The Latest Breaking News from Barack Obama

AM Homes isn’t anti-American. She just writes what she sees

As she releases her first novel in more than a decade, the Women’s Prize winner talks to Nick Duerden about predicting political turmoil in America, why she writes ‘provocative’ novels, and recovering from the Trump presidency

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2022

African Americans converge on Martha's Vineyard each summer in search of Black joy

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — It was early in August when my husband and I had just arrived on Martha's Vineyard and ventured out by bicycle to try to get a feel for the island.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Sep 5, 2022

The Loop: Kyrgios and Tomljanović reach US Open quarterfinals, Canadian police search for two men over deadly stabbings, and Brendan Fraser's standing ovation

Get up to speed on today's headlines with The Loop.

ABC News · Sep 5, 2022

America's secrets: Trump's unprecedented disregard of norms

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022

Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

WEKU · Sep 4, 2022

Glenn Greenwald on the Deep State, Capitalism, and Identity Politics

"One of the things that the left and right have in common is an awareness that our government has essentially been co-opted by corporate power," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.

Reason · Sep 4, 2022

Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series

Barack Obama has an Emmy Award to go with his two Grammys

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022

LOCALIZE IT: ‘Dreamers' increasingly ease into middle age

“Dreamers,” long a symbol of immigrant youth, are increasingly easing into middle age as eligibility requirements have been frozen since 2012, when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was introduced.

The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2022

No longer young, 'dreamers' uneasily watch a legal challenge

‘Dreamers,' long a symbol of immigrant youth, are increasingly easing into middle age as eligibility requirements have been frozen since 2012, when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was introduced

The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2022

Commentary: Sarah Palin lost her bid for Congress. But we may not have seen the last of her yet

When Fox News canceled Sarah Palin’s contributor contract in 2013, I wrote that it was “the end of an era.”

Los Angeles Times · Sep 3, 2022