Vinson Cunningham’s constant application of a critical eye in his work for The New Yorker must have helped in composing his first novel, “Great Expectations.”
Barack Obama
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Dear Barack and Bruce: I’m a fan. But your new podcast is cringeworthy.
The new podcast by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama seemed like it would be a compelling listening experience…but instead “Renegades” is often a squirmy mess.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Barack Obama’s boundless optimism for a brighter future
in Barack Obama’s new memoir, readers get to know a host of colorful characters who played a role in the campaign for the presidency and Obama’s first term in office.
Posted inFaith, News
Five faith facts about former President Barack Obama’s new book: ‘A Promised Land’
Here are five faith facts about Obama from his highly anticipated book released Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Michelle Obama in her own words
Michelle Obama’s autobiography is a powerful demonstration of what a strong woman can make of a “reluctantly” public life.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
With ‘strongman politics’ on the rise, Obama affirms Mandela’s democratic vision
In Johannesburg, Obama gave what some commentators consider his most important speech since he vacated the Oval Office.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How to survive Trump: End the cult of the presidency
The presidency has become a cult to which we are expected to constantly direct our attention; the result is a disenchantment with democracy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Can we overcome racism? Ta-Nehisi Coates grapples with white backlash to the first black president
‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ is a sort of “I told you so,” though Coates takes little pleasure in having to say it.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Sister Carol Keehan: G.O.P. health care plan ‘cannot be fixed’
Congress is asking the nation to make “immoral choices,” said Sister Keehan, the president of the Catholic Health Association.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Barack Obama’s first inauguration revisited
The truth or foolishness of Obama’s hopeful vision of our country rests in the choices we will make.