Barack Obama
J’Accuse Barack Obama!
Leonard Toboroff 27 June 2020 3:04 am
When President Obama was in his 75-day transition to the Presidency, he initiated correspondence with Supreme Leader Khamenei of Iran…
Rod Rosenstein’s devastating admissions
Charles Lipson 9 June 2020 2:33 am
Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was quiet, calm, almost bemused. But the tale he told was devastating…
Obama should apologize to Trump
Matt Mayer 24 May 2020 2:13 am
Anyone who has children understands the importance of teaching them to say ‘sorry’ when they’ve done wrong. Apologizing for causing…
Obama’s political police
Leonard Toboroff 21 May 2020 11:56 pm
In the beginning there was a clandestine ‘surveillance’ and ‘unmasking’ program by operatives in the Obama executive branch, targeting figures…
Joe Biden’s broken record
Cockburn 12 May 2020 7:40 am
‘Get your words straight, Jack!’ As Joe Biden campaigns for the Oval Office, the 77-year-old frequently recounts his five decades…
What Biden’s recent endorsers said about Kavanaugh and #MeToo
Amber Athey 28 April 2020 10:37 am
Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, claimed in an interview last month that the former vice president…
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden is comedy gold
Roger Kimball 15 April 2020 4:28 am
Anyone who doubts that Barack Obama has a sense of humor should take a look of his endorsement of Joe Biden…
Joe Biden, restoration man
Will Lloyd 8 March 2020 9:33 am
The results of Super Tuesday show that while Joe Biden can’t be described as coherent, the Biden campaign has found…
Sordid confessions of a Centrist Dad
Sam Leith 16 November 2019 9:00 am
I have a shameful secret. I’ve been watching these… videos online. Amazing what you can get in a couple of…
Barack Obama helped create cancel culture. Now he condemns it
Niall Gooch 1 November 2019 3:06 am
Like many others, I was very struck by recent footage of Barack Obama criticizing cancel culture. Less than three years…
Joe Biden is a Trump Republican
Curt Mills 8 June 2019 3:24 am
If Joe Biden snatches the White House from Donald Trump in 2020, he will govern as a modern liberal. This…
Why Joe won’t blow it
Michael Tracey 11 May 2019 4:54 am
A common fallacy circulating among the pundit class is that every presidential election cycle will be as ‘disruptive’ as 2016…
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
Daniel McCarthy 24 April 2019 7:04 pm
Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political…
Democrats, not Republicans, will dismantle Obama’s legacy
Will Lloyd 16 April 2019 3:45 am
Last week Barack Obama, grayer, wearier and older in every way, was in Berlin at one of his foundation’s conferences for ‘emerging…
The question isn’t if Joe Biden will screw up: it’s when
Charles Lipson 15 March 2019 2:46 am
Joe Biden seems on the verge of announcing he will run for president. He begins in a strong position, leading…
Michelle Obama: ‘I was happy that Barack’s career came first’
Hermione Eyre 1 December 2018 9:00 am
‘To me, he was sort of like a unicorn,’ writes Mrs Obama, looking back on her courtship days with Barack.…
A Weekend in New York, by Benjamin Markovits, reviewed
James McNamara 30 June 2018 9:00 am
I wrote foul-mouthed marginalia throughout Benjamin Markovits’s A Weekend in New York. Not because Markovits is a bad writer —…
Lend me your ears
Alex Marklew 21 October 2017 9:00 am
Complaints about the decline and fall of political oratory are nothing new. Back in 1865 a British reporter branded the…
Italy’s heading for its own Brexit moment
Nicholas Farrell 19 November 2016 9:00 am
Though he is a big fan of the European Union, Barack Obama brings bad karma to it. So perhaps he…
Portrait of the week
The Spectator 28 May 2016 9:00 am
Home The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long…
Portrait of the Week: doctors on strike, President Obama’s Brexit threat
The Spectator 30 April 2016 9:00 am
Home Junior doctors went on strike for two days, refusing to provide even emergency treatment. The 96 Liverpool fans who…
Michael Dobbs’s diary: Talking House of Cards with President Xi
Michael Dobbs 30 April 2016 9:00 am
I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…
Putting a price on Winston Churchill’s head
The Spectator 30 April 2016 9:00 am
Getting a head Barack Obama dismissed Boris Johnson’s accusations that he shown disdain for Sir Winston Churchill by removing a bust…
A puzzle for President Obama: is it really that British to queue?
Dot Wordsworth 30 April 2016 9:00 am
The language that President Barack Obama used was evidence of skulduggery, Nigel Farage declared. ‘The UK is gonna be in…
Obama’s Brexit overreach is typical of his arrogance
Tim Montgomerie 23 April 2016 9:00 am
The US President is in no position to lecture the British about foreign policy