List of Barack Obama articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Arabia Strikes Back
In the wake of the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia has increasingly taken matters into its own hands.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Checking the Math on the Pentagon’s ISIS Body Counts
The Obama administration steadily updates the tally of dead combatants in its latest war — but can the numbers be trusted?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Biden Slams Trump on National Security: ‘His Shame Has No Limits’
The vice president singles out Trump’s friendliness toward Russia and his claim that Obama “founded” ISIS as evidence the GOP nominee is “already making our country less safe.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Defense of Obama’s Middle East ‘Balancing Act’
From the Iraq drawdown to chemical weapons red lines to Russia’s war in Syria, a conversation with Robert Malley, the president’s top Middle East policy official.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Quote of the day: President Obama reflects on his use of military power
Best Defense is in summer reruns. Here is an item that originally ran on March 11, 2016.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nuclear Weapons Aren’t Just For the Worst Case Scenario
Barack Obama is contemplating a revolutionary — and exceedingly dangerous — change to U.S. nuclear policy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghan Forces Use Child Soldiers, and the U.S. Still Gives Them Money
The Afghan government swore to do away with the practice, and, under its own laws, the U.S. government is barred from funding countries that employ it. So why did the United States still fork over some $470 million?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Is America’s Last Lonely Free Trader
The president is making a final push for a massive Asian trade deal that has been rejected by both Trump and Clinton — and by plenty of the powerful Republicans who once supported it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 French President: Donald Trump’s Excesses Are Vomit-Inducing
Francois Hollande couldn't hold back from explaining what Trump's comments make him want to do.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Should Cancel Trump’s Intelligence Briefings
If the Republican candidate is unfit for office, he’s unfit to receive classified information — unless he signs a nondisclosure agreement.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama Skewers Trump As ‘Unfit’ to be Commander in Chief
The president slams the Republican nominee as “woefully unprepared” and lacking “basic knowledge.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump: Putin Is a Better Leader than Obama
Trump's bromance with the Russian strongman continues.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bill Clinton’s Loyalty Test for Muslim Americans
It’s time for the Democrats to rise above the GOP’s divisive anti-Muslim rhetoric. Here’s hoping Hillary won’t repeat her husband’s shameful words.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Democrats Say the World Is Too Dangerous for a President Trump
Obama and other Democratic heavyweights take aim at the GOP front-runner's dystopian vision of the United States — and say Trump is the real threat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Support of World Bank Capital Replenishment
Global leadership does not come for free.
