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by Lenny McAllister onMarch 12, 2010
In the Cold War over health care reform, the Democrats could end up paying a high price for ruling by “reconciliation.”
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 23, 2009
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., looks back at the first decade of the first century of the new millennium.
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December 23, 2009
When we asked our contributors to name the most important events of the decade, there were some obvious choices, and quite a few that reflect The Root’s unique worldview.
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September 8, 2009
About 50 million students around the country returned to school this morning. President Barack Obama addressed a few hundred of them at a Virginia high school. Despite controversy, he wisely went above the fray, and made the speech about not his critics but the students.
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August 31, 2009
Dude tried to bean the leader of the free world with one of his Skechers and he gets out the joint early? Holy Crap.
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August 13, 2009
Speaking to a town hall in Abuja on the last legs of her ten-day trip to sub-Saharan Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used Bush v. Gore to relate to the embattled democracy. Did her diplomatic comparison go too far?
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July 23, 2009
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering the nominations of two men to represent the United States in East Asia: Republican Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah, and Democrat John V. Roos of California. But it's the Democratic appointment who is selling out Obama's promise....
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by Terence Samuel onApril 10, 2009
The country is actually way less divided than it has been in a long time. And what looks like polarization is actually a growing consensus, that one side is right and the other is not.
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 2, 2009
Read the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on A FAITH-BASED FIX with The Root's Washington reporter Dayo Olopade. Could President Obama's makeover of the office of faith-based initiatives boost the stimulus plan?
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by Kim McLarin onJanuary 7, 2009
In at least one place, our president is a rock star.
