Barack Obama Archives

Russia

I have a bone to pick with Tulsi Gabbard

Will any of the of the principal actors in the long-running attempted coup Trump be held to account?

Roger Kimball

How Trump can win the Nobel Peace Prize

The history of the prize, like history itself, is messy

Jay Nordlinger

A short ****ing history of presidential swearing

From Truman to Trump

Jay Nordlinger

Obama has traded credibility for Netflix contracts

His warnings about autocracy don’t carry the weight he thinks they do

David Sypher Jr.

G7 Regrowth?

WATCH: Trump hints Russia should rejoin G7

Trump blames Obama and ‘a person named Trudeau’ for the G8-to-G7 shrink

Cockburn

Cockburn’s Diary
May 13, 2025
Joe Biden, the Democrats’ tell-tale heart
Plus: the bizarre European cocaine conspiracy theory and Trump’s ‘fat shot’ tale
Cockburn
Policy
April 30, 2025
Josh Hawley talks Trump’s first 100 days: pro-life ‘needs to be a priority’
The Missouri Senator discusses tariffs, foreign policy and regulating the abortion pill
Ben Domenech
Bad Press
April 13, 2025
The left gives up on saving the planet
Perhaps it was performative all along
Stephen L. Miller
Politics
April 8, 2025
China won’t win its ‘fight to the end’ against Trump
Beijing wasn’t prepared for tariffs on this scale
Ian Williams
Internet
March 19, 2025
Harry Sisson and trial by TikTok
The Gen Z Democratic influencer is under fire for dating multiple women at once
Magdalene J. Taylor
Politics
February 27, 2025
Biden blames ‘Barack’ and ‘Pelosi’ for defeat, says Trump in Spectator interview
The president also discussed Ukraine, the NFL and podcasting
Ben Domenech
Politics
February 19, 2025
Elon Musk, the American Trotsky
Musk joked that he was ‘turning the government off and on again’ like a computer. Government isn’t a laptop
Iain Macwhirter
Cockburn’s Diary
January 24, 2025
Is it Democrat divorce season?
Plus: Trump appointee struggles for coherence before TV hit
Cockburn
Politics
January 9, 2025
The weird and wonderful presidential interactions at the Carter funeral
Make new friends, while keeping old…
Cockburn
Prejudices
December 26, 2024
The new political era
Donald J. Trump is, without a doubt, the most remarkable American politician to hold office since 1945
Chilton Williamson, Jr.