At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party..

Barack Obama is an intellectual..

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician..

It's absolutely true that people who believed Hillary Clinton would be a decent or even strong nominee need to think why that got that wrong. Laying ….

It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to musc….

Liberals will only support you after you're gone..

In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really high level..

Barack Obama is pretty similar to the person you see in public, at press conferences. He's a little saltier, a little more sarcastic and cutting..

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition..

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomati….

Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far….

That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain t….

Obama took 20 million people from the category of ignorables and put them into the category of unignorables. No one had to do anything for these 20 m….

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculo….

It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous….

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what c….

The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of the party. The moderate,….

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end..

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance..

On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it is for the Republicans to eliminate….

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life..