Dana Liebelson: 4 failures Obama should remedy in his second term
Posted on November 15, 2012, at 6:20 AMThe president no longer has to worry about getting votes, so he should start addressing the politically problematic things he ignored in his first term
Paul Brandus: Deconstructing the 5 most ridiculous myths about Barack Obama
Posted on November 5, 2012, at 6:18 AMThe 44th president has long been the target of misinformation, smear campaigns, and outright, bald-faced lies
Barack Obama on Reddit: 5 takeaways
Posted on August 30, 2012, at 12:53 PMThe president makes a surprise appearance on the social-news site to take questions from users — attracting so much traffic that the site crashes
Has Obama gone too soft on welfare?
Posted on August 8, 2012, at 11:31 AMRomney accuses Obama of dismantling welfare reform by offering states waivers on welfare-to-work requirements. Will the attack hurt Obama, or could it backfire?
Obama's sagging global popularity: 4 theories
Posted on June 14, 2012, at 10:42 AMWhen he first took office, President Obama was a rock star overseas. Now those days are gone. Here, a dissection of his fall from grace
Did Obama taint America's relationship with Poland?
Posted on May 30, 2012, at 3:42 PMThe president faces an angry backlash after he refers to a "Polish death camp"... instead of a "Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland"
Did Obama really try to bribe Jeremiah Wright?
Posted on May 14, 2012, at 11:14 AMA widely criticized author claims a friend of the president offered Wright money to stay out of sight during the 2008 campaign. Too unbelievable to be true?
Paul Brandus: What the Chen Guangcheng debacle reveals about Obama
Posted on May 8, 2012, at 10:40 AMThe president surely knows that protecting a threatened Chinese activist is the right thing to do. But sadly, it seems he lacks the resolve to truly follow through
From Jesus to Charlie Brown: 18 ways The Week has depicted Obama
Posted on April 19, 2012, at 2:04 PMThe president is many things to many people, especially to those who edit The Week magazine. Here's a review of how our covers have metaphorically made over Obama
9 presidential hot-mic gaffes: A slideshow
Posted on March 29, 2012, at 6:15 AMObama is catching grief for an unguarded remark to Dmitry Medvedev. But plenty of world leaders have goofed up by failing to ask, "Is this thing on?"
The 20-year-old video of Obama protesting at Harvard
Posted on March 8, 2012, at 10:34 AMVintage footage of the young law student standing up for minority rights goes viral — and inspires a "gotcha!" from the Right
Obama's Super Tuesday news conference: 4 highlights
Posted on March 6, 2012, at 5:27 PMFor the first time this year, President Obama opens up to the media at the White House, hitting his GOP rivals on everything from Iran to women's issues
Samuel L. Jackson's 'racist' reason for voting Obama: 'Because he was black'
Posted on February 13, 2012, at 11:24 AMIn an interview with Ebony, Jackson shares his views on the American political system. Not everyone is appreciative
Edward Morrissey: Obama is not the most polarizing president ever
Posted on January 31, 2012, at 4:05 PMDespite The Washington Post's rather preposterous claim, this president is not the nation's most divisive ever. Not even close
Paul Brandus: Obama's 5 biggest mistakes
Posted on January 31, 2012, at 6:30 AMThe president's Republican opponents will surely spend 2012 hammering away at his failures. So what exactly are they?
Jan Brewer vs. Obama: Is the president 'thin-skinned'?
Posted on January 26, 2012, at 5:41 PMThe Arizona governor and the president get off on the wrong foot as soon as he steps off his plane in Phoenix
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