The Latest Breaking News from Barack Obama

These photographs, from scandalous to moving, from funny to weird, are beautiful reminders of the past that's overshadowed by the present.

Connecticut Rep. Chris Murphy rejected claims by President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that Iran was days away from developing a "deliverable nuclear weapon."

"I would have felt for him."

The strikes violate both the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act. Whether they are good policy is a more difficult question. This could turn out to be a rare instance where one of Trump's illegal actions has beneficial results.

For nearly a half-century the United States has squabbled with Iran's Islamic republic but the conflict has largely been left in the shadows, with US policymakers believing, often reluctantly, that diplomacy was preferable.

In an apparent dig at her ex-US president partner, Michelle Obama has declared she is “so glad” she never had a son as she feared he would have turned out like her husband,

David Litt’s new book It’s Only Drowning centres on an improbable friendship and how shared experience provides a neutral ground for connection

"I would love an intellectual ecosystem in economics that was more ideologically balanced than what we have now," the Harvard professor tells Reason.

Trump said he plans to decide whether the U.S. will attack Iran within the next two weeks

The US president, Donald Trump, is weighing up whether to join Israel in attacking Iran. The fact he is even contemplating such a move is, in my opinion, a direct consequence of his 2018 decision to tear up the agreement negotiated during Barack Obama’s presidency that limited Iran’s nuclear capabilities…

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