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  • Donald Trump Runs for Dictator in Chief

    The fun way to write about Wednesday night’s presidential debate would be to focus on the ridiculous number of hashtags and memes that were produced by caustic exchanges between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump’s constant attack that Clinton is a #NastyWoman will no doubt spawn pro-Clinton T-shirts and a spike in iTunes sales for…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Fear of a Nonwhite Planet

    What are black people to do when the dog-whistling becomes a siren song? As his campaign shows signs of sinking beneath the tide of sexual assault accusations, his own vile words, inconsistent and nonexistent political and social policies, and an inability to follow the suggestions of his advisers or to stay on script during public…

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    The Root Staff

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  • BuzzFeed CEO: I Heard Ivanka Trump Talk About 'Mulatto C–k'

    Editor’s note: This post contains a tweet that some may find offensive. Ivanka Trump once told a group of friends drinking in a bar that although she had never seen “a mulatto c—k,” she would like to, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti alleges. Peretti tweeted that little tidbit in response to a BuzzFeed News report that Ivanka Trump…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Well, This Is Awkward: Obama's Half Brother to Be Trump's Guest at Wednesday's Debate

    First it was Bill Clinton’s accusers; now Donald Trump is bringing President Barack Obama’s half brother, Malik, to the final presidential debate Wednesday. It’s unclear what Trump hopes to accomplish by bringing Obama’s brother, who has dual citizenship and spends most of his time in Kenya and some time in Washington D.C., to the debate,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Anita Hill Paved the Way for Donald Trump Accusers to Speak Their Truth

    This month marks 25 years since Anita F. Hill sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testified about sexual harassment by then-Supreme Court hopeful Clarence Thomas. She testified about his commentary regarding her physical appearance and someone leaving a pubic hair on his soda can. It was shocking. Fast-forward to 2016, and here we are…

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    The Root Staff

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  • A Trump Loss Is Still a Win for the Alt-Right

    The Donald J. Trump Traveling Crazy Circus will finally crash and burn on Election Day, when millions of sane Americans head to the polls and pull the lever for Hillary Clinton. (This will happen regardless of what happens at the debate Wednesday night.) And once the election is called for the first woman to be…

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    Lawrence Ross

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  • Obama to Trump: Stop Whining and Worry About Getting Votes

    President Barack Obama had a stern message for Donald Trump on Tuesday: “Stop whining and go try to make [your] case to get votes.” Obama’s message for Trump came during a news conference with Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, in the Rose Garden. In recent days, Trump has made several claims that the election…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Green Party VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka: We Must Disrupt Our Relationship to Democratic Party

    When Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein tapped Ajamu Baraka to be her running mate back in August, there was a flurry of news stories. Most tried to paint him as the anti-Obama—too radical, too intense, too left to occupy the space just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. All of these characterizations of Baraka amounted to attempts…

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    Kirsten West Savali

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  • 8 Shows That Will Be on ‘Trump TV’ if Donald Trump Loses the Election

    The American voter finally has confirmation of what we were thinking all along: Donald Trump doesn’t really want to be president. All the evidence is there: He’s run a Dumpster fire of a campaign, and even though he managed to blow through 16 mealymouthed Republicans in the primaries while completely taking command of the Republican…

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    Jason Johnson

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  • Melania Trump: Donald Was ‘Egged on’ to Say ‘Dirty and Bad Stuff’

    Melania Trump says she has never heard her husband use the kind of language he is heard using in a 2005 video, and she questions the integrity of the women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. “I believe my husband. I believe my husband,” she said in an interview with CNN’s…

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    Monique Judge

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