Money, politics and Justice Anthony Kennedy: Revisiting Citizens United
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is one of retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s most maligned rulings. Many condemn the opinion for treating corporations as people, money as speech, and elections as commodities to be sold to the highest bidder. President Barack Obama lambasted Citizens United in a State of the Union address. During her 2016 presidential campaign, […]
Obama Extols Pluralism at Forum for Overseas Indonesians
Former U.S. president Barack Obama has returned to Jakarta, the Indonesian city that he called home for part of his childhood, to deliver the keynote speech at the fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora. Obama drew parallels between the two “diverse, multiethnic nations” of the United States and Indonesia, and called on young people to fight […]
Obama Returning To Politics
Barack Obama made history by reportedly signing the biggest book deal for a former president Tuesday, but it was the future that was on his mind, according to one of his good friends. After barely more than a month into being out of professional politics, Obama was set to make a triumphant return to lead […]
Obama Condemns ‘Repeal and Replace’
Repealing Obamacare without a replacement is “reckless” and “irresponsible,” and would leave the country “with more uninsured and uncompensated care than when we started,” writes former President Barack Obama. In the commentary published Jan. 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine, one week after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Obama makes good on the […]