The former president’s ‘A Promised Land’ sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America, roughly equal to the combined first-week sales of memoirs by his two immediate predecessors.
Barack Obama
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Obama releases ad in support of Gideon
The former president appears in a 1-minute video to support the Democratic House Speaker’s bid for U.S. Senate.
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Kamala Harris accepts Democratic nomination for vice president
The first Black woman on a major party ticket issues an urgent plea for Americans of all colors to rally behind Joe Biden and find a way to vote despite concerns about the pandemic and postal slowdowns.
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Jim Fossel: Congress should stand up to Trump’s power grab
The Founders wanted the legislative branch to be a check on the executive’s power, but that’s not happening.
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Maine Voices: Trump rights a wrong by reopening marine monument to fishing
Though Maine vessels don’t routinely fish Seamounts, the process that created the monument raised important issues.
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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises
The former president holds a virtual town hall event in the midst of the pandemic and protests over race and police brutality.
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Obama endorses Biden as the best leader for ‘one of our darkest times’
The former president endorsed his vice president in a video on Tuesday.
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Leonard Pitts: Reporter misquotes Buttigieg and apologizes. Then all hell breaks loose
No controversy ends quietly on social media – instead, the conspiracy theorists just transfer their anger to someone else.
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Marc A. Thiessen: CNN tries to blame Trump for Obama administration’s leaks
The network’s Russian spy story leaves out key context about Obama aides’ actions before the spy’s exfiltration.
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Commentary: Trump now faces Obama’s dilemma in Afghanistan
The president doesn’t want to commit the troops necessary to win, but he also doesn’t want to surrender.