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The Entire Health Care Debate Explained–On a Napkin
The technology writer and rudimentary artist Dan Roam decided that the American conversation on health care reform should be simple enough to explain on the back of a napkin. So he gave it a shot. Watch: Healthcare Napkins All —DAYO OLOPADE Covers the White House and Washington for The Root. Follow her on Twitter.
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'The Simpsons' Hit Angolan TV
Fresh off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Angola last week, the television show “The Simpsons” appears to be paying the less-than-democratic, oil-rich southern African nation a visit. Via McClatchy’s always-interesting “Somewhere in Africa” blog: America’s most dysfunctional cartoon family (OK, second most) is coming to TV screens in Angola, via the South African…
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Will Obama's Public Option Punk Out End Up Passing Health Reform?
On the heels of Jack White’s breast-beating cry for Barack Obama to stop punking out on health care reform, it’s worth reposting “The Daily Show”‘s equally impassioned cry for Obama to do the same: It’s understandable that progressive-minded Americans might want the president to show a little Bush-era salesmanship, and start acting like the party…
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Where’s the Beef in Africa?
On Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo—part of a seven-nation tour of sub-Saharan Africa—a flurry of attention focused on her sharp reply to a local student who seemed to question her role as chief diplomat of the United States. All the attention overshadowed the substance of…
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President Obama Tries "Straight Talk" in NYTimes
President Obama has held seven town halls this summer and one lengthy primetime press conference in service of his plan to bring affordable health care coverage to every American. The charm offensive doesn’t seem to be going the president’s way—and may even have watered down his brand—but the White House seems to think their strategy…
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Clinton Compares Nigerian Elections to Florida 2000
On the last legs of her ten-day trip to sub-Saharan Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared the US to Nigeria. Speaking generally about the need to lift the shroud of illegitimacy that often covers elections on the sub-continent—rather notably, in the disputed 2007 vote that seated current Nigeria president Umar Yar’Adua—Clinton told a town…
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Obama Hugs it Out with Sidney Poitier
President Barack Obama bestowed the National Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, to a host of prominent Americans today, including actor Sidney Poitier, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Obama gave a particularly moving tribute to Senator Ted Kennedy, the last to be cited, and said at the start of the…
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Beer Goggles: The Lessons of Skip Gates' Arrest
In honor of the reconciliatory beer being shared tonight at the White House, between president Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr, and Cambridge police Sergeant Joseph Crowley, it’s worth revisiting, however briefly, discussion of the larger issues raised by the arrest. I appeared on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show to discuss racial profiling and race…
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Live From Washington, It's Urban Affairs
After weeks of uncertainty and anticipation, the White House Office of Urban Affairs has rolled off the assembly line. The office is designed to facilitate and coordinate programs that improve the lives of city dwellers, from the food served in urban classrooms to the bolts that gird subway lines. President Barack Obama has finally addressed…
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Why Obama Did Not, Should Not, Apologize to Officer Crowley
There is no greater bully pulpit in the world than that of the presidency of the United States. At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, President Obama, before a stunned White House Press Corps, used the reach of his megaphone to try to tame a wildfire started two days earlier when he waded into the Henry Louis…