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• Hendrik Hertzberg: The speeches of Obama and Netanyahoo.

A week ago Monday, Barack Obama hied himself to the land—well, a land—of his forefathers. Like Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton before him, President Obama deemed it politic to drop in on his ancestral village on the auld sod of Ireland. In tiny Moneygall, surrounded . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s fighting words.

President Obama’s first State of the Union address came at the end of the most harrowing nine days of his young Administration. On January 19th, a Republican won the Massachusetts seat that had been held for nearly half a century by Edward M. Kennedy, thereby depriving the Senate . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama’s nuclear spring.

Now then, Dmitri. You know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dmitri. The hydrogen bomb. —President Merkin Muffley to Premier Dmitri Kissov, 1964. Dmitri, we agreed.—President Barack Obama to President Dmitri Medvedev, 2010. “Dr . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: What were the voters thinking?

Barack Obama had the mot juste last Wednesday for what had just befallen him and his party: a “shellacking.” The President’s choice of word was one syllable (and one “g”) longer than his predecessor’s summary after a parallel midterm debacle. But, then . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The G.O.P.’s best hopes in the 2012 Presidential election.

It was a chilly winter for Barack Obama, politically speaking. For six months, he and his party shivered under the avalanche that had buried them in November’s midterm election while Republicans disported themselves on the partisan ski slopes, pausing only to throw snowballs, some of them dirty, and . . ....

• Obama lines up with copyright owners

As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

The Presidential candidacy as joke is a perennial sideshow along the raucous midway of the American political carnival. Sometimes the candidate—Will Rogers (1928), Gracie Allen (1940), Pat Paulsen (1968 through 1996), Stephen Colbert (2008)—is a fully qualified professional humorist. Sometimes he, or it, is an animal . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Trash talk from the 2008 campaign.

8220;Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (Harper; $27.99), has come along just in time. The nation’s political and political-commenting classes, whose nervous systems atrophy without a reliable supply of . . ....

• Obama Defends Health Care Law, Offers Fixes

President Barack Obama defended the health reform law against Republican attacks in his State of the Union address Tuesday, offering to tweak the law but refusing efforts to gut it....

• Dorothy Wickenden: Barack Obama, Republicans, and the campaign for the middle class.

At a rally in Holland, Ohio, in the last days of the 2008 Presidential campaign, a plainspoken plumber’s assistant named Joe Wurzelbacher buttonholed Barack Obama. He intended to buy a plumbing company, he said, that would earn about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and he . . ....

• Ryan Lizza: The Obama memos: How Washington remade the President.

On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, the Washington Post columnist, who had assembled a number of right-leaning journalists to meet the President-elect. Accepting such an invitation was a gesture on Obama&#8217 . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: What lies ahead for Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

If politics is show business for ugly people (which, by the way, it’s not, not this time, not the ugly-people part anyway, not with a cast of characters as glossy as Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin’s ghost, and Barack Obama), is Occupy . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Ron Suskind’s “Confidence Men” and Barack Obama’s White House.

If the United States is one big book club, and sometimes it feels that way, then the White House must have been hoping that this would be the week when everyone was talking about “The Rogue,” Joe McGinniss’s much ballyhooed takedown of his erstwhile Alaska neighbor . . ....

• George Packer: Obama in Oslo.

Thorbjørn Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in presenting the Peace Prize to Barack Obama last week, quoted the previous African-American recipient, Martin Luther King, Jr., and added, “Mr. President, we are happy to see that through your presence here so much of Dr . . ....

• Books: “The Promise.”

This chronicle of the first year of the Obama Presidency argues that Obama took charge well before he was elected, when the economy imploded, in September, 2008. Operating in crisis mode since then, he has brought to the White House a “Zen temperament,” a strategically chosen Cabinet, and . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Nobel Surprise

If President Obama really had to get a gift postmarked Scandinavia this month, he would probably, on the whole, have preferred the Olympics. At least at the Olympics the judges wait till after the race to give you the gold medal. They don’t force it on you while . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Lies

After the tea-partying, town-meeting-disrupting, pistol-packing mensis horribilis of August, more than a few commentators complained, as one of them put it, that “Obama should have seen it coming.” No one doubted that the current attempt to overhaul America’s uniquely wasteful and unjust . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Obama and the battle of the amendments.

There is the current crop of Ohio Republicans, and then there are those who art in Heaven. A specimen of the former, ultimate destination unknown, is Speaker of the House John Boehner, a perpetrator (and, arguably, a victim) of the terrifying debt-limit arson that his party, on fire with . . ....

• Elizabeth Kolbert: President Obama, gas prices, and global warming.

Last week, Mitt Romney, who, it now seems, is going to become the Republican nominee whether anybody likes it or not, called on President Barack Obama to fire three of his Cabinet members: the Energy Secretary, Steven Chu; the Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar; and the head of the Environmental Protection . . ....

• Nick Paumgarten: Kicking off the America Bowl.

A year ago, during the Inauguration of Barack Obama, Don Steinberg, a forty-eight-year-old freelance sportswriter in Philadelphia, wondered why Obama, as the forty-fourth President, hadn’t summoned up, as a guest or a symbol, the former home-run champion Hank Aaron, who during his playing . . ....

• James Surowiecki: Obama, jobs, and the G.O.P.

There is no truer truism in American politics than James Carville’s catchphrase from the 1992 election “It’s the economy, stupid.” When people discuss Barack Obama’s current approval rating, which is at its lowest level ever, they may invoke his supposed lack of . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a “word cloud,” graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding Web site was none other than www.whitehouse.gov, where, as . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Behind Obama’s clean-energy strategy.

The day after President Obama delivered his second State of the Union address last week, dozens of Web sites turned it into a “word cloud,” graphically showing the relative frequency with which particular words appeared. One such cloud-seeding Web site was none other than www.whitehouse.gov, where, as . . ....

• Jane Mayer: Walter Mondale on how Obama is like Carter.

For most people, it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be Barack Obama as his Administration’s high hopes are dashed by daily waves of bad news. But for Walter Mondale, who spent four years as Jimmy Carter’s Vice-President, the experience . . ....

• If President Obama Were My Patient – A Naturopathic Analysis of President Obama’s Health Report

As the Health Care reform debate rages on between President Obama and congress, how is President Obama's own personal health? Recently President Obama's physician released the details of President Obama's most recent physical, over a year into his presidency, and 18 months after his last check-up. President Obama's physician reported that he was in excellent health. This article takes another...

• Ryan Lizza: How the Arab Spring remade Obama’s foreign policy.

Barack Obama came to Washington just six years ago, having spent his professional life as a part-time lawyer, part-time law professor, and part-time state legislator in Illinois. As an undergraduate, he took courses in history and international relations, but neither his academic life nor his work in . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: The Afghanistan strategy.

There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom—the reigning cliché—happens to be true. President Obama did not pretend otherwise in his address at West Point last . . ....

• Hendrik Hertzberg: Why voters will blame Obama.

Franklin Roosevelt was a lucky man and, in 1932, a lucky candidate. Start with the name—or, as today’s political marketers would say, the brand. F.D.R.’s name paired that of the twinkly, kindly philosopher of the American Revolution—the Uncle of His Country&#8212 . . ....