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Ben Rhodes

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An American Reckoning

What lessons can we take from Robert McNamara’s failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War?

by Ben Rhodes via New York Review of Books
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on February 26, 2026

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

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Barack Obama

The Obamanauts

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

by Corey Robin via Dissent on October 7, 2019

The White House surrounded by outlines of Iran, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, China, Syria, and Afghanistan.

How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe

U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?

by Jeff Stein, Federica Cocco via Washington Post on July 25, 2024

Postcard image of a painting of the Mayflower at sea.

Looking for an American Myth

The fevered hunt for basic symbols.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on February 6, 2022

President Obama in the Oval Office.

Pictures at a Restoration

On Pete Souza’s Obama.

by Blair McClendon via n+1 on August 10, 2021

‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden

Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his partner wrong.

by Alex Thompson via Politico Magazine on August 14, 2020

An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry

His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.

by David A. Graham, Parker Richards, Adrienne Green, Cullen Murphy via The Atlantic on May 13, 2019

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