Can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

Seeing Hamilton with Barack Obama.

How Black America talks to the White House.

Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.

Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

“In fact, in private conversations, Obama rarely mentions Trump at all. Those who’ve visited the office he’s leased from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington’s West End say he’s eager to talk for hours about the world’s ills. When informed about the latest presidential tweetstorms aimed at him, he chuckles and changes the subject. One friend of Obama’s recalled that after a 45-minute meeting that avoided the subject of Trump entirely, the pair ducked into an aide’s office and saw on television that the president was claiming to have been absolved in the Russia inquiry. Obama’s eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.”

“The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.”

Three years ago, the Republican-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration. This is the story of what went wrong.

On what happened in 2016 and what should happen next.

The White House after Election Day.

A presidential historian interviews a president focused on history.

In the basement of the White House, in an office with no windows, an MFA grad named Ben Rhodes is telling the story of America’s foreign policy.

How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.

A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.

Confessions of a presidential campaign reporter.

“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

On Ferguson, Cosby, and what ‘racial progress’ really means.

An inside look at the Democratic infighting and Republican gameplan (“Obama, Obama, Obama”) that led to the midterm landslide.

On the president’s campaign to crack down on campus rape.

How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.

Barack Obama on Africa, Putin and the gap between what CEOs tell him over lunch and what they tell their lobbyists.

How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.

Barack Obama wanted to endorse gay marriage on his own timetable. Joe Biden had other plans.