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Most ViewedObama’s bad policies
’s presidency is widely judged as a mix of policy achievements and notable shortcomings: historians credit his policymaking but criticize his party-building and political strategy , while conservative...
Obama's 2008 financial crisis response
Barack Obama's response to the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on his presidential campaign
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Most ViewedWhen have U.S. former presidents historically broken norms to publicly criticize successors, and what were the consequences?
have on multiple occasions broken the informal norm of not publicly criticizing their successors — from to , , and to — and the consequences have ranged from political publicity and strained personal ...
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How have historians assessed the political strategies Obama used to protect his domestic agenda from 2009–2016?
Historians generally portray Barack Obama’s domestic strategy from 2009–2016 as pragmatic, administratively innovative, and politically constrained: he combined executive action and coalition-building...