Tag: Barack Obama

Since Obama exited the Oval Office, charges of xenophobia against Trump and his supporters have become commonplace. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Beltway Confidential

Too little too late? Obama urges supporters not to label opponents of immigration reform ‘racist’

Philip Wegmann · April 24, 2017 7:26 pm

Obama: ‘I probably wouldn’t have been president’ if certain high school photos surfaced

Pete Kasperowicz · April 24, 2017 5:29 pm

Former President Barack Obama hosts a conversation on civic engagement and community organizing, Monday, April 24, 2017, at the University of Chicago in Chicago. It's the former president's first public event of his post-presidential life in the place where he started his political career. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama: Immigration to the US always been ‘haphazard’

Kyle Feldscher · April 24, 2017 5:27 pm

Former President Barack Obama partly blamed the nation's splintered politics on a media structure that lets people only listen to or read media outlets they agree with. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Obama slams media that lets people reinforce ‘their own realities’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 24, 2017 4:22 pm

"The single most important thing I can do is to help, in any way I can, the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and take their own crack at changing the world," Obama said, "because the one thing that I'm absolutely convinced of is, yes, we confront a whole bunch of challenges ... they're serious, they're daunting, but they're not insolvable." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: The ‘most important thing I can do’ is prepare next generation of leaders

Kyle Feldscher · April 24, 2017 4:19 pm

"So uh, what's been going on while I've been gone?" (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama: ‘What’s been going on while I’ve been gone?’

Madeleine Morgenstern · April 24, 2017 4:08 pm

Politico: Obama’s Iran Prisoner Swap Angered Prosecutors and Law Enforcement

Jenna Lifhits · April 24, 2017 3:57 pm

The Obama administration dropped charges and ended searches for 14 Iranians in a low-key manner that managed to fly under the radar, and released seven other Iranians in a prisoner swap. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Report: Obama White House downplayed threats posed by released Iranians to protect nuclear deal

Kyle Feldscher · April 24, 2017 2:00 pm

"A Le Pen victory would be devastating to any mainstream definition of US interests and values since WWII," tweeted Ben Rhodes. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

National Security

Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes: A win for Marine Le Pen in France would be ‘devastating’

Daniel Chaitin · April 22, 2017 9:05 pm

The double standard simply highlights the power of partisan politics, and isn't evidence that Trump supporters and surrogates are racist. (AP Photo/Luis Alvarez, File)

Beltway Confidential

Conservatives are giving Trump a pass over golf trips because of politics, not racism

Op-Ed Contributor · April 22, 2017 9:00 pm

Obama-appointed US surgeon general resigns at Trump’s request

Daniel Chaitin · April 22, 2017 6:34 am

Former President Obama will speak at the University of Chicago Monday in his first public appearance since leaving office. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama to make first public appearance since leaving office in Chicago next week

Kyle Feldscher · April 21, 2017 2:24 pm