Barack Obama

What Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Win Meant For American Music

Dr. Todd Boyd on Hip Hop’s Long Journey to American Cultural Dominance

 
By Dr. Todd Boyd  February 21, 2024
Supreme Court

Mythologized Impartiality: A Conversation About the Supreme Court’s Checkered Past and Future

By Literary Hub  December 20, 2023
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars Became Political Signifiers

By Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader  November 13, 2023
Catholicism

Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
On Poetry

The Complicated Emotions of Reading a Poem at the White House

By Joshua Bennett  March 29, 2023
Culture Wars

Moral Panics Never Go Out of Style: On the Corrosive Effects of the Culture Wars

By Arlene Stein  November 16, 2022
Politics

How President Obama Marked 50 Years of Civil Rights Struggle With One of His Most Memorable Speeches

By Cody Keenan  October 17, 2022
Politics

How Barack Obama Helped Joe Biden Become the 46th President of the United States

By Gabriel Debenedetti  September 19, 2022
American Politics

Just How Much Did the Benghazi Attack Affect the Outcome of the 2016 Election?

By Ethan Chorin  September 7, 2022
Keen On

We Are Still Living in Nixon’s Paranoid America—and It’s Killing Us

By Andrew Keen  August 5, 2022
The Hub

Barack Obama is ready to join the To Paradise discourse.

By Jessie Gaynor  July 26, 2022
Iraq War

How ISIS Filled the Power Vacuum Left By US Forces In Iraq

By Michael R. Gordon  July 26, 2022
American Politics

What Will It Take to Resuscitate American Democracy?

By Stephen Marche  February 10, 2022
The Hub

Everything you need to know about the controversy over Obama’s presidential library.

By Walker Caplan  September 29, 2021
Open Source

A Collective Delusion: On the End of the War in Afghanistan

By Open Source  September 3, 2021
The Hub

11 out-of-context stills from New Girl that perfectly sum up books.

By Katie Yee  August 30, 2021
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Obama Era Redux: Nawaaz Ahmed on Islam, Sexuality, Politics, and Publishing His First Novel

By Fiction Non Fiction  August 26, 2021
The Hub

Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama are teaming up on a book.

By Walker Caplan  July 22, 2021
The Hub

These are the books Barack Obama thinks you should read this summer.

By Emily Temple  July 12, 2021
The Hub

Barack Obama on why libraries are more critical to the American project than ever.

By Walker Caplan  July 2, 2021
Storytelling

On the Valuable Writing Lessons I Learned as a Television Reporter

By Nancy Johnson  April 1, 2021
Travel

Read the newly announced inscription for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.

By Walker Caplan  March 8, 2021
Audiobooks

Recording A Promised Land with Barack Obama

By AudioFile Magazine  January 29, 2021
Keen On

Just Because ‘America’s Back’ Doesn’t Mean We Belong at the Head of the Table

By Keen On  January 27, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Andy Borowitz on Political Satire After the Trump Administration

By The Quarantine Tapes  January 27, 2021
The Hub

Read every presidential inauguration poem ever performed (there are fewer than you think).

By Emily Temple  January 20, 2021
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