Obama finally earned his Nobel Peace Prize

With the Iran deal, Obama is well on his way to one hell of a lame-duck presidency

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By all rights, President Obama should be having a lousy 2015. After losing the Senate to Republicans in the 2014 midterms, the political punditry was writing off the remainder of Obama's second term as a wash: At best, he would finally get to put some mileage on that veto pen.

About a month later, Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced an unexpected thawing of U.S.-Cuban relations, ending more than 50 years of overt and covert animosity between the U.S. and its small communist neighbor. And on Tuesday, Obama's negotiators reached a landmark agreement to throttle Iran's capacity to build a nuclear weapon for at least 15 years. Since November, Obama has put the U.S. on speaking terms with two of its biggest global foes of the modern era.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.