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Matt Bai

The World

President Obama’s place in history

Global Politics

President Obama has been compared to several great American leaders. But in a forthcoming piece in The New York Times Magazine, writer Matt Bai argues that the danger of looking back at history for parallels is that you fail to look forward.

The World

Post-Obama black politics: a private race debate enters the public sphere

Arts, Culture & Media
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