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by Mary C. Curtis onOctober 3, 2011
The Root explores where Obama, race and politics meet with Charlotte's young black mayor, Anthony Foxx.
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by Lauren Williams onJanuary 6, 2011
The number of people who identify as Democrats is at its lowest in 22 years.
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by Cord Jefferson onNovember 17, 2010
Nancy Pelosi this afternoon won a secret vote in the Democratic House Caucus to become the next House minority leader.
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by Lawrence Bobo onNovember 3, 2010
There are good reasons to be hopeful after the midterm elections. Just look at what happened in 1994.
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August 16, 2010
It’s a week of campaign stops for Barack.
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July 14, 2010
She could become the first woman elected to Congress from Alabama.
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June 28, 2010
The nation's longest-serving member of Congress and former Klansman dies at 92.
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June 11, 2010
I can’t help but find all this handwringing about Greene’s win on Tuesday to be slightly insidious, tainted by the ugly stains that so frequently mar America’s political processes: racism and classism.
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by Terence Samuel onApril 28, 2009
The Senate’s newest Democrat is likely to cause his new party as much anguish as he caused his old one.
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April 28, 2009
Don’t buy the public bravado. My fellow Republicans are hurting over Specter’s defection. And the pain is self-inflicted.
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