5 Ways the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Cases Affect Black Women
Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in what has been dubbed the Hobby Lobby case, a catch-all name for two…
Yes, Rep. Issa, Cutting Rep. Cummings’ Mic Really Was Pretty ‘Sorry’
On Thursday Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)—chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee—told Rep. Elijah…
Senate Aide: It’s ‘Impossible’ to Get Obama’s Black Nominees Past Senate Republicans
On Wednesday the U.S. Senate voted 47-52 to reject President Barack Obama’s nomination of former NAACP Legal Defense…
Update: Black Tea Partier Katrina Pierson Collected Unemployment Benefits
If you read my profile in The Root of African-American Tea Partier Katrina Pierson on Tuesday, you know that in her bid…
The Obamas and CVS on the Same Page About Quitting Smoking
Today one of the biggest national drugstore chains announced something that would once have been unthinkable: It will…
Hold On, Conservatives, Marriage Is No Poverty Cure-All
Though the candidates rarely discussed poverty during the 2012 presidential election season, it now seems to have…
De Blasio Daughter Shares Story of Depression and Substance Abuse
The family of New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio has already begun to emerge as a model American family for the…
Poor Kids Should Sweep Floors, Says GOP Scrooge
Apparently Rep. Jack Kingston has taken it upon himself to pick up where Mitt Romney left off in attempting to…
A Homeless Girl’s Story Highlights Family Planning and Poverty
This week the New York Times landed in the news in a way the paper probably wishes it had not. A reporter teased a…
Give Obama Credit for Jobs Turnaround
By any measure the last few months have not been a high point for the Obama administration. The rollout of the…
Black Mom Says Catholic Hospital’s Abortion Policy Almost Killed Her
As the battle over whether employers can opt to decline to cover birth control on religious grounds heads to the…
The GOP’s Rosa Parks Tweet Was Lazy Politics
When your party’s presidential candidate can only muster a dismal 6 percent of black votes, 27 percent of Latino votes…
Michelle Obama and My Feminist Nightmare
Those who know me well know that despite the fact that I make most of my living writing about politics, I almost never…
Obama Girls Stand Tall as Role Models
Sasha Obama has done it again. Weeks ago the youngest first daughter wore a sweater in public that ended up selling out…
Why a Supreme Court Challenge of Obamacare Matters
Despite the seemingly endless bad press that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has received in recent weeks,…
Obama May Not Worry About His Safety. We Do
The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination generated extensive media coverage of what happened…
A Get-Tough Obama Finally Emerges
Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid has generated most of the headlines for his willingness to “go nuclear,”…
Stop Apologizing: Start Firing
Yesterday the president said what every American not living under a rock already knew: “I mean, we fumbled the rollout…
Michelle Obama on Education: ‘My Story Can Be Your Story’
In a brand-new policy role, first lady Michelle Obama is getting behind President Obama’s goal to ensure that the…
New Book Claims Obama Disses Congressional Blacks
Thanks to the book Game Change, which captured the behind-the-scenes drama of the 2008 presidential campaign, authors…