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Obama administration

October 2018

  • Three generations of Havasupai members demonstrate against uranium extraction outside the Canyon Mine site

    Grand Canyon uranium mining ban upheld as supreme court declines to hear challenge

    Court says extraction ban is among cases it refuses to review, in victory for environmental groups and Native American communities

September 2018

  • ‘We, the people, are the root and tree of American democracy. We have no king, and no individual – not even a president – can usurp that.’

    Guardian US teacher takeover
    How weak schools serve Trump's agenda

    Arne Duncan
  • US Secretary of State John Kerry attends an interfaith Iftar reception to mark World Refugee Day at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Virginia on June 20, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / YURI GRIPASYURI GRIPAS/AFP/Getty Images

    Every Day is Extra review: John Kerry on Vietnam, Syria, Paris, Iran … and Trump

July 2018

  • Jon Favreau: ‘Donald Trump has energised the base of the Democratic party’

    Saturday interview
    Jon Favreau of Pod Save America: ‘We’re not running for office. So we just speak our mind’

    Jon Favreau wrote some of the greatest speeches of the Obama presidency. Today, with a runaway political podcast, he says he is grateful that Trump has inspired a grassroots Democratic revival

June 2018

  • U.S. President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in New York<br>The Final Year - film still U.S. President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (not pictured) in New York September 25, 2014. With Obama from left are Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and Secretary of State John Kerry. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR47OI6

    The World as It Is review: Ben Rhodes' Obama legacy defence has weak spots

    The former White House aide has written a memoir and a justification which is compelling but too much on Obama’s side

May 2018

  • FILES-US-IRAN-NUCLEAR-DIPLOMACY-OBAMA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 5, 2015, US President Barack Obama speaks at American University in Washington, DC, August 5, 2015, about the nuclear deal reached with Iran. Former US president Barack Obama made a rare public criticism of his successor on May 8, 2018, describing Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal as “misguided” and a “serious mistake.” / AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSONJIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

    Obama condemns 'misguided' violation of Iran deal as Republicans cheer move

    Former president releases statement warning of damage to ‘America’s credibility’ as reaction is split along party lines
  • Members of the anti-war group Code Pink demonstrate in front of the White House

    Trump's decision on Iran is not as black and white as it seems

    Even if US president removes sanctions waiver, nuclear deal could continue on life support
  • FILE PHOTO - Donald Trump Is Sworn In As 45th President Of The United States<br>FILE PHOTO - President-elect Donald Trump, left, and President Barack Obama arrive for Trump’s inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S. January 20, 2017. REUTERS/J. Scott Applewhite/Pool/File Photo

    Israel intel firm denies it was hired by Trump aides to discredit Obama officials

    Black Cube, a company made up of former Israeli spies, says it had ‘nothing to do’ with ‘dirty ops’ campaign

April 2018

  • Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school stand together on stage with other young victims of gun violence at the conclusion of the March for Our Lives rally in Washington.

    Break the cycle
    'Shameful day in Washington': five years after gun reform failed, is change coming?

    After Sandy Hook, gun reform collapsed in Congress. Today, the momentum is with young activists: ‘These kids are the ones we’ve been waiting for’

February 2018

  • Obama, flanked by Moniz and Christie, delivers remarks as he joins a meeting of the leaders of CARICOM, the Caribbean Community nations, at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica<br>U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (L) and Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie (R), delivers remarks as he joins a meeting of the leaders of CARICOM, the Caribbean Community nations, at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica April 9, 2015. Obama will also hold a town hall meeting with young leaders in Jamaica before continuing on to Panama for the Summit of the Americas. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

    Nuclear risk at its highest since Cuban missile crisis, says ex-energy secretary

    Nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz says world has been lucky to avoid accidental weapon launch – and risk is growing

January 2018

  • The Obama administration’s foreign policy team, left to right, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama

    The Final Year review – Obama’s legacy pitch

  • Samantha Power.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Samantha Power: ‘Being at the UN is like trying to get heard at an Irish dinner table’

December 2017

  • Messengers from brokerage houses seem unconcerned as they cr<br>UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 24: Messengers from brokerage houses seem unconcerned as they crowd around a hard-to-obtain newspaper after the first Wall Street stock market crash on October 24, 1929. (Photo by Eddie Jackson/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

    Bit by bit, Trump is taking apart the New Deal’s glorious legacy

    Heather Cox Richardson
    With huge tax cuts projected to create a $1.5tn deficit, cuts to social security and Medicare will surely follow

November 2017

  • Richard Cordray testifies about unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing

    Trump: Obama consumer agency with two acting directors is 'a total disaster'

    CFPB director Richard Cordray resigns and elevates Leandra English, leading to political chaos after Trump names CFPB critic Mick Mulvaney for same role

October 2017

  • The investigations were revealed in interviews with Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and a former campaign official.

    Republican-led House committees to investigate Clinton's emails again

  • Barbara Ellen

    Women’s rights are on the retreat yet again. Why?

    Barbara Ellen

September 2017

  • Asylum seekers in Australian-run detention on Nauru.

    First Nauru refugees leave for US resettlement

  • Donald Trump shakes hands with Theresa May at the UN general assembly

    'Trump’s secret Yemen war': UK role in US counter-terrorism causes unease

July 2017

  • Cuban migrants

    'They threw us into the street': Cubans tell of struggles to enter US

    Since Obama ended the ‘wet-foot, dry-foot’ preferential treatment, 1,000 Cuban migrants have gathered in Nuevo Laredo to try to gain US citizenship

June 2017

  • Barack Obama and family in Indonesia

    Obama in Indonesia: wife, kids and 650 soldiers

    Barack Obama, who lived in Indonesia as a child, ends family trip in historic city where his mother researched her PhD
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