Politics
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Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Sen. Jennifer McClellan Joins The Root on Instagram Live
Virginia State Sen. Jennifer McClellan is entering Virginia’s gubernatorial race as her state and the rest of the country endures uprisings stemming from the police killings of Black men and women and a pandemic that has killed more than 130,00 people in the United States. In Richmond, her state’s capital, Black residents made up more…
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How U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Espy Plans to Win in Mississippi
Mike Espy is ready to win this time. That’s the main thing he wants you to know about why his 2020 U.S. Senate race out of Mississippi will be different from his last go-around in 2018. He said that when he threw his hat into the special election that year to replace outgoing-Senator Thad Cochran,…
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Did He Try Craigslist? Trump Reportedly Wanted to Sell Puerto Rico
Trump is the dude who successfully sold three NutriBullets on eBay for a combined $15 profit and now wants to talk with you about your finances. Apparently, the brilliant real estate mogul—who was gifted all of his real estate from his father, the actual real estate mogul—considered selling Puerto Rico in 2017 because it’s an…
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Trump’s Fight Against Common Sense Has Made Dr. Anthony Fauci Collateral Damage
President Trump is the Scott Baio of Chuck Woolerys. For some reason, the president does this thing where an expert in a field—literally, a person who has spent damn near his entire life becoming an expert in his respective field—tells the president what makes sense, and the president then spends his time discrediting the expert’s…
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Trump Finally Wears Mask in Public, Still Wears It Like an Asshole
I hate you half-assed mask people. You know who you are. You are the assholes who know that masks are mandatory and maybe it’s because you’re lazy or an asshole or both, but you wear the mask at half-mast, meaning it’s over your mouth and not your nose, which makes me want to rake your…
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Trump Continues Crooked Behavior by Saving Roger Stone From Federal Prison
As anyone could have predicted—and as The Root did just a day ago—President Trump has used the power of his office to commute the sentence of his criminal crony Roger Stone. As the New York Times reports, on Friday evening Trump issued a statement announcing his decision to stop Stone from facing the legal consequences of…
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Trump: You Know Who This COVID-19 Mess and Racial Unrest Is Really Hurting? Me!
The real victim, the one we rarely talk about during this pandemic and racially trying times isn’t the families who are hurting from the coronavirus, or those who have lost loved ones. It’s not even those who have been victims of systemic racism or those who have shortened their lives trying to explain to white…
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Trump Is Totally Going to Pardon Mr. Whitefolks, Roger Stone
On Friday, Trump was asked about possibly pardoning Mr. Whitefolks.
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Trump Calls Conservative OnlyFans and Proceeds to Lie About Acing a Cognitive Test
President Trump wants America to know one thing: He is the most cognitive president to ever cognitive, and when it comes to cognitive functions, he will out cognitive Olympic-level cognitive motherfuckers because when it comes to cognitive shit, he’s acing it. On Thursday, Trump told Fox News, aka conservative OnlyFans, that doctors who gave him…
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No Peace Without Economic Justice
When Andre Perry thinks about American policing and incarceration, he sees an economic issue as much as a human rights one. “There’s no bigger wealth extractor than the criminal justice system,” Perry, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities told The…