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Barack Obama

Barack Obama is a Democrat who served as the 44th president of the United States, from 2009 to 2017.

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640 linked stories in all years we hold

Via Wikimedia Commons (President Barack Obama)

The earliest story we hold is from Oct 1, 2021.

Stories involving Barack Obama4 named stories in 2024

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Week of Dec 30, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025: 25 left, 38 center, 33 right, 49% of the sources that published that week · 196 articles

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Jan 15, 2024 - Jan 21, 2024873388%
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Apr 1, 2024 - Apr 7, 202437351821234%
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Apr 22, 2024 - Apr 28, 2024102064716%
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May 6, 2024 - May 12, 202422152%
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May 27, 2024 - Jun 2, 20241526710119%
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Jun 17, 2024 - Jun 23, 20241620179524%
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Dec 23, 2024 - Dec 29, 202418231910531%
Dec 30, 2024 - Jan 5, 202525383319649%

Stories before June 28, 2026 come from archived pages, so who covered them is limited to the outlets we recovered for that period.

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137 left · 143 center · 117 right: 397 sources on the spectrum, across 640 linked stories.

Everything else68 updates in 2024 not part of any story, newest first

Updates about Barack Obama that are not part of any story yet

  1. Oct 22Bruce Springsteen will hold a concert with Barack Obama in Philly next week to support VP Kamala Harris7 articles · 7 sources
    1 left, 4 center, 1 right
  2. Oct 8– 9Woodward book reveals Trump’s calls with Putin and Biden’s private remarks on Obama and Netanyahu17 articles · 15 sources
    3 left, 8 center, 3 right
  3. Aug 21Michelle Obama: Who’s going to tell Trump the presidency is a ‘Black job?’13 articles · 12 sources
    6 left, 3 center, 1 right
  4. Aug 21– 22Watch the Obama joke everyone is talking about from the DNC5 articles · 5 sources
    3 left, 1 center, 1 right
  5. Aug 20Obama made his DNC debut 20 years ago. He's returning to make the case for Kamala Harris12 articles · 11 sources
    3 left, 6 center, 2 right
  6. Jul 25– 262024 Election Latest: Harris urges people to vote as campaign heats up, Trump meets with Netanyahu - The Daily Reporter10 articles · 9 sources
    4 left, 2 center, 3 right
  7. Jul 25– 26Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support109 articles · 61 sources
    15 left, 25 center, 14 right
  8. Jun 25Obama’s half-sister teargassed live on air while protesting in Kenya8 articles · 7 sources
    3 left, 3 center, 1 right
  9. Jun 16– 18Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off stage by Obama at mega-bucks LA fundraiser8 articles · 8 sources
    3 left, 0 center, 5 right
  10. Jun 15– 16Clooney and Roberts help Biden raise $30 million-plus at a star-studded Hollywood gala29 articles · 23 sources
    9 left, 6 center, 5 right

Stories that name Barack Obama

  1. Dec 29– 30Jimmy Carter's death sparks tributes, remembrances19 articles · 11 sources
    0 left, 4 center, 2 right
  2. Dec 29– 30Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, has died at 100278 articles · 136 sources
    37 left, 48 center, 41 right
  3. Dec 12– 13Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency100 articles · 70 sources
    19 left, 31 center, 17 right
  4. Dec 4– 5Taylor Swift 'Eras' tie-in book is a smash, selling more than 800,000 copies in first week19 articles · 12 sources
    1 left, 4 center, 3 right
  5. Dec 1– 2Before exiting, Biden heads to Africa to highlight his own counter to China. Will Trump take it up?6 articles · 6 sources
    3 left, 2 center, 1 right
  6. Nov 12– 16Court temporarily limits scope of ruling that Louisiana's Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional40 articles · 34 sources
    7 left, 16 center, 9 right
  7. Nov 9– 13Biden to host Trump at White House in symbolic peaceful transfer of power77 articles · 39 sources
    7 left, 19 center, 8 right
  8. Oct 23– 25Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler's53 articles · 33 sources
    12 left, 16 center, 3 right
  9. Oct 14– 15Lilly Ledbetter, whose fight for equal pay led to the 2009 Fair Pay Act, dies at 8621 articles · 17 sources
    5 left, 9 center, 2 right
  10. Oct 11– 17Kamala Harris Remodels 'Agenda for Black Men' to Target Everyone19 articles · 16 sources
    2 left, 4 center, 7 right