Barack Obama

The last time a Republican administration nearly ran the country into the ground, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse took to the floor of Congress with a warning. It was a month after George W. Bush had left office in January 2009, and Whitehouse—once the U.S. attorney in Rhode Island as well as…

For a generation, when Lawrence Summers talked, politicians listened. As a powerful and trusted adviser to the last two Democratic presidents, the Harvard professor held sway throughout the Treasury Department and White House. But this March, he started singing a very different tune. In an interview with Bloomberg, he sputtered…

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday evening called former President Barack Obama a "creepy old man" for urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine in a public service announcement. In a segment on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host played Obama's recent remarks about the vaccine on NBC News, before…

10 years ago, just before midnight on May 1st 2011, President Barack Obama announced that the United States of America had killed the world’s most-wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden had evaded justice for 10 years after orchestrating the September 11th attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and the…

Former President Barack Obama thanked Adm. William McRaven, the Navy SEAL who oversaw the bin Laden raid, with the gift of a tape measure, according to Obama's 2020 book, "A Promised Land." The gift was an inside joke from the mission and perhaps the first light-hearted moment in a very…

On January 13, one week before the inauguration of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States and seven long days after the storming of the Capitol by an armed right-wing mob, it was easy enough to miss an article published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science,…

BARACK OBAMA has said the Queen is one of the world leaders he would most like to have in a group text chat due to her sense of humour.PUBLISHED: 00:49, Sat, Mar 13, 2021 | UPDATED: 10:39, Sat, Mar 13, 2021 Link copied Barack Obama discusses Michelle with Prince Harry…

President Barack Obama just recalled a party he went to with Michelle in the early days of their relationship, and it sounds like the most “college girl introducing her boyfriend to her friends” story ever.  In an exclusive clip from the next episode of Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s podcast,…

It takes work to manage mental health, even—or especially—for presidents. And former president Barack Obama gave a few new details about the things that helped him while in office in a recent interview with TheSkimm as part of its Minute to Skimm It digital series. “In jobs of great stress,…

Former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are appearing in new ads as part of an effort to persuade people to get vaccinated. The Morning Joe panel discusses.March 11, 2021 Read More