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The Midterm Elections Helped—Hillary Clinton?
As political analysts continue to unpack what the 2014 midterm elections meant for each party, one theory has emerged that ought to make Hillary Clinton smile. According to an Al-Jazeera report, the beating the Democrats took helped Clinton’s probable bid for the White House in 2016 in two ways: First, it suggests that one of…
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Obama Will Play Nice With GOP but Won’t Budge on His Plans to Reform Immigration
Now that the guessing game is over and everyone’s cards are on the table, President Obama has outlined the facets of his agenda that he’s willing to compromise with the Republicans on, and the one issue he’s not budging on: immigration. “In a sign of how he intends to govern under a new political order with ascendant…
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Some Beneficiaries of Obamacare Still Voted for Republicans Who Are Against It
Democrats who accuse low-income Republicans of voting against their own interests may be on to something. A New York Times report notes that Republicans who became insured and benefited the most under the Affordable Care Act—dubbed Obamacare—elected Republicans to their state and federal legislatures who do not support the measure. “Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia—states…
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Republicans Capture the Senate; Voters Paint the Nation Red
Political observers called it months ago, but Tuesday’s midterm elections made it official: The Republicans have captured control of the U.S. Senate. And even though this outcome was predicted, the actual numbers are making it that much more impactful. According to a CNN report, Republican candidates across the nation won seven Senate seats that were…
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African Union: Burkina Faso Military, Hand Over Government or Face Sanctions
The self-appointed military government in Burkina Faso has about two weeks to hand over control of the government to a civilian leader or face severe sanctions from the African Union, the BBC is reporting. The country’s previous leader, President Blaise Compaore, was forced to resign. The military then appointed one of its ranking members as leader of…
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Obama Campaigns for Northeast Democrats During Midterm Elections
President Barack Obama came out of hiding Sunday and campaigned for Democratic candidates in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. He’s calling these midterm elections his last official campaign—which has probably been a bittersweet experience, seeing as how so many Democrats have tried to distance themselves from the unpopular president in the past few months. “In tight races…
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The Root TV: I'm Black, Middle Class and Worried That My Success Made My Kid Less Driven
At the heart of the ABC series Black-ish lies one question: How do you go about instilling certain traits and values about hard work and success in your children if your kids have a much more privileged upbringing than you had? It’s a question that is furrowing the collective eyebrows of middle-class and upper-middle-class black parents…
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Must-See Alert: Stop What You’re Doing and Watch AmeriCAN
Empathy. It’s probably one of the most difficult emotions to teach. It’s the emotion that President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama want most for their daughters to be able to readily tap into—the ability to put oneself in another’s person shoes and experience the world from his or her point of view; to feel…
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40,000 Ga. Voter-Registration Applications Are Still MIA
In the ongoing saga of the estimated 40,000 voter-registration applications that went missing in Georgia, Brian Kemp, the secretary of state, initially said that he processed the missing applications and that the registrants (who are predominantly black and Hispanic) were now on the rolls and would be able to vote on Election Day. However, a new Al-Jazeera report suggests that the issue is…
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Maine Nurse: Stop Ebola Quarantine or I’ll Sue
They say the CIA ain’t got nothin’ on a woman with a plan. The nurse who returned from West Africa and was quarantined by the state of Maine because of concerns that she might have contracted Ebola while treating patients overseas defied her state’s orders to stay inside her home and went for a bike ride…
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