Politics
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Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky Affair Was to Manage My Anxiety
Everyone has anxieties. Some of us have to take medicine and others, like former President Bill Clinton, have an affair with their intern. In a new four-hour documentary set to stream on Hulu starting Friday, titled Hillary, Clinton claims that his tryst with Lewinsky during his time in office was one of the “things I…
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An Open Letter to White Liberals Blaming 'Low Information' Black Voters for Not Cleaning Up White Folks' Mess
Dear Sir or White Man, I’m writing this letter, lurking outside the threshold to equality, peering through the same peephole through which we watched you enjoy 401 years of unfettered, glorious freedom while black people presented themselves as a living sacrifice, offering their necks to nooses, their skulls to batons and their children’s bodies to…
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Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren Drops Out of the Presidential Race
Sometimes the right decision is still the tough decision. With little to go on except the hope that one of the preeminent Democratic nominees is caught in a urine-soaked Russian bed or a has a secret lover who’s decided to tell all, Elizabeth Warren, the woman with all the plans, has decided to end her…
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Trump Calls Health Experts Data on Coronavirus Deaths False. His Proof: A Hunch
President Trump is a liar’s liar. Other less experienced liars look up to Trump. He’s #liargoals. He’s also a goddamn bumbling idiot who will say anything even when scientific data and experts say different. Trump is the racist uncle who makes up stories to shame kids for complaining about how difficult their life is. The…
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Black Women Went to the Voting Booth With Pragmatism on Super Tuesday
OAKLAND, Calif.—Branice McKinzie walked up to a ballot drop box near the Alameda County Courthouse in downtown Oakland knowing that much of the electorate isn’t voting for Elizabeth Warren at this point, but she cast her ballot for the Massachusetts senator anyway. She praised Warren for her aggressive challenge of banks engaging in predatory lending…
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The Root Exclusive: Symone Sanders Is Part of the Dora Milaje
We should’ve known that Symone Sanders’ work as senior adviser to former Vice President Joe Biden was a cover. We should’ve known by the haircut and the “don’t take shit” attitude. We should’ve known with the way that she punishes pundits on a daily basis. Symone Sanders is part of the Dora Milaje, the elite…
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Biden Stays on Brand, Bernie Wins Pot-Smoking States and Other Takeaways From Super Tuesday
It’s the resurgence of Uncle Joe! If you woke up on Regular Wednesday, which is the official name for the day after Super Tuesday, you would’ve thought that the former vice president was in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded walking up to the plate needing a grand slam to win the…
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There Is No Such Thing as the 'Black Vote'
Once, for about an hour, on a hot day in July 2007, I was not black. This was before people had music on their phones, but I had figured out a way to hook my iPod Shuffle up to my stereo system. After hearing my Uncle Junior play it, I fell in love with James…
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Evil Billionaire Mike Bloomberg Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Biden After Blowing Half a Billion
It must be nice to be so wealthy that you can ignore people whose job it is to tell you that you don’t have a roasted marshmallows chance in Omarion’s heart of coming anywhere close to winning the Democratic nomination, and you forge on ahead anyway. After blowing half a billion dollars on what might…
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Weed Justice Is at the Top of Some California Voters' Minds on Super Tuesday
OAKLAND, Calif.—Chaney Turner has already voted in California’s primary and said that the person who got their vote was most likely to liberalize America’s federal marijuana policies to empower black cannabis entrepreneurs. Turner (whose pronouns are they/them/their) and I are in downtown Oakland at the Make Westing bar, which is located in an area where…