events, the past 12 months have been a roller-coaster ride for the Middle East and North Africa region. JANUARY AlUla Declaration The…

After a decade of food recalls under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), not everything has turned out as expected. President Barack Obama signed the FSMA into law during the first week of 2011. Among the many new powers that the FSMA gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

World leaders pay tribute to Desmond Tutu World leaders pay tribute to Desmond Tutu 03:36 Tributes and words of remeberance have been pouring in from all across the globe from world leaders following the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Former President Barack Obama shared a tribute of his own to…

Win McNamee/Getty Images When the United States needed a way in to begin talks with Kim Jong-un in 2012, a plan was proposed to then-President Barack Obama to have Steve Kerr play the North Korean leader in basketball. Economist Marcus Noland suggested the idea to Obama, per Alex Schiffer of The…

Former President Barack Obama took to Instagram to let his followers know what his favourite songs, films and books were through 2021. On Thursday December 16, he uploaded a list of 13 books and the post has already been liked over 380,000 times. He added the caption: "Over the next…

Former President Barack Obama has released his annual playlist featuring his favorite songs of the year. Among Obama’s favorite tracks of 2021 are Mitski’s “The Only Heartbreaker,” Nas and Ms. Lauryn Hill’s “Nobody,” Lizzo and Cardi B’s “Rumors,” Mdou Mcotar’s “Tala Tannam,” Wye Oak’s “Its Way With Me,” Yendry’s “Ya,”…

Home Countdowns (Image credit: NASA) Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet conspiracies do exist. In the corporate…

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has named The Last Duel and West Side Story as two of his favourite films of the year. Every year, the former leader releases his list of favourite films, TV shows and books on social media, and he kept up the tradition on Thursday, when…