Mar 25 2014
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Today, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in what has been dubbed the Hobby Lobby case, a catch-all name for two…
Mar 7 2014
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On Thursday Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)—chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee—told Rep.…
Mar 7 2014
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On Wednesday the U.S. Senate voted 47-52 to reject President Barack Obama’s nomination of former NAACP Legal Defense…
Feb 27 2014
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If you read my profile in The Root of African-American Tea Partier Katrina Pierson on Tuesday, you know that in her…
Feb 5 2014
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Today one of the biggest national drugstore chains announced something that would once have been unthinkable: It…
Jan 16 2014
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Though the candidates rarely discussed poverty during the 2012 presidential election season, it now seems to have…
Dec 24 2013
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The family of New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio has already begun to emerge as a model American family for…
Dec 20 2013
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Apparently Rep. Jack Kingston has taken it upon himself to pick up where Mitt Romney left off in attempting to…
Dec 10 2013
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This week the New York Times landed in the news in a way the paper probably wishes it had not. A reporter teased a…
Dec 7 2013
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By any measure the last few months have not been a high point for the Obama administration. The rollout of the…
Dec 5 2013
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As the battle over whether employers can opt to decline to cover birth control on religious grounds heads to the…
Dec 4 2013
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When your party’s presidential candidate can only muster a dismal 6 percent of black votes, 27 percent of Latino…
Dec 2 2013
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Those who know me well know that despite the fact that I make most of my living writing about politics, I almost…
Nov 28 2013
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Sasha Obama has done it again. Weeks ago the youngest first daughter wore a sweater in public that ended up selling…
Nov 27 2013
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Despite the seemingly endless bad press that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has received in recent weeks,…
Nov 25 2013
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The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination generated extensive media coverage of what…
Nov 22 2013
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Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid has generated most of the headlines for his willingness to “go nuclear,”…
Nov 15 2013
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Yesterday the president said what every American not living under a rock already knew: “I mean, we fumbled the…
Nov 12 2013
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In a brand-new policy role, first lady Michelle Obama is getting behind President Obama’s goal to ensure that the…
Nov 10 2013
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Thanks to the book Game Change, which captured the behind-the-scenes drama of the 2008 presidential campaign,…