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  • Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency

    Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency The New Yorker 2016-11-28 David Remnick, Editor Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future. The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been…

  • Charleston and the Age of Obama

    Charleston and the Age of Obama The New Yorker 2015-06-19 David Remnick, Editor Between 1882 and 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, three thousand four hundred and forty-six black men, women, and children were lynched in this country—a practice so vicious and frequent that Mark Twain was moved, in 1901, to write…

  • The Joshua Generation

    The Joshua Generation The New Yorker 2008-11-17 David Remnick, Editor Race and the campaign of Barack Obama. Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on…

  • There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President…

    “There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President,” Obama said. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because…

  • Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama.

    Going the Distance: On and off the road with Barack Obama. The New Yorker 2014-01-27 David Remnick, Editor Obama’s Presidency is on the clock. Hard as it has been to pass legislation, the coming year is a marker, the final interval before the fight for succession becomes politically all-consuming. On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving,…