If “you know you done fucked up, right?” was a mood, it would look something like this:

There is no government.

Despite my best efforts, I have yet to succeed in having Sallie Mae recognized as a domestic terrorist organization.…

Vladimir Putin’s most beloved Russian operative walked onto the White House lawn and told the press that he was “all…

In the immediate aftermath of tragedy, the phrase “thoughts and prayers” is probably the last thing you want to…

If the NRA were smart, it would turn its internal turmoil into a reality television show for its NRA TV platform.…

The House of Representatives just took a powerful stance in protection of women—and in direct opposition to the…

“The No. 1 way that women are being killed with guns is by their beloveds, their boyfriends, their significant…

NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre hit group members with a four-page letter. In it, he blamed the group’s…

Rapper Killer Mike stopped by The Root to chat about his new Netflix series, Trigger Warning, and be warned, some of…

If the gun-related deaths we write about started to give you broken-record vibes, it’s for a reason: recent reports…

Things were looking pretty sweet for the National Rifle Association in 2016. Thanks in part to a presidential…

On Thursday, the President Trump—who often boasts about scoring a “perfect 100” on the S.A.T. (please don’t tell…

On Tuesday, at the end of the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh’s possible…

While it is true that the U.S. Constitution does not mention race, in 1857, United States Supreme Court Justice…

Why anyone would believe anything Donald Trump says is beyond me. I mean, it has been proved that the president has…

To many, Kanye West is merely an egomaniacal rapper. To others, he’s a powerful black force with T’Challa-like…

If you had to make a list of the top 10 people whose opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. you could have gone the rest…

In the 24 hours it takes for this column to be written, edited, copy edited and uploaded to The Root and to end up…

After more than two centuries of providing America with classics like the AR-15-style assault weapon used to mow…