Barack Obama

“I don’t read many of my reviews. I have anxiety issues, so even reading a pleasant review fills me with existential dread.”

Homesteader Jacob Dunham, who was buried in 1865 in the Kempton Cemetery in Indiana, is Barack Obama’s great-great-great-great-grandfather. Jacob’s grandson, William Riley Dunham, built the home that stands today.

John Green doesn’t take his fame seriously, so why should we? Here, a slightly absurd chart of the author’s connections to the stars.

When Armando left, Maria worried about his journey. She worried about Liliana, who fell into fitful slumber every night, gasping for air between sobs. More than anything, Maria worried about the fragile ties holding her family together.

Pun at the expense of Reggie Miller.

She recently became the first American-born composer to win Ireland’s prestigious traditional-music prize, the Cumadoir TG4.

Via @GoIndyGo: “You know Indy is a world class city when we can handle the President of the United States and @DaveCoulier on the same day.”

Some suggestions for Barack Obama’s Indianapolis meal plans.

In a chamber where one party enjoys a thin majority, Indiana’s junior senator has garnered disproportionate influence as one of a handful of Democratic legislators from red and purple states who hold swing votes.

“Some say that through his books, John gives a voice to teenagers. I humbly disagree,” Shailene Woodley writes in TIME. “I think John hears the voices of teenagers.”

Barack Obama, Jon Hamm, Katy Perry, Martha Stewart, and more.

In addition to Lugar, Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom—founded by president John F. Kennedy—to Bill Clinton, Sally Ride, Oprah Winfrey, Loretta Lynn, Gloria Steinem, and more.

She currently presides over WISH-TV’s newscasts at 6, 10, and 11 p.m. and maintains that she may very well “reinvent” what retirement looks like.

As he often does during times of non-crisis, President Obama cracked some jokes while honoring the Hoosier favorites.

As a Nerdfighter, Hannah Lindgren did her best to keep her film on the group from becoming “a John Green fangirl piece.” In the photo accompanying this story, she had no such obligation.