**Did Obama Endorse Mamdani? The Meme That’s Got the Internet Doing a Double-Take** Alright, folks, buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the latest internet rabbit hole: the viral sensation that’s had everyone from your aunt in Arizona to your cousin in Cape Town asking, “Did Obama really endorse Mamdani?” Spoiler alert: it’s not as straightforward…
Barack Obama: The Last Man Who Made the World Clap Before Checking Its Wallet By Dave’s Locker, International Desk PARIS—Somewhere between the Champs-Élysées and a Nairobi traffic jam, Barack Hussein Obama still strolls in the collective imagination like a well-tailored ghost of what might have been. Eight years after he left the Oval Office, the…
From Jakarta to Johannesburg, the name “Obama” still functions as international shorthand for a very specific cocktail of audacity, eloquence, and the faint smell of drone exhaust. When Barack Hussein Obama II left the White House in January 2017, the global applause was thunderous—partly because it meant the planet had survived eight years of a…
