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Health Care Reform: One Year Later
Wednesday marks the first anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the law better known as health care reform. But despite the passage of time, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey, most Americans are still confused about how it will impact them personally. If all goes according to plan, by 2019…
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Donald Payne on Libya: Far From a Slam Dunk
In the days since President Barack Obama authorized U.S. military strikes in Libya, there has been a barrage of commentary on whether he should have made the conflict our problem. Supporters agree with the president that America could not stand idly by as Col. Muammar Qaddafi waged violence against citizens — a situation that they…
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Obama Cites U.S.' Shared African Heritage With Brazil in Speech
This weekend President Obama embarked on his five-day Latin America trip to Brazil, Chile (where he touched down on Monday) and El Salvador to strengthen relationships, with a particular focus on the U.S. trading role in some of the world’s fastest growing markets. Addressing Brazilians directly in a speech from Rio de Janeiro on Sunday afternoon,…
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Obama Warns of Military Action in Libya
Following heavy criticism of his cautious leadership style on Libya, on Friday President Obama gave remarks about the crisis surrounding Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s escalating violence against the Libyan people. Obama announced that the United States is preparing to take a more aggressive approach in the conflict, but also tried to assure that American military engagement would…
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The Real March Madness: NCAA Graduation Rates
As college basketball fans tune in to the NCAA tournament, the Obama administration hopes that they’ll also start thinking about their favorite teams’ academic credentials. A new report (pdf) from the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES) shows unconscionable disparities in the graduation rates between black and white players on men’s…
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Who Is Herman Cain?
Read the latest Herman Cain news on The Root. In his 2005 book, They Think You’re Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do to Keep It, Herman Cain commiserates with voters who have grown weary of Washington politics. Now he’s petitioning that same electorate to support his (potential) bid to become…
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Do Obama's Education Policies Stack Up to His Goals?
No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era law mandating standardized testing as a measure of school success, is not working and needs to be reformed. This was the thrust of a speech by President Barack Obama, who repeated, “We have to fix No Child Left Behind” five times while speaking at a Virginia middle school on…
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Obama Draws Line on Energy Dependence
For a few days now, Republicans have criticized President Obama over rising gas prices. House Speaker John Boehner blames the problem on Obama’s now-lifted moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico last summer and the termination of drilling leases in national parks. Others have accused the president of gleefully sitting back and watching…
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US Seeks to Tap a Rich Source of Black Engineers
As rising oil prices loom over the economy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu continues to stump for investments in new energy and competitive education. Chu has a particular interest in drawing underrepresented African-American students to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. On Thursday, he visited Baltimore’s Morgan State University, which houses an innovative engineering…
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Notorious HIV: The Criminal Prosecution of a Virus
In Texas, a man is serving 35 years in prison for spitting at a police officer. In the state of Washington, a 19-year-old college student sits behind bars on first-degree assault charges for having unprotected sex with his girlfriend. A Georgia woman was sentenced to eight years in prison after consensual sex without a condom,…
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