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The Health Care Story You Should Read Today
Via TIME’s Karen Tumulty, Atul Gawande looks hard at why health care costs so much more in McAllen Texas, and, writes Tumulty, “why more health care isn’t the same as better health care.” When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen—and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care—you come to…
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Obama Takes on Guantanamo, Torture, and Dick Cheney at National Archives
President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the National Archives this morning in a speech that had been billed as “a comprehensive overview” of United States national security, according to Ben Rhodes, a policy adviser who is also a speechwriter for the president. The speech, delivered in the wake of the Senate’s vote not to…
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Going My Way?
Car hunting? Soon you’ll go farther for every dollar you spend on gasoline. President Barack Obama announced new, more stringent fuel efficiency standards Tuesday that would raise the mileage of each American-made car to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. The new law will affect cars beginning in model year 2012, and, environmentally, could make…
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Photo of the Day—Tiny Tot Inspects Presidential 'Do
The White House Flickr feed is really something to behold. Here’s the president getting his caesar ‘do inspected by a tiny hair afficionado. The caption? “The youngster wanted to see if the President’s haircut felt like his own.” Sho’ does! Be sure to check out our take on Five Obama Hair Dont’s, and THE ROOT’s…
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The Rise of the Black Hipster
Hipsters. They’re everywhere. You’ve seen them on skateboards, in the mall and at the club. You’ve seen them shrugging dismissively in Oakland, Calif., Willamsburg, Brooklyn and Austin, Tx. And, suddenly, in Barack Obama’s Washington, too. Recently, I encountered Hector, a teenager skateboarding with friends outside a McDonald’s in downtown D.C. He’s wearing a neon T-shirt, impossibly…
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Obama's Slow Go on Cities
Just before Barack Obama hit 100 days as president, I wrote a piece asking “What Happened to the Office of Urban Policy?” I had closely followed the formation of an Urban Affairs office —wondering if the office, intended to coordinate efforts at the departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Education and the like,…
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President Obama Talks Faith, Makes Nice with Abortion Opponents at Notre Dame
President Barack Obama spoke at the 164th commencement at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana this weekend. The speech was freighted with political controversy, primarily because Notre Dame is affiliated with the Catholic Church, which uniformly opposes the abortion rights and protections that the president supports. These weeks of tension leading up to the…
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The Root's Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Wins Prestigious Public Television Award
Henry Louis Gates, Jr,. editor of THE ROOT, has been awarded the 2009 Ralph Lowell Award, public television’s most prestigious honor. Announced today by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Lowell Award is intended to celebrate an individual’s outstanding accomplishments and lifelong contributions to the development of public broadcasting. Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of…
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Is Kenya's Sex Strike a Problem for Congress?
Juuuust as THE ROOT concluded that the Great Kenyan Sex Strike of 2009 was no good, we’re hearing word that, tomorrow, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) will preside over a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee titled, “Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones.” The session…
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“A Definition of Hell” in Sri Lanka
British foreign secretary David Milliband spoke to a group of reporters at the New America Foundation this morning. The talk was ostensibly about new media strategies and diplomacy (Milliband blogs—the unthinkably modern equivalent of Hillary Clinton trying out Twitter), but quickly turned to the hot-button geostrategic issues of the day. Moderator Steve Coll, president of…