Barack Obama Archives

Hopeless

Is the cult of Obama finally over?

At the O2 Arena in London, the president sounded exasperated. His worldview had lost

Max Jeffery

Stephen King, The Long Walk and Charlie Kirk

King feels too much and thinks too little

Alexander Larman

Is Trump DC’s Batman?

Plus: Giacomo Kimmel in Diretta?

Cockburn

I have a bone to pick with Tulsi Gabbard

Will any of the of the principal actors in the long-running attempted coup Trump be held to account?

Roger Kimball

Nobel aims

How Trump can win the Nobel Peace Prize

The history of the prize, like history itself, is messy

Jay Nordlinger

Politics
June 25, 2025
A short ****ing history of presidential swearing
From Truman to Trump
Jay Nordlinger
Policy
June 19, 2025
Obama has traded credibility for Netflix contracts
His warnings about autocracy don’t carry the weight he thinks they do
David Sypher Jr.
International
June 16, 2025
WATCH: Trump hints Russia should rejoin G7
Trump blames Obama and ‘a person named Trudeau’ for the G8-to-G7 shrink
Cockburn
Cockburn’s Diary
May 13, 2025
Joe Biden, the Democrats’ tell-tale heart
Plus: the bizarre European cocaine conspiracy theory and Trump’s ‘fat shot’ tale
Cockburn
Policy
April 30, 2025
Josh Hawley talks Trump’s first 100 days: pro-life ‘needs to be a priority’
The Missouri Senator discusses tariffs, foreign policy and regulating the abortion pill
Ben Domenech
Bad Press
April 13, 2025
The left gives up on saving the planet
Perhaps it was performative all along
Stephen L. Miller
Politics
April 8, 2025
China won’t win its ‘fight to the end’ against Trump
Beijing wasn’t prepared for tariffs on this scale
Ian Williams
Internet
March 19, 2025
Harry Sisson and trial by TikTok
The Gen Z Democratic influencer is under fire for dating multiple women at once
Magdalene J. Taylor
Politics
February 27, 2025
Biden blames ‘Barack’ and ‘Pelosi’ for defeat, says Trump in Spectator interview
The president also discussed Ukraine, the NFL and podcasting
Ben Domenech
Politics
February 19, 2025
Elon Musk, the American Trotsky
Musk joked that he was ‘turning the government off and on again’ like a computer. Government isn’t a laptop
Iain Macwhirter