Barack Obama

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• SOURCE: ArtNet News
  5/19/2020
  

  In a Sign of a Divided America, President Trump Will Not Unveil Barack Obama’s New Portrait in the White House Anytime Soon

  Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will likely not be installed at the White House until Trump is out of office.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/20/2020
  

  Trump's Snub Over Obama Portrait is Part of a Plan

  Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates weighs in on Trump's consistent antipathy towards Barack Obama.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3/27/2020
  

  Why Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About “Folks”

  by John Patrick Leary

  Most politicians are playacting: a privileged cohort of other-than-real Americans desperately trying to convince a mass following that they are, indeed, just plain folks.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/5/2020
  

  Obama and I took a class about socialism's dark side. Bernie would have learned a lot.

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Imagine if Sanders praised Hitler for reducing cigarette smoking or Mussolini for making the trains run on time. The American left would be up in arms.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times
  7/30/2019
  

  Obama Presidential Center would have ‘adverse impact’ on historic Jackson Park, federal review concludes

  The finding by the Federal Highway Administration puts pressure on the Obama Foundation to find a way to “resolve adverse effects” and turns up the heat on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to order the foundation to make those changes.

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• 6/30/19
  

  The Case for Religious Progressivism

  by Walter G. Moss

  Those who argue, “We should keep religion out of politics,” are being simplistic. One can more properly cite individuals like Frederick Douglass, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and Pope Francis who counter that the spiritual and moral values commonly advocated by major religions should inspire our politics.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/11/2019
  

  Judge: Obama center construction can move forward in Chicago

  While the library has also faced criticism from residents over the traffic it will bring and people it will displace, Tuesday’s decision was largely celebrated by neighborhood organizations and business groups.

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• 3/10/19
  

  Three Unexpected Deaths That Shaped Presidential History

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Unexpected tragedy in the lives of three political leaders—John F. Kennedy, Jr., Paul Wellstone, and Joe Biden—demonstrate the profound impact of chance on political history. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  3/2/19
  

  Barack Obama’s Presidential Library Is Making a Mockery of Transparency

  by Anthony Clark

  The leader of the “most transparent administration in history” has been anything but transparent when it comes to plans for his presidential center.

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• SOURCE: NY Times Magazine
  2/20/19
  

  The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t

  President Obama unveiled the plans for the Obama Presidential Center in May 2017. He said he wanted a place that “looked forward, not backward, and would provide a place to train future leaders.”

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2/18/19
  

  Barack Obama Shares His Recommended Reading For Black History Month

  The books, letters and articles Obama shared were meant to provide “some essential context about the challenges that many people of color face every day,” he wrote on Facebook.

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• 2/16/19
  

  Barack Obama, Politics, and Presidential Rankings

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How can political circumstances alter how scholars rank past presidents? 

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• 1/20/19
  

  Will Beto O'Rourke Follow the Path of Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush to the Presidency?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  How previous longshot presidents defeated the odds. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-28-18
  

  From Obama and Baker, a Lament for a Lost Consensus

  Former Barack Obama and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III call for bipartisanship in a partisan era.

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• 9/23/18
  

  Barack Obama: American Historian

  by Steven Sarson

  An historian’s assessment of the 44th president’s understanding of American history.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  10-14-15
  

  American Studies leader sorry for press release

  David Roediger, president of the American Studies Association, sent an email to members apologizing for a press release that suggested he and the ASA back Obama’s police reforms

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• SOURCE: National Review
  6-3-14
  

  Our Future Is 1979

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  Unfortunately, bad things happen when the world concludes that the American president has become weakened, distracted, or diffident about foreign policy.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4-12-14
  

  America’s next great president: Why Obama’s departure paves the way for the next FDR

  by Michael Lind

  History explains the real differences between Obama and our liberal icons.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-12-14
  

  Obama and LBJ: Measuring the current president against the past one’s legacy

  by Dan Balz

  “What the hell’s the presidency for?”

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  3-25-14
  

  Madman in the White House

  by James Rosen and Luke Nichter

  This time, it's the Russians who are making use of Nixon's "madman theory."