Continuing an annual tradition that dates back to his presidency, Barack Obama shared his personal playlist of the best songs of the year, with tracks by Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Lizzo, SZA, Rosalia and more making the former president’s must-hear list of 2022. “I always enjoy sharing my end of year …
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This long, arduous year has almost come to an end, which means it’s time for former President Barack Obama to flex on everybody by sharing just how much cool shit he’s read and watched during retirement. The 61-year-old Obama (or the team of Gen Z/millennial aides that actually craft these …
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Michelle Obama visited the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday to talk about her new book, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, which released in Nov. During her interview with Kimmel, Obama shared stories of her first visit to Hawaii to visit Barack’s grandparents during Christmas and …
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Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker fails to see the humor in former president Barack Obama‘s jokes about Walker’s preference to be a werewolf rather than a vampire. Appearing on Fox News, the candidate claimed Obama did not “tell the whole story” when joking about comments Walker made in November where …
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Wanted: Black Men needed to be buffoons —think Hershel Walker —in exchange for being treated like a King of the Moment and a figurehead greeted by Republican cheers? If interested, please call the GOP. Perhaps it is too easy to reduce the small but increasing rush of Black male Republicans …
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NEW YORK, N.Y. — On a Friday morning in mid-November, Barack Obama sat in a classroom behind the soaring glass windows of Columbia University’s business school, almost knee-to-knee in a circle of chairs with three dozen young leaders from Africa. He was fielding questions on topics with no easy answers. …
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama sat down with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show on Thursday night. Obama talked about post-midterm results, shouted out young voters, and noted that it turns out America prefers “normal” after all. “I like to think that part of what happened in this election is …
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Former president Barack Obama traveled to Milwaukee on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 29, to campaign on behalf of another “Democrat with a funny name”: Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. It was an opportunity for Obama to take a swipe at former president Donald Trump, who dogged him throughout …
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A new report in the New York Times confirms that former president Donald Trump accumulated around two dozen boxes of documents in his White House residence prior to leaving office and failed to return them to the National Archives. These included letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. According to …
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In any other cultural moment, the satire embedded in Amazon Prime’s endlessly entertaining, blood-spattered superhero show The Boys might seem heavy-handed. But in 2022, its near-nihilist depiction of a deluded public rooting for an all-powerful class of elites who couldn’t care less about them almost feels like a documentary, albeit …
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