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Matthew C. Whitaker: Change Blossoming in the "Age of Obama"

Matthew C. Whitaker is an ASU Foundation professor of history and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Arizona State University.Time magazine recently announced the...

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Congress Needs to Lead on the Budget, Not the President

Speaker John Boehner in front of the U.S. Capitol in late January. Credit: Flickr/SpeakerBoehner.In the political posturing and finger-pointing taking place regarding the “sequester,” the first victim...

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A. Scott Berg: Wilson to Obama: March Forth!

A. Scott Berg is a biographer and the author of the forthcoming book “Wilson.”“THERE has been a change of government,” declared Woodrow Wilson in his first sentence as president of the United States,...

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Julian Zelizer: Health Care Will Be an Obama Legacy

Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America."(CNN) -- The politics of health care is changing fast....

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When It Comes to Transparency, Obama's Channelling His Inner Nixon

Cross-posted from Balkinization.The Boston Globe reported that the president withheld a widely sought white paper “fearing it would only intensify congressional criticism, government sources say.”*This...

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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Will Bell America?

NRO contributorVictor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His The Savior Generals will appear in the spring from Bloomsbury Books.Remember the medieval fable about the mice that...

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Obama visits Yad Vashem

JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama on Friday pledged that with the “survival” of Israel, “the Holocaust will never happen again.”“Here on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear,”...

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Obama to Name New National Monuments

President Obama, who has been criticized for favoring oil and gas development over land conservation in his first term, on Monday will designate five new national monuments, according to officials...

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Mary L. Dudziak: Obama’s Nixonian Precedent

Mary L. Dudziak, a professor of law and director of the Project on War and Security in Law, Culture and Society at Emory University, is the author of “War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its...

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The President, in Israel, Giveth and Taketh Away

Author:  Ira Chernus Barack Obama and John Kerry at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Credit: U.S. State Department.The real Barack Obama was clearly on display in his quick trip to Israel and...

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Ron Radosh: Why Conservatives Should be Critical of Obama’s Middle Eastern...

Ron Radosh is a PJ Media columnist and Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute.I, along with other supporters of Israel, have for the past few years rightfully been critical of President Obama and his...

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Ross Douthat: The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War

Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times.WHEN prominent people in Washington spend an anniversary apologizing for being catastrophically, unforgivably wrong about a decade-old decision, you...

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Republicans critical of Obama national monuments bill amid sequester cuts

Congressional Republicans have condemned Barack Obama for designating five new national monuments at a time when sequester funding cuts are hitting existing national parks and landmarks.Doc Hastings,...

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President Barack Obama: The First Draft of History

The following is excerpted from The American President by Kathryn Moore, published by Barnes & Noble Books in 2013 (678 pages, $19.95).  It covers the life of Barack H. Obama and his presidency...

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Obama's Middle East Tightrope

Image viaShutterstock.Originally posted on TomDispatch.comAuthor:  Ira Chernus Bio: 4-1-13Ira Chernus is a TomDispatch regular and professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at...

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Historian Robert Caro: Today's Conservative Media "Quite Horrible" And Venomous

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert Caro criticized conservative media coverage of President Obama during an appearance in New York City, describing it as "something quite horrible" and...

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Doug Bandow: Obama Didn't Lose Iraq

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and the author of several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global...

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Why the Bush Library won't make history

Will history judge George W. Bush more kindly than his contemporaries have?The man himself seems fairly indifferent."I don't think he really cares much at all, to be honest with you," says Kevin...

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Liberals: Stop Making Excuses for Obama

Credit: Obama for America.Cross-posted from Balkanization.Sandy Levinson took Maureen Dowd to task for her column last week, “No Bully in the Pulpit,” which criticized President Obama for failing to...

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Over 100 Holocaust scholars urge Obama: Cancel invite to Sudan delegation

Washington, D.C. - One hundred and seven leading Holocaust and genocide scholars from around the world have sent a letter of protest to President Obama, urging him to cancel a planned visit to the...

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