"Trump’s lies will linger for years, poisoning the atmosphere like radioactive dust."

"Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative."

"Barack Obama was always better at explaining the meaning of democracy than at fighting its opponents."

"After Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, the burden of proof is on anyone who would make the case for military action as a…"

"It’s hard to build a narrative around actions not taken, disasters possibly averted, hard realities accommodated. The…"

"More than any modern President, Barack Obama had a keen sense of the limits of American power—and of his own."

"At the heart of Obama’s narrative was a belief that progress, in the larger scheme of things, was inevitable, and thi…"

"Progressives find it hard to imagine that there are others who in good faith don’t want the better world they’re offe…"

"In a sense, Americans expected a degree of fabrication from their leaders. After Jimmy Carter, in his 1976 campaign, …"

"Trump’s barrage of falsehoods—as many as 50 daily in the last fevered months of the 2020 campaign—complemented his un…"