Opinion | The Obama Presidential Center is unlike anything we've ever seen ^32.9%

MS NOW - By Michele Norris - 6/19/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 20.3% - Negativity Bias 15% - Hasty Generalization 14.5%

Few presidents have walked a more improbable path to the American presidency than Barack Obama. So it’s fitting that, much like the president it’s named for, nothing about the Obama Presidential Center is traditional. Not its Juneteenth opening. Not its location on the South Side of Chicago. Not its design, not its sprawling campus that... more