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"I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression", the former first lady said on "The Michelle Obama Podcast". "Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting." Obama, 56, said that she had issues with her daily workout and sleep, "waking up in the middle of the night" because of anxiety, and has been experiencing a heaviness that she has never felt in her life. … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama Says She Has ‘Low-Grade Depression’, Partly Because of Trump Administration

Obama said she has been going through "those emotional highs and lows that I think everybody feels, where you just don't feel yourself...These are not, they are not fulfilling times, spiritually," she said. "I know that I am dealing with some form of low-grade depression. Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting." … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama says she is suffering from “low-grade depression”

On a narrower time horizon, Mr. >Obama’s visit to Hiroshima can be viewed against the backdrop of his landmark address in Prague in 2009, when he laid bare his disarmament agenda. He declared that as the only country to have deployed the nuclear weapon, the U.S. had a moral responsibility to act. Those remarks earned Mr. Obama plaudits from the global peace movements, whereas hawks at home attacked him as an apologist President. But the pragmatist in Mr. Obama minced no words in Prague, in saying that as long as nuclear weapons were around, the U.S. would maintain a credible deterrent, even while striving for a reduction in the arsenals of Washington and Moscow. More recently, he made it clear that the point of the visit to Hiroshima was not to revisit Harry Truman’s decision. Therein lurks a hard-nosed, statesman-like approach to rid the world of nuclear weapons. In his two terms in the White House, Mr. Obama has made a modest beginning. Understanding his realism is … [Read more...] about Mr. Obama at Hiroshima

Though abstaining from the civil dissidence in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and few other West Asian countries famously referred as the Arab Spring, the United States supported the Libyan revolution that overthrew Muammar Qadhafi’s regime in 2011. Along with the NATO, the U.S. conducted air strikes and fought on the sides of the National Liberation Army against Qadhafi. The civil war ended with the killing of Qadhafi on October 20, 2011. But politics in Libya turned murkier with militias taking over many parts of the country and two rival parliaments functioning. “Probably failing to plan for, the day after, what I think was the right thing to do, in intervening in Libya,” >Mr. Obama would tell Fox News in 2016 on went wrong in Libya. … [Read more...] about War and peace in the times of Obama

"I'd be remiss to say part of this depression is also a result of what we're seeing in terms of the protests, the continued racial unrest that has plagued this country since its birth," she said. "I have to say that waking up to the news, waking up to how this administration has or has not responded, waking up to another story of a Black man or a Black person being dehumanized or hurt is a weight that I haven't felt in my life in a while." … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama says she has “low-grade depression”