The prospect of Hillary Clinton running for US president in 2016 is delicious to many Democrats. Which isn’t to say it’s the best idea for a post-Barack Obama era.
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Obama’s war on tiny planes
What kind of ally deprives our nation’s hacks of caffeine and our skies of tiny planes?
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Why a few ‘fireside chats’ could help us like the PM
The answer to Julia Gillard’s woes could be right on the tip of her tongue, writes Dan Gaffney. If a weekly radio address works for the US president, it could work on the PM’s popularity.
READ MOREThe net worth of every US President compared
The Atlantic has calculated the net worth of every US president in today’s dollars, shedding an interesting perspective on Obama’s wealth: he’s positively poor compared to the likes of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, JFK and Lyndon Johnson.
READ MOREHow fake presidents would solve real problems
How would the Harrison Ford president of Air Force One deal with financial regulation? Would Jed Bartlett support gay marriage? And would any Hollywood president tackle climate change?
READ MOREA history of US Presidential bookworms
Barack Obama is well known as a “reader” — but he’s hardly the first US President to bury his nose in a book: Nixon loved Tolstoy, Reagen studied the ideas of Milton Friedman, and Clinton liked the “cheap thrill” of a mystery novel.
READ MORELarry Flynt’s History of Presidential Sex
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is writing a book about the history of sex in the White House, and Gawker has the whole 54-page proposal. “How did this president from Pennsylvania become so proslavery? In two words: Gay Love.”
READ MOREPHOTO GALLERY: How we lie to our children about former presidents
Future US presidents are all kind, hard working students, right? Slate compares what children’s books say about past US presidents to the adult biographies. Never let the truth get in the way of an illustrated story.
READ MOREPHOTO GALLERY: How presidents age disgracefully
Apparently having the weight of the world on your shoulders heavily increases your chances of grey hair and a deeply furrowed brow. See how quickly US presidents age in office. It’s not pretty.
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