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The Amazing Comeback of Susan Rice
(The Root) — There have been plenty of second acts in politics, from former President Bill Clinton surviving a sex-turned-impeachment scandal, to former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry returning to public life from a crack-and-prostitute scandal. But rarely do political comebacks happen in the span of a few short months. And yet that appears to…
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6 of Hip-Hop's Least Likely Supporters
(The Root) — With the debate raging over gun control, the folks behind creative enterprises from video games to Hollywood are facing criticism regarding their potentially negative influence on impressionable Americans. Music is not immune. Hip-hop has long been one of conservative America’s favorite punching bags, with Republicans and Democrats alike criticizing the genre for…
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Reversing Office Double Standards
When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer asked her employees who normally work at home to work from the office instead, where there is an on-site nursery, the criticism was fierce. But what if Mayer was a man, asks Keli Goff on the Huffington Post. When reading about some of the criticism lobbed at Mayer and Sandberg,…
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What the Desiline Victor Act Does
(The Root) — If there is one woman who has stolen the show from President Obama during his State of the Union addresses, it has been his wife, first lady Michelle Obama. Her attire and arms have previously garnered almost as much attention as his speeches. But during his most recent State of the Union…
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How Casual Racism Can Help Supreme Court
(The Root) — Every now and then someone says something so colossally stupid and offensive that the offended party ends up thanking him. The reason? Because the offending remark ends up costing the offender what remaining credibility he or she had, and ultimately ends up benefiting the offended party. One of the most famous examples…
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Will a Black Justice Help Set Back the Vote?
(The Root) — It is possible that this Black History Month could close with a case whose decision could mean a major setback to civil rights, occurring in the age of the first black president and aided by the second black Supreme Court justice. On Wednesday the high court is scheduled to hear one of…
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Obama's Credibility Gap on Black Fatherhood
(The Root) — When President Obama gave a speech in his hometown of Chicago in a bid to address the city’s stratospheric gun violence, his remarks drew criticism, but not just from the usual suspects. While his gun-control remarks often spur complaints from the National Rifle Association, this time he also found himself under attack…
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Why Bad Parents Oppose Kid-Free Flights
Writing at the Huffington Post, The Root’s political correspondent, Keli Goff, argues that there’s nothing at all wrong with child-free cabins on airplanes. I’ve long believed that people who claim they don’t like kids are misguided. It’s not that they don’t like kids. They just don’t like bad parents. I was reminded of this when…
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Are Black Immigrants Lost in the Debate?
(The Root) — Immigration reform has emerged as the most-talked-about domestic-policy issue of 2013. In his first major interview after winning re-election, President Obama dubbed it one of his major second-term priorities. But perhaps more notably, high-profile conservative Republicans have latched onto it as well. Fox News firebrand Sean Hannity announced a political about-face on…
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Is Obama Ashamed of Tiger Woods?
(The Root) — A lot has been made of President Obama’s recent golf session with Tiger Woods. More specifically, a lot has been made of the fact that the press was excluded from the outing. While the president has some surprising defenders on this, among them Fox News Channel’s Charles Krauthammer and, more tepidly, Bill…
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