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Obama Speaks on Murder of Kansas Abortion Doctor
The murder of Dr. George Tiller—an abortion rights advocate who practiced medicine and performed abortions in Kansas—as he attended church services Sunday morning, has prompted this statement from President Barack Obama: I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as…
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The Health Care Story You Should Read Today
Via TIME’s Karen Tumulty, Atul Gawande looks hard at why health care costs so much more in McAllen Texas, and, writes Tumulty, “why more health care isn’t the same as better health care.” When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen—and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care—you come to…
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor is Not a "Latina Single Mother"
President Barack Obama has nominated Second Circuit Federal Appeals Court justice Sonia Sotomayor as his pick for the Supreme Court. Swapping out his previous formulation, that a potential justice ought to embrace “empathy,” Obama stressed “experience” in his assessment of what was needed on the Court: It is experience that can give a person a…
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Obama Takes on Guantanamo, Torture, and Dick Cheney at National Archives
President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the National Archives this morning in a speech that had been billed as “a comprehensive overview” of United States national security, according to Ben Rhodes, a policy adviser who is also a speechwriter for the president. The speech, delivered in the wake of the Senate’s vote not to…
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Going My Way?
Car hunting? Soon you’ll go farther for every dollar you spend on gasoline. President Barack Obama announced new, more stringent fuel efficiency standards Tuesday that would raise the mileage of each American-made car to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. The new law will affect cars beginning in model year 2012, and, environmentally, could make…
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Photo of the Day—Tiny Tot Inspects Presidential 'Do
The White House Flickr feed is really something to behold. Here’s the president getting his caesar ‘do inspected by a tiny hair afficionado. The caption? “The youngster wanted to see if the President’s haircut felt like his own.” Sho’ does! Be sure to check out our take on Five Obama Hair Dont’s, and THE ROOT’s…
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The Rise of the Black Hipster
Hipsters. They’re everywhere. You’ve seen them on skateboards, in the mall and at the club. You’ve seen them shrugging dismissively in Oakland, Calif., Willamsburg, Brooklyn and Austin, Tx. And, suddenly, in Barack Obama’s Washington, too. Recently, I encountered Hector, a teenager skateboarding with friends outside a McDonald’s in downtown D.C. He’s wearing a neon T-shirt, impossibly…
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Black Hipsters Unite!
Covers the White House and Washington for The Root. Follow her on Twitter. These twill pants, designed by Marc Jacobs for his spring 2009 collection, show how skinny pants for men have become a high fashion staple. This cardigan-clad blipster waits for the new TopShop to open in New York City. The British import brings…
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Obama's Slow Go on Cities
Just before Barack Obama hit 100 days as president, I wrote a piece asking “What Happened to the Office of Urban Policy?” I had closely followed the formation of an Urban Affairs office —wondering if the office, intended to coordinate efforts at the departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Education and the like,…
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President Obama Talks Faith, Makes Nice with Abortion Opponents at Notre Dame
President Barack Obama spoke at the 164th commencement at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana this weekend. The speech was freighted with political controversy, primarily because Notre Dame is affiliated with the Catholic Church, which uniformly opposes the abortion rights and protections that the president supports. These weeks of tension leading up to the…
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