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Barack Obama's first year

A look back at Barack Obama's first year in office
  • Journalism in the Obama age shows the real media bias

    Glenn Greenwald

    Glenn Greenwald: A new Rolling Stone interview with the president shows subservience to power, not partisan favor, is what drives the press corps

  • Al Sharpton

    Obama and the Messiah complexity

    Al Sharpton
    Al Sharpton: Obama's first year has shown that the United States is not a post-racial society. But it does give us renewed hope for equality
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama's dangerous second year

    Sasha Abramsky
  • President Barack Obama inauguration

    Timeline of Barack Obama's first year in office

  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama's first year: success or failure?

    Take two: A Republican and a Democrat debate the peaks and troughs of Obama's presidency a year after he took office

  • Martin Luther King

    King's dream meets Obama's reality

    Lola Adesioye

    Lola Adesioye: One year in office for a black president was never going to be long enough to cool America's heated battles over race

  • Gary Younge

    If you're disillusioned with Obama, you don't understand how he won

    Gary Younge
  • One year on, Obama must look to the example set by Bill Clinton

    Michael Crowley
  • COP15 US President Barack Obama

    'Even Charles Manson could beat him now'

    One year after his election, Barack Obama's approval rating is lower at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. So why has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly?

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