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  • Trump Had to Check His Notes to Remember to Care About Mass-Shooting Victims

    Wednesday’s White House meeting on school safety was a triumph in successful vetting and presidential hand-holding. While billed as an opportunity for victims of the Parkland, Fla., mass school shooting to voice their concerns to the president, it quickly devolved into moving but ultimately worthless tragedy porn that gave President Donald Trump and his puppeteers…

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    Jason Johnson






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    February 22, 2018
  • Mitt Romney Is America’s Thirstiest Politician

    In case you didn’t see the news last week, Mitt Romney has decided that he will run for Senate from the great state of Utah in the 2018 midterms. Under most circumstances, a failed presidential party nominee running for a Senate seat wouldn’t be big news. It’d be the equivalent of LeBron James retiring to…

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    Jason Johnson






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    February 21, 2018
  • Killmonger Was Wrong, and Y’all Know It

    Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for the film Black Panther. I am not here to defend the Black Panther movie. Now, I happen to like it. It was well-acted and moving and is probably the second-best Marvel movie after Captain America: Winter Soldier, but that’s just me. All black people don’t have to like…

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    Jason Johnson






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    February 19, 2018
  • I Listened to Trump Pretend He Cares About School Shootings so You Don’t Have To

    Donald Trump doesn’t care about school shootings. When the press and public demand that the president address issues that he clearly doesn’t care about, it only makes the problem worse—like a teacher squeezing an insincere apology out of a bully who’s just going to hit you again the moment she leaves the room. Trump spoke…

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    Jason Johnson






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    February 15, 2018
  • Maryland Governor Tries to Settle HBCUs’ Lawsuit With $100 Million; Schools Say ‘What Else You Got?’

    Years ago, The Root Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I were having a conversation about America’s jacked-up relationship with black people. We were enslaved for more than 200 years, lived under American apartheid for another century, and then finally, in the last 50 years or so, America has made a half-hearted attempt to erase its terrible…

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    Jason Johnson






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    February 9, 2018
  • These Polls Ain’t Loyal: Why the Generic Congressional Ballot Is the Worst Predictor in American Politics

    Nothing amuses me more as a political scientist than people who just don’t trust polls. The skepticism is usually brought on by incredulity about some type of polling analysis—“There’s no way black districts voted more Republican in 2016 than in 2012”—which is usually followed by some nonscientific justification for not believing the results. Well, no…

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    Jason Johnson






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    February 7, 2018
  • Trump’s State of the Union Gave Me Life … Not a Life I Wanted, but a Full Life Nonetheless

    I just finished watching Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. And to quote former President George W. Bush, “That was some weird shit.” Seriously, that was the absolute worst, most disturbing speech I have ever heard by a major American politician, and I’ve seen Sarah Palin speak live … twice. I was expecting…

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    Jason Johnson






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    January 31, 2018
  • White Candidate for Georgia Governor Basically Does MLK Blackface

    Bless her heart; she’s trying. Can we just begin by pointing out that Stacey Evans, the 39-year-old white lawyer and former Georgia state representative running to be the Democratic nominee for governor, is TRYING HER BEST [insert clap emojis]? She’s trying in that way your sister-in-law from Minnesota tried to make cornbread last Thanksgiving. She’s…

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    Jason Johnson






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    January 25, 2018
  • Hey, Dude: Black Panther Wasn’t Filmed in Africa, Just Like Star Wars Wasn’t Filmed in Space 

    I am the last person to believe in black sacred cows. You want to go after the Obamas? Go for it. You want to question the quality of Beyoncé’s music? Have at it. You want to say that some of Ava DuVernay’s movies are boring? Be my guest. We’re ’bout that life here at The…

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    Jason Johnson






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    January 22, 2018
  • I’m De Captain Now! Republicans Hold 9,000,000 Kids Hostage With Likely Government Shutdown

    Saturday is the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and you must admit that he’s managed a pretty radical transformation of America. He’s turned his White House into the location of a horrible reality show. He’s turned Twitter into a weapon of mass destruction. He’s made the United States the most hated country on…

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    Jason Johnson






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    January 19, 2018
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