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The State of the Union Was Obama’s Exit Interview With the Nation
Many Barack Obama supporters, knowing that Tuesday night was the very last State of the Union by the president, got some funny ideas in their heads. Having vicariously experienced all of the stress, racism and abuse the president has suffered over the last eight years, many were waiting for him to just get brolic onstage—to…
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Jan. 7, 2008: The Day Hillary Clinton Lost the Black Vote
It was a long time ago in an America we would hardly recognize today: Jan. 7 of 2008. The main conversation around Bill Cosby was his conservative positions, not his choice of home beverage. Tracee Ellis Ross was still Joan and not Rainbow. And Dr. Ben Carson was still just the best neurosurgeon in American history.…
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5 Things to Watch This 2016 Election Year
The first week of the New Year is the perfect time for political predictions, trend-spotting and a whole host of other prognostications about the upcoming year, only half of which will likely come true. However, 2016 won’t be like most election years. It’s an open-seat election; we’re definitely getting a new president-elect by November, unless…
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President Obama Just Made Gun Control an Election Issue in 2016
About 15 seconds after President Barack Obama delivered a heartfelt, emotional series of proposals for gun safety, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released a statement. Within five minutes after President Obama finished speaking, Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee, released a statement. The swiftness with which these statements were released means that unless the…
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She Botched the George Zimmerman Trial, but Will Angela Corey Get Re-Elected in Fla.?
If you live in one of the 10 or so swing states for the 2016 presidential election, about 12 hours ago, you started getting bombarded with zillions of ads. Whether they’re ads suggesting that Marco Rubio is an absentee senator or ads in which Donald Trump is promising to build a wall against Mexicans or…
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University of Mo. President Resigns, Proving That #SportsLivesMatter
The University of Missouri football team just got the school’s president, Tim Wolfe, to resign. Usually when you hear about a college president resigning in relation to athletics, a scandal has occurred and a combination of money, drugs and criminal behavior by some college players has forced him or her to step down. In this…
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Politics, Lies and a Mixtape? The Unlikely Rise and Probable Fall of Ben Carson
How do you explain a phenomenon like Ben Carson? Even better, how do you explain a phenomenon like Ben Carson in our 24-hour news cycle, which is amped by the media methamphetamine that is social media? When I first started this story Wednesday, it was going to be an in-depth look into how Ben Carson,…
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The Walking Jeb: How Jeb Bush’s Campaign Has Become the Living Dead
One of the best things about adult Halloween is that you have no pretense about what you’re really dressing up for. As a kid, it really mattered that you looked like Lando Calrissian or Donatello or a witch. As an adult, you know it’s all for fun, you’re not fooling anyone, and we all know you aren’t…
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Can We Stop Pretending That Ben Carson Is Running for President?
There was a time when running for president was actually a money-losing venture. In fact, over the last 30 or so years, most presidential candidates (including some who actually won) ended up with tremendous debts after the campaign. Being in the red during and after a campaign was so common that paying off a former…
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When It Comes to Politics and Sports, Jeb Bush and Ben Carson Are Doing It Wrong
American sports have always been a vast canvas upon which politicians can safely paint their personal theories of American life. Running for Congress and want to point out the abuses of management over labor? You can rail against the NFL’s decadeslong battle to hide the impact of concussions. Putting together a message of self-reliance and bootstrap…
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