Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

The Republicans' response to Obama confused a lot of people. I really think there's been a measure of clarity at the end, with Trump's election, that was not present during the Obama presidency.

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.