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Barack Obama

Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting Ben Rhodes is accompanied by Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz at a press briefing at Martha's Vineyard
Foreign policy
The post-9/11 generation ‘came to understand the limits of what America could accomplish,’ former Obama adviser says
Students stand in a line in front of the US Supreme Court with signs that read "Home is here"
Immigration
A new generation of DACA youth depends on Biden for support
Christopher Krebs is shown seated and wearing a blue suit and light blue tie while speaking into a small microphone.
2020 US presidential election
Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 vote security
A large coal processing plant is shown from above with several smokestacks billowing emmissions.
Climate Change
China, top global emitter, aims to go carbon-neutral by 2060
US President Donald Trump is shown sitting at a wooden table next to then Defense Secretary James Mattis with the US flag behind them.
Top of The World
Mattis, Obama speak out; The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown; Arctic oil spill
Latino leaders and immigration reform supporters gather at the University of Colorado to launch a voter registration campaign to mobilize Colorado's Latino, immigrant and allied voters on Oct. 28, 2015.
Every 30 Seconds
The key to winning the Latino vote in 2020? Latinas.
Cuban Americans protest Raul Castro leaving office as Cuba's president and Miguel Diaz Canel named as the new president, in Little Havana neighborhood in Miami, Florida
Immigration
Analysis: Beyond Cuban exceptionalism and toward the 2020 elections
Samantha Power sitting The World's studio for a radio interview.
Conflict & Justice
Former Amb Samantha Power stresses ‘political evolution, rather than revolution’
Men and women sit around a negotiating table with flags in the background.
Nuclear
Things That Go Boom: In nuclear negotiations, diplomacy can be a slog
A sign reads: "It's 2 minutes to midnight"
Nuclear
‘Things That Go Boom:’ Nothing good happens after ‘nuclear midnight’
George W. Bush holds a loud speaker in his hand.
Global Politics
The US is currently in 31 other national emergencies. Here’s what that means.
Former US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano gives her final official speech at the National Press Club in Washington on August 27, 2013.
Immigration
Wall would be ‘wasteful and ineffective,’ says former Homeland Security chief Napolitano
The company Oneida Limited had been making flatware in Sherrill, New York since 1880, but the factory was shut down in 2005 and work was shifted to Asia. Today, 53 people are working at a new company, Liberty Tabletop, the only manufacturer of flatware in
Jobs
Trump hypes jobs relocating back to the US. Are they?
Copper and blue colored pipes are shown stacked on their sides in Gascoyne, North Dakota.
A judge has halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline
Police allow someone to pass outside the Time Warner Center
Conflict
Officials investigating bombs sent to top Democrats and CNN as election looms
US President Donald Trump speaks as UN Ambassador Nikki Haley looks on
Watch: President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations
US President Donald Trump is seen sitting at a table with his hands outstretched with other cabinet officials sitting adjacent.
Politics
The US military may house immigrant children as Trump policy beset by confusion
Members of environmental groups hold up banners calling for renewable energy at the United Nations climate talks that took place in Bonn, Germany in 2015. Bonn was the site of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2017, in which co
Climate Change
As latest UN climate change summit looms, delegates have plenty of work to do
President Donald Trump arrives in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington DC, May 7, 2018.
Global Politics
Trump expected to leave Iran nuclear deal; Tehran defiant
City streets and highway overpasses are shown in San Diego, California.
Economics
Scott Pruitt’s plan would double allowable auto emissions by 2025
Artists and Obama
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
The Making of an Icon
Arts, Culture & Media
Voicemails for Barack: Part IV
Arts, Culture & Media
Voicemails for Barack: Part III
Arts, Culture & Media
“Are You There, Barack? It’s Me, Artist.”
Arts, Culture & Media
At the Sound of the Beep
Arts, Culture & Media
Brian Williams Raps, Game of Thrones Maps, and More
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Vitali Shkliarov
Global Politics
Meet the man who volunteered for Obama, worked for Bernie and is now consulting Putin’s opponent
The Trump Tower logo is pictured in New York, May 23, 2016.
Business
Did Donald Trump profit from his own presidential transition?
Demonstrators protest in front of the White House, Sept. 5, 2017.
Justice
A judge has blocked Trump’s move to end the DACA program
Illustrator Barry Blitt at his home studio in Connecticut
Culture
Barry Blitt may call himself ‘old-timey,’ but his political artwork is up-to-the-minute
Keystone Pipeline
Environment
The Keystone XL pipeline gets a victory, but with a question mark
Tourists walk in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 8, 2017.
Global Politics
Trump’s new restrictions on travel to Cuba are being panned by American travelers
A 1923 Ku Klux Klan parade in Albany is pictured
Conflict
In the shadow of a racist past, Portland still struggles to be welcoming to all its residents
The entrance of Trump International Hotel
Justice
Commentary: Americans should demand reforms that ensure government serves the people
Grand Escalante
Environment
US interior secretary recommends altering some national monuments for commercial use
Trump and Obama
Leaders
In a letter to Trump, Obama stressed the need to keep democracy strong
Putin
Global Politics
Report: Obama knew of Russia election interference, hesitated on countermeasures
Hayden
Conflict
Former NSA director says this White House can’t handle the truth
U.S. President Barack Obama greets an adoring crowd in Cannes, France on November 4, 2011.
Global Politics
The French have been desperate for Obama to get involved in their politics. He just did.
Global Politics
Watch live: Former President Obama delivers his first public speech since leaving office
Aya Hijazi, founder of a nonprofit charity that looks after Egyptian street children, sat reading a book inside a holding cell as she faced trial in a courthouse in Cairo, Egypt on March 23.
Justice
American charity worker in Egypt is acquitted after three years in jail
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
Drones
Keeping up with killer technology
Full Episode
Former President and First Lady Michelle Obama dance together at the Governors Ball in 2009.
Arts
Reflecting on eight years of Obama’s executive actions and ‘dad jeans’
Crowd photos
Election 2016
Photos: Compare the crowd at Trump’s inauguration with Obama’s
Obama speaks at his last press conference on Jan. 17, 2017.
Justice
Obama set a record for commuting sentences — but he’s not the most forgiving president in history
Barack Obama Kogelo
Education
Kenyans in Obama’s ancestral village worry the world will forget them now
Prisoners released
Conflict
After being apart for years, four prisoners released from Guantanamo are reunited with loved ones in Saudi Arabia
Bodies and feet of two young people, one pregnant
Justice
On the way to the US, children seeking asylum are often put in Mexico’s detention centers
Obama press conference
Media
Watch Obama’s last press conference of 2016
US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One after a refueling stop in Lajes Air Base in the Azores, Portugal, on his way to Peru.
Global Politics
Obama faces tough questions about Trump on his last foreign trip
Youth supporters of Hillary Clinton mourn the election of Donald Trump during the World Climate Change Conference 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco.
Environment
Will Trump bring a U-turn on climate policy? Probably, but …
Obama address Trump win
Global Politics
Watch President Obama address the nation after Donald Trump’s win
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.
Environment
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
Donald Trump, at a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, during a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Global Politics
Arab countries are underwhelmed by Clinton, but most prefer her to Trump
Leaders
Environment
After quick action, the Paris climate deal is set to go into effect way earlier than expected
A Laotian soldier stands outside the venue of the ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos September 6, 2016.
Conflict
Obama visits Laos, pledges money to rid country of Vietnam-era bombs
Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping
Environment
Obama seeks to cement a climate legacy with China before the US election