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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onFebruary 2, 2011
An effort by Senate Republicans to repeal health care reform was defeated on Wednesday -- which means the Supreme Court will likely decide the law's fate.
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November 30, 2010
An Obama administration official has hinted that the House will today vote on the long-running Pigford-Cobell lawsuit, thus coming one step closer to concluding a case that’s been drawn out for decades now.
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July 19, 2010
In an increasingly common reminder of the partisanship of American politics, President Obama harshly criticized Senate Republicans on Saturday in his weekly address.
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by Les Payne onJuly 9, 2010
The former president would forgive the late Sen. Robert Byrd his violent racial past. It's another example of Bill Clinton's flexible morality.
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July 7, 2010
Like so many others in the black community, for the Greene family, the traumas of the father are also the son’s.
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June 29, 2010
If anything good has come from the loss of West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who died yesterday at the age of 92, it’s another milestone in the changing of America’s political face.
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June 18, 2010
Vox Africanus weighs in on the Alvin Greene saga. Is his Senate run like a box of chocolates?
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by Sophia Nelson onApril 30, 2010
Charlie Crist's exit from the GOP signals the end of the Grand Old Party as we knew it.
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by Nsenga Burton onApril 28, 2010
Our unique spin on today's headlines.
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January 27, 2010
Obama's first State of the Union address took on big banks, health care, and job creation. But it won't solve the country's woes—that much is up to the Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
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