Showing results for: Barack Obama (page 197)
Wayne LaPierre’s biggest win: The National Rifle Association was pushing Trumpism long before Donald Trump
Heather Digby Parton
NRA head Wayne LaPierre has been pushing a radical anti-establishment vision for years. Did he create this monster?
Payday lenders may soon find friends in Washington
Angelo Young
Efforts by federal regulators to try to reel in predatory lending practices could be curtailed by Republicans
We’re better equipped to live through Trump than we were Bush
Maegan Carberry
We survived the G. W. Bush regression without social media and digital activism; we can hold our own against Trump
The moral foundations of fascism: Warring psychological theories struggle to make sense of Hitler, Mussolini and you-know-who
Paul Rosenberg
An abstruse but bitter debate in social psychology sheds crucial light on Donald Trump, and the history behind him
War based on deception: Bush’s Iraq lies, uncontested, will haunt us under Donald Trump
Medea Benjamin
Reminder: Iraq posed absolutely no threat to the United States
Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel: Donald Trump has an opportunity “to do enormous good” — or to create “chaos”
Cody Cain
Obama's healthcare adviser says the ACA has been a success — and, believe it or not, Trump could make it better
No more reader-in-chief: After Obama, Trump the nonreader amounts a real national loss
Jason Kyle Howard
It's not just Obama — JFK, Nixon, even George W. Bush valued books. We all lose when the president isn't a reader
This week in Donald Trump’s conflicts of interests: He’s not really going to leave his business
Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump stands to make good money as president
Mike Pence abandons Reaganomics: “The free market has been sorting it out and America’s been losing”
Taylor Link
In an interview with The New York Times, the leaders of the GOP reveal a shift away from free-market capitalism
Goodbye Michelle Obama, America’s mother-in-chief
Sara Hayden
Reactions to Michelle Obama offered insights into the complex world of grounding politics in maternal appeals
Geopolitics in the age of Donald Trump: Figuring out the president-elect’s worldview is really difficult
Ryan Bohl
Before realizing what Donald Trump plans to do, we have to know what he believes. That's not easy
Congress just killed legislation allowing LGBT workers to be fired — but anti-gay discrimination under Trump is here to stay
Nico Lang
The Russell Amendment is dead, but threats from an incoming administration most notable for intolerance are real
Dreamers get an ally: Lindsey Graham wants to protect children of undocumented immigrants
Matthew Rozsa
Graham plans on proposing legislation that will keep one of Obama's top policy items alive
WATCH: CNN anchor debunks Fox report in which Donald Trump voter repeats fraud myth
Sophia Tesfaye
CNN's Alysin Camerota did a literal facepalm after 1 Trump voter falsely cited 3 million illegal votes
Post-Brexit, George Mitchell worries about collapse of Northern Ireland peace agreement
Carrie Sheffield
The diplomatic heavyweight tells Salon that the possibility of a closed border has him concerned
Calling Jeff Sessions “racist” conveniently ignores the work he’s done for Alabama’s black community
Carrie Sheffield
Lowndes County, Alabama, needed help, and Sessions came through. Liberal critics need to give him credit
Donald Trump’s poisoned planet: The Bush-era EPA set back climate-change progress by decades — this could be worse
Amanda Marcotte
Our next president can't end the EPA, as he promised, but he can use legal chicanery to render it toothless
Reply hazy, try again: Donald Trump unlikely to create 208,000 jobs a month for 10 years
Angelo Young
Friday's jobs report should be strong, but historical data suggests Trump's employment goal will be an uphill fight
Shepard Fairey on street art: “It has the ability to reach people who are not a captive audience”
Scott Timberg
The artist talks about a new book about a New York street-art event, Obama and fighting corporate control
“This is not about you”: President Obama gives advice to Donald Trump in his interview with Rolling Stone
Matthew Rozsa
In a wide-ranging interview, the president reflects on his time in office and whether Michelle Obama will run
White House says Dylan Bob Dylan won’t attend meeting with President Obama for Nobel Prize
The Associated Press
Dylan has the won't visit the White House blues
Nancy Pelosi fends off challenger Tim Ryan to maintain her leadership of House Democrats
Taylor Link
Despite frustration in the Democratic caucus, the party decided to keep its leader in the House
Donald Trump’s administration could be planning a witch hunt against “political Islam”
Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump's team could lean on Frank Gaffney, a former Pentagon officer who thinks Muslim agents are everywhere
Inauguration donors will have a VIP experience when Donald Trump is sworn into office
Carrie Levine
The populist president-elect is offering donation packages for seven figure contributions
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