Tag: President Obama
Obama wants his private presidential center on public land—and mainstream media...
Advocates say an alternate site in Washington Park is less disruptive and more beneficial to the community and the environment.
Obama insider confirms former president ready to back whoever wins 2020...
"...and whoever emerges from the primary process, I will work my tail off to make sure that they are the next president."
Did Barack Obama bring us Donald Trump?
I read an analysis by Bert Wolfe about Barack Obama. It made me sad to read it, even though it was perfectly...
“It wasn’t a golden age”: Cornel West says democrats have to...
Harvard professor Cornel West joins us from Detroit, where he attended both nights of the Democratic debate. He talks about the troubling...
Trump’s hurricane of hate
Trump will only back down if faced with massive grass-roots pressure.
How Obama took foreign policy forward – and back
When it came to race, climate, or diplomacy, Obama was like a visitor from the future. On trade and intervention, however, he was often stuck in the past.
Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to...
Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.
Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than...
It is possible attacks will resume with the change in presidency in January.
BREAKING: President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning’s sentence
The commutation was part of Obama’s Tuesday announcement of 209 commutations and 64 pardons.
Utah’s new national monument marks big win for the protection of...
By permanently protecting an area rich in indigenous cultural history, Obama has shown that some things are worth more than money.
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$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
Trump delivers lunch to Beijing
China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.
Omar says ICE drawdown ‘not enough’ as thousands of agents remain deployed in Minnesota
After Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal immigration agents would leave Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, civil rights groups, and national coalitions said the move leaves an ongoing occupation intact while killings, constitutional violations, and international human rights complaints remain unresolved.
Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP work requirements
Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.
The actual Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think
For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.