Politics
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Colleges Promised to Hire More Black Professors, but So Far It’s Been Nothing But Talk
Robert Palmer knows how uncomfortable it can feel to be a black professor at a predominantly white college. He recalls speaking with a white student he was advising at the public Binghamton University in upstate New York, where just 4 percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, according to federal figures. “He comes out…
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Janelle Monáe, Angela Rye and The Root Show Spelman What Happens When We All Vote
Macaroni and aluminum foil. In 20 years, when two-thirds of the Senate is filled with graduates from Atlanta’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and you spot me on the White House lawn talking to the new Secretary of Clapback, Angela Rye, if you ask me what I brought to President Janelle Monáe’s inauguration cookout, now…
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Trump’s Treatment of Female Reporters During Press Conference Shows Why He Supports Judge Kavanaugh
As with most things during Trump’s presidency, what started as a victory lap over a bootleg NAFTA alternative turned into a show of sexist, misogynistic, male chauvinist pig shit … or in laymen’s terms, “the presidency.” After Trump boasted about his dumb ass trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, more properly called the “I don’t…
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Omarosa, in Her Own Words: The Former Trump Aide Dishes on Reactions to Her Book and Why She Doesn’t Care About Being Invited to the Cookout
The ongoing drama at the White House is the epitome of “political theater.” And it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving to a public and media with an insatiable appetite for the onslaught of egomaniacal behavior from the current leader of the free world. Omarosa Manigault Newman has borne witness—and even contributed,…
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Donald Trump Jr. Is Scared for His Sons After Watching How Brett Kavanaugh Was Treated
Donald Trump Jr., the breakout idiot of the Trump brood, is winning the four-person race between himself, Betsy DeVos, the skeletal remains of Kellyanne Conway, and the presidential KFC bucket for dumbest person with White House access. During an interview with Daily Mail TV, Not-Ivanka Trump said that after watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, he’s…
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GOP Congressional Candidate Blames LGBTQ Rights Law on Illiterate Black Heathens
A Republican Trump supporter running for Congress informed her Twitter followers last week that a new law protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community only passed because black people in Cleveland are illiterate and don’t attend weekly worship services. That’s the gospel according to Beverly Goldstein, the Republican candidate for Ohio’s 11th District seat in…
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Millionaire Sens. Chuck Grassley and Jon Tester Are Applying for Wypipo Welfare
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is not only a curmudgeonly old man and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he’s also an asshole. The distinction needs to be made. One can be crotchety and harmless. Grassley, however, is a crotchety, rich, powerful, asshole. He’s literally the walking embodiment of Mr. Burns or Scrooge McDuck. Turns…
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I Went to College With Men Like Kavanaugh. That's Why I Know He's Probably Lying About His Drinking
As an undergraduate in the 1990s, I didn’t attend an Ivy League school, but I attended one that was very similar, Davidson College in North Carolina. It was dubbed, by whom I don’t even know, the “Princeton of the South.” It remains a Top 10 ranked liberal arts college. (For reference: It’s where Stephen Curry…