Ryan Lizza from The New Yorker provides a unique and fascinating view of how decisions have been made inside the Obama presidency. This is essential reading for all those liberals who think Obama hasn’t done enough and for those conservatives who think he’s too radical. Lizza had access to hundreds of memoranda written inside the White House that provide insight on how Obama has adjusted his policies to meet political realities. The short version: It’s not as easy to get things done as you’d think, even less so when the opposition party is determined to stop you at every turn. Obama’s goal of changing Washington, D.C.’s toxic partisan atmosphere seems farther away than ever, but he has still had many significant accomplishments.